Robert Bloch Archives

Psycho (1960)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 6, 2001Psycho-Thriller

One of the defining classics of the genre, enormously influential, muchly imitated and parodied and possibly the most over-analysed film ever. Alfred Hitchcock expertly creates a creepy psycho-thriller in which he delights in lulling us and undermining expectation

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, …

Category: Horror

6 February 200124 October 2025 by Roog

Strait-Jacket (1964)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 6, 2004Psycho-Thriller

William Castle psycho-thriller made to exploit the successes of both PsychoWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with an axe-wielding Joan Crawford letting all stops go

Director: William Castle

Actors: Joan Crawford, George Kennedy, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, …

Category: Horror

6 April 200417 June 2021 by Roog

The Night Walker (1965)

Rating: ★★

Aug 9, 2003Dream Lover/Psycho-Thriller

William Castle psycho-thriller (from a Robert Bloch script) that creates an incredibly haunted mood between dream and reality only to fall apart in an absurdly contrived ending

Director: William Castle

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Lloyd Bochner, Hayden Rorke

Category: Horror

9 August 200321 June 2021 by Roog

The Skull (1965)

Rating: ★★

Aug 14, 2004The Marquis de Sade's Possessed Skull

Peter Cushing-Christopher Lee vehicle from Amicus with Cushing as a collector who obtains the Marquis de Sade's possessed skull. One of the more over-rated Anglo-horror films, this feels more like an episode from one of their anthologies than a full film

Director: Freddie Francis

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett

Category: Horror

14 August 20043 June 2023 by Roog

Torture Garden (1967)

Rating: ★★

Jun 28, 2002Horror Anthology

Following the success of Dr Terror's House of Horrors, this was the second of Amicus's trademark horror anthologies with Burgess Meredith as a carnival barker showing people their fates

Director: Freddie Francis

Actors: Peter Cushing, Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Michael Bryant, …

Category: Horror

28 June 200229 October 2025 by Roog

The Deadly Bees (1967)

Rating: ★

Mar 3, 2001Killer Bee Attacks

An Amicus film directed by Freddie Francis and with a script by Robert Bloch that proves the dictum that there is no such thing as a good killer bee movie

Director: Freddie Francis

Actors: Frank Finlay, Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, Michael Ripper, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

3 March 200126 March 2026 by Roog

The House That Dripped Blood (1970)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 24, 2002Horror Anthology

Another of the Amicus horror anthologies from a series of stories by Robert Bloch. An okay effort, mostly being remembered for Jon Pertwee's turn as a comic vampire

Director: Peter Duffell

Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jon Pertwee, John Bennett, …

Category: Horror

24 December 20025 November 2025 by Roog

Asylum (1972)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 1, 2002Horror Anthology

One of the best of the horror anthologies from UK’s Amicus Films. This adapts four stories from Robert Bloch, which are all tales told by the inmates of the titular asylum and settle in with chill effectiveness

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Actors: Robert Powell, Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, Britt Ekland, …

Category: Horror

1 April 200220 November 2025 by Roog

The Cat Creature (1973)

Rating: ★

Jul 29, 2014Ancient Egyptian Cat Vengeance Curse

TV movie about an Ancient Egyptian cat vengeance curse. The cast was culled from 1940s genre films and the material feels just as old despite a script from Psycho author Robert Bloch

Director: Curtis Harrington

Actors: Meredith Baxter, Gale Sondergaard, David Hedison, Stuart Whitman, …

Category: Horror

29 July 20146 October 2025 by Roog

The Dead Don’t Die (1975)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 30, 2019Film Noir/Voodoo Resurrected Dead

Largely forgotten tv movie from a Robert Bloch script. Curtis Harrington creates a fascinatingly creepy atmosphere that blends film noir with mysterious happenings involving voodoo and the resurrected dead

Director: Curtis Harrington

Actors: George Hamilton, Ray Milland, Ralph Meeker, Reggie Nalder, …

Category: Horror

30 January 201926 January 2026 by Roog

The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)

Rating: ★★

Jun 8, 1999Captain Nemo's Modern Day Adventures

TV mini-series released as a theatrical film in some parts of the world that resurrects Captain Nemo in the present-day. It is Irwin Allen returning to his tv roots where Captain Nemo’s adventures become a blatant attempt to copy Star Wars

Director: Alex March

Actors: Jose Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Tom Hallick, Burr DeBenning, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 June 199922 January 2023 by Roog

Three Dangerous Ladies (1988?)

Rating: ½

Apr 30, 2020Horror Anthology

Very obscure horror anthology re-edited from episodes of a Canadian tv series featuring names like John Hurt, Charles Gray and Keir Dullea.

Director: Alvin Rakoff, Don Thompson, Robert Fuest

Actors: John Hurt, Keir Dullea, Charles Gray, Ronee Blakely, …

Category: Horror

30 April 202022 October 2020 by Roog

Psycho (1998)

Rating: ★★

May 1, 1999Psycho Remake

Over Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, there hangs the single question of “Why?” The result seems a futile conceit, one only designed to infuriate those who regard the original in such high esteem

Director: Gus Van Sant

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, …

Category: Horror

1 May 199918 February 2025 by Roog