Bloch and Hitchcock

Inside Psycho

Wondery

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Vera Miles, Norman Bates, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Documentary, Film History

4.5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When a struggling writer, Robert Bloch, discovers the story of a strange man in Wisconsin who killed and mutilated his victims, he transforms it into a story about the twisted relationship between a man and his mother: Psycho. Later, he realizes his fictions come closer to the dark truth than he ever could have imagined. That’s when his book is optioned by an anonymous Hollywood buyer for next to nothing.

That buyer turns out to be Alfred Hitchcock. We meet Hitch on his deathbed, rewind through key moments, and end with Hitch savoring only one of the 2,400 submissions his office had reviewed. This would be his next picture: Psycho.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Inside Psycho, add free on Amazon music.
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0:07.0	From Wundry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is part two of Inside Psycho. Oh, There's an old fable that speaks to the soul of everyone who chooses the struggling solitary life of a writer.
0:48.8	A gaunt wolf was almost dead with hunger when he met a house dog who was passing by.
0:55.0	Ah, cousin, said the dog, look at you, your irregular life will be the ruin of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do and get your food regularly given to you?
1:08.0	I would love that said the wolf but where? Follow me, said the dog.
1:14.0	Come with me to my master and you shall share my work.
1:18.0	So the wolf and the dog went towards the town together.
1:22.0	On the way, the wolf noticed that the hair around the dog's neck was worn away.
1:28.0	How did that happen? asked the wolf.
1:31.0	Oh, it is nothing, said the dog.
1:33.0	That is only the place where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up.
1:38.0	It chafes a bit, but one soon gets used to it.
1:47.0	Is that all, said the wolf?
2:07.0	Then goodbye to you, Master Dog. Listen as I launch a campaign against Christmas cheer, grilling celebrity guests, like chestnuts on an open fire. They'll try to get my heart to grow a few sizes, but it's not going to work, honey.
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2:18.0	When he was a kid, Robert Block devoured every issue of a fantasy and horror fiction magazine called
2:24.7	Weird Tales.
2:27.2	One of the leading writers for that magazine was horror legend
2:30.5	H.P. Lovecraft. What was it about Lovecraft that captured Block's imagination?
2:37.0	Was it the sense that the ordinary all around us masked something dark and dangerous,
2:42.0	something evil? something
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