Before 'Psycho,' This Is The Twisty Horror Thriller Hitchcock Wanted to Make

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This Twisty Horror Thriller Walked So ‘Psycho’ Could Run

The Big Picture Horror thrillers make for one of the best combo corners in all of film, with numerous underrated gems and celebrated classics filling the ranks. Between The Shining, The Sixth Sense, Suspiria, and Seven there are more than enough fantastic horror thrillers out there to get both genre's fans living in harmony under one roof. Despite there being a packed list of horror thriller bangers out there, none of them stack up to the best of the batch.

Alfred Hitchcock Apparently Missed an Opportunity to Make 'Les Diaboliques' A few years before adapting Psycho for the silver screen, it is rumored that Hitchcock was in pursuit of the film rights for the French novel, Celle qui n'était plus , by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcajec.

Robert Bloch, the Author of Psycho,' Was a Huge Fan of 'Les Diaboliques' Close Some might say that these structural and character similarities are merely coincidental, but Robert Bloch seems as though he would happily report otherwise. In a 1983 L'Ecran Fantastique interview, when asked about his familiarity with French authors, Bloch said "...my favorite horror film of all time is Diabolique. I think that is the epitome of what the horror film should be.

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