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A little treat this evening for you, folks. I’m always really put off by the comparisons of Norman Bates to Ed Gein - or more so, any overt suggestions that the character of Norman Bates and the entire plot of Psycho is ripped directly from the Ed Gein case. So let’s do a little digging for fun!

“But Mr Based!” I hear you cry, “the Wikipedia production segment for Psycho contradicts the first screenshot!”

Yeah, you’re right, it does. Sure, it says “loosely based”, but it’s giving a lot of wiggle room on what Bloch actually absorbed into his work. Let’s check out the sources on the production page for the film here.

So the sources are, some random click bait article that wants you to buy Amazon Prime and also has absolutely nothing of value to say on the topic, and this book that has only this statement:

Weird. And totally irrelevant.

The original source for the Bloch quote on the first screenshot that Wikipedia uses is this archived page, which itself claims it sources the quotations from Douglas Winter’s Faces of Fear 1985. This page more carefully suggests that Psycho was based only on the circumstances of the murders, not Gein himself as an individual.

If we pull up Faces of Fear, we can find this:

It seems I’ve ran out of links to add, but the book is readily available on the Internet Archive library. Unfortunately, this is the only paragraph in the book that mentions Ed Gein, and these quotes from the website, and which also appear on Wikipedia, aren’t present in the book at all.

So where the heck do they actually come from?

Well, it seems they come from Robert Bloch’s autobiography, Once Around the Bloch, 1993, which is also on the Internet Archive.

So what do I find?

And there you go! Norman Bates, at least Robert Bloch’s version of him, is not based on Ed Gein. The contextual influence of Gein’s crimes definitely contributed to the creation of the book, but all the coincidences that make the two topics seem so closely narratively intertwined are exactly that: Coincidences.

Anyway, hope that was fun guys! Can you tell I’m awful bored today? Also, Wikipedia often sucks, and the issue is amplified ten times on sources for Anthony Perkins, so do your research ^_^

#psycho #Anthony Perkins #Tony Perkins #Robert Bloch #Alfred Hitchcock #ed Gein

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which of Tony’s movies did you hate but watched only for him?

thenextheraldmage

The Ghost Writer, a failed 1988 sitcom pilot where Tony played Anthony Strack, bestselling horror author, who has recently remarried. There's a strong lean on his Psycho fame, of course, because "Norman Bates in a sitcom" needed to happen, rather than being a concept cursed by the gods themselves. It was released to an uninterested and undeserving public in 1990, getting a whopping 692nd place in the ratings. Because it's 1988/1990, the winking, jokey references to Tony's sexuality were not off the table, particularly regarding the goth teen son Edgar, who enjoys being spanked...just, great news all around for Hollywood's underprivileged descending wa community (the technical term for the "sad trombone" sound effect.) The titular ghost is Anthony Strack's jealous former wife, come back from the dead as an articulated skeleton puppet in a bridal gown! Sample attempted laugh line: "I see how it is. You won't kiss a dead person. And you call yourself a liberal!" Again, why this isn't lost media is anybody's guess. One of the people behind the scenes on it was David DeCoteau, who's known for A Talking Cat?!?, Santa's Summer House, and a ton of m/m softcore porn. Exterior shots of his glass-and-cement hunk of a mansion show up in almost all of his movies, which I wouldn't bring up, except that it's also the exterior shot of Strack's mansion in The Ghost Writer. Talk about your awkward signals!

Destroyer, which was also written, shot, produced, edited, and released to an indifferent public in 1988. Tony played Robert Edwards, bitchy horror director. And, yes, he brought along the descending was for a cameo when the effects guy messes up the squib and the blood spurts. Tony looks like he's on the verge of hysterically laughing or dying of embarrassment simultaneously in every single scene he's got in that movie. Also, he's in the same warm tweed as he was when he played Anthony Strack. Like, noticeably the same. At one point, Tony's character swears "Cecil-B.-de-fuckin'-Mille!" He is not in nearly enough of that movie. Swearing by de Mille, an architect of Old Hollywood, feels so right to Tony, too.

To clarify, Destroyer (1988) is far worse than The Ghost Writer (1988/1990), but I have more to say about the latter.

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Bonus hatred: Richard Chamberlain in King Solomon's Mines (1985) and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986), two Cannon movies filmed back to back, and so reprehensible that I can only watch them in segments of eight to eleven minutes. Eight minutes when it's bad and horrifically racist, eleven minutes when it's still bad, but Richard Chamberlain is blasting away Nazis, so that's appreciated.

#I still haven’t mustered the courage for Destroyer #I’m still recovering from losing my Edge of Sanity virginity #if I have to add again since I’m SURE I’ve contributed to this post before #Loving Molly was a drag and a half

Thank you for uploading the book version of The Fool Killer to the Internet Archive, it was much appreciated.

I would like to ask your opinion, as a leading Perkins scholar: Do you think Banjo ran that house?

1. You’re welcome! As it happens, not long after I uploaded it, someone else uploaded their copy in higher resolution, so I felt slightly snubbed 😅 still, my copy has a kangaroo on it, so can I really be that mad?

2. Absolutely. There isn’t a ton of info out there about Mr Banjo or really any of Tony’s pets (he had a handful of dogs over his lifetime as well, including Punky).

The photo of Banjo on Tony’s shoulder is from 1958, and the photo of him holding Banjo down is from 1967, so that’s at least 9 years, and since Banjo is clearly over a year old in the 1958 photo, he could’ve been 10 or 11 in 1967.

There isn’t any available documentation online (or in either of the two most popular biographies) on when Mr Banjo passed, so there’s a chance he lived into the seventies.

Still, with that estimate in mind, I would say Tony spent at least a decade of his life slaving to buy the best quality tinned mush for that cat. 🐈‍⬛

EDIT: Oh, and as an additional note, with these timeframes in consideration, he would’ve had to take Mr Banjo to France with him. That cat puppetmastered them both over the Atlantic for even higher quality European tinned mush.

#ask #anthony perkins #tony perkins #also there’s something quite satisfying at being even in jest referred to as a Perkins scholar considering my masters revolves around him #I still need to get around to compiling my papers into something that people online can read