Editing Robert Bloch (section)

==Films==
{{category see also|Films based on works by Robert Bloch}}
The following is a list of films based on Bloch's work. For some of these he wrote the original screenplay; for others, he supplied the story or a novel (as in the case of ''Psycho'') on which the screenplay was based.

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| 1960 || ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'' || Director: [[Alfred Hitchcock]]. Based on Bloch's original novel but scripted by [[Joseph Stefano]].
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| rowspan="2" | 1962 || ''[[The Couch (film)|The Couch]]'' || Director: [[First Motion Picture Unit|Owen Crump]]. Screenplay by Bloch, based on a story by [[Blake Edwards]] and director Owen Crump. Bloch later novelized his own screenplay. Starring [[Grant Williams (actor)|Grant Williams]] and [[Shirley Knight]].
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|''[[The Cabinet of Caligari]]'' || Director: Roger Kay. The story of how director Roger Kay tried to rob Bloch of the writing credit for the film and of how Bloch won out is told in Bloch's autobiography. Starring [[Glynis Johns]] and [[Dan O'Herlihy]].<ref>''Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography'' (1993), pp. 258–62, 264–68.</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | 1964 || ''[[Strait-Jacket]]'' || Director: [[William Castle]]. Original screenplay by Bloch. The first of his two screenplays for director William Castle. Starring [[Joan Crawford]] and [[Diane Baker]].
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|''[[The Night Walker (film)|The Night Walker]]'' || Director: [[William Castle]]. Original screenplay by Bloch. The second of two screenplays for director William Castle. The screenplay was later novelized by Sidney Stuart (a pseudonym of [[Michael Avallone]]), with an introduction by Bloch. (''The Night Walker'', Award Books, Dec 1964. {{No ISBN}}; Award KA124F). Starring [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]].
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| 1965 || ''[[The Skull (film)|The Skull]]'' || Director: [[Freddie Francis]]. The first of Bloch's six films made for [[Amicus Productions]]. Based on Bloch's story ''The Skull of the Marquis de Sade'' but scripted by [[Milton Subotsky]]. 
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| 1966 || ''[[The Psychopath (1966 film)|The Psychopath]]'' || Director: [[Freddie Francis]]. 2nd of Bloch's Amicus films. Original screenplay by Bloch. Starring [[Patrick Wymark]].
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| rowspan="2" | 1967 || ''[[The Deadly Bees]]'' || Director: [[Freddie Francis]]. 3rd of Bloch's Amicus films. Screenplay by Bloch based on [[Gerald Heard]]'s ''A Taste of Honey''. Starring [[Suzanna Leigh]].
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|''[[Torture Garden (film)|Torture Garden]]'' || Director: [[Freddie Francis]]. 4th of Bloch's Amicus films. Screenplay by Bloch based on four of his stories, including ''The Man Who Collected Poe'' (about [[Edgar Allan Poe]]). Starring [[Jack Palance]] and [[Burgess Meredith]].
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| rowspan="2" | 1971 || ''[[The House That Dripped Blood]]'' || Director: [[Peter Duffell]]. 5th of Bloch's Amicus films. Screenplay by Bloch based on four of his stories (except that Russ Jones adapted ''Waxworks'', uncredited). Starring [[Christopher Lee]] and [[Peter Cushing]].
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|''[[Journey to Midnight]]'' || [TV movie] Director: [[Roy Ward Baker]]. This was one of four "fix-up" films which twinned episodes from the 1968–69 British TV anthology series ''[[Journey to the Unknown]]'', produced by Hammer for screening as TV movies in the USA. These "fix-up" TV movies had new segment introduction footage provided by actors [[Patrick McGoohan]], [[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]] and [[Joan Crawford]] serving as hosts; Cabot provided the intro segment for ''Journey to Midnight''. Bloch's contribution was "The Indian Spirit Guide" alongside a non-Bloch episode, "Poor Butterfly".
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| 1972 || ''[[Asylum (1972 horror film)|Asylum]]'' || Director: [[Roy Ward Baker]]. 6th and final of Bloch's Amicus films. Screenplay by Bloch based on four of his stories. The screenplay was novelized by [[William Joseph Johnston (novelist)|William Johnston]] (''Asylum'', Bantam Books, Dec 1972. {{No ISBN}}; Bantam 9195). Note: Bloch's story "Lucy Comes to Stay", one of the four stories incorporated in the film can be found reprinted in [[Peter Haining (author)|Peter Haining]] (ed) ''Ghost Movies: Classics of the Supernatural'', Severn House, 1995 as "Asylum". Starring [[Peter Cushing]] and [[Britt Ekland]].
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| 1973 || ''[[The Cat Creature]]'' || [TV movie] Director: [[Curtis Harrington]]. Original teleplay by Bloch, based upon a story by himself, [[Douglas S. Cramer]] and Wilfred Lloyd Baumes. The first of his two teleplays for director Harrington. Starring [[Meredith Baxter]], [[David Hedison]], [[Gale Sondergaard]], [[John Carradine]], [[Keye Luke]], [[Kent Smith]], [[John Abbott (actor)|John Abbott]], [[Stuart Whitman]] and "[[Peter Lorre Jr.]]" (actually Eugene Weingand, an unrelated imposter once taken to court by Lorre for illegal use of his name).<ref>Michael Weldon. ''The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film''. London: Plexus, 1989, p. 109</ref>
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| 1975 || ''[[The Dead Don't Die (1975 film)|The Dead Don't Die]]'' || [TV movie] Director: [[Curtis Harrington]]. Teleplay by Bloch based on his story which first appeared in ''Fantastic Adventures'' in July 1951. The second of his two teleplays for director Harrington. Starring [[Ray Milland]], [[George Hamilton (actor)|George Hamilton]] and [[Joan Blondell]].
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| 1978 || ''[[The Return of Captain Nemo]]'' || [TV miniseries] Director: Alex March. Also released theatrically as ''The Amazing Captain Nemo''. Bloch penned one episode,"Atlantis Dead Ahead", in collaboration with Larry Alexander. Starring [[José Ferrer]] and [[Burgess Meredith]].
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| 1998 || ''[[Psycho (1998 film)|Psycho]]'' || Director: [[Gus Van Sant]]. A remake of the Hitchcock film based on Bloch's original novel.
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