Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock never explicitly said his 1960 movie starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates was based on Gein's life. However, the movie is based on the 1959 horror novel "Psycho," by writer Robert Bloch. The novel came out two years after Gein's crimes made headlines.

How a seaside town, disoriented gulls and one master of suspense turned a freak 1961 event into cinematic terror.

Alfred Hitchcock was an undoubted master of cinema; here are his best works… When you’re a master of cinema with a resume that is stuffed with incredible movies, sometimes the hardest thing

Alfred Hitchcock directed a Jimmy Stewart movie that inspired one of Madonna’s songs. Madonna named her two favorite movies starring the acclaimed actor. The song she wrote received a different reception in the United States than many of her other singles.

Charlie Hunnam, 45, shed a whopping 30 pounds to portray infamous serial killer Ed Gein, who inspired the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. The new season of Monster has the Sons of Anarchy actor playing Gein,

Rear Window has a suspenseful story as its basis, but its set design and cinematography have made it one of the best examples of the suspense genre.