Norman Bates

Anthony Perkins was a shy and slender looking actor who would immortalize himself forever, if not become typecasted as the sinister Norman Bates. Norman was a lonely man who had a powerful mother fixation. This sort of tyrannical control would turn him into a vicious murderer who would forever send chills down the spines of many an audience in the Alfred Hitchcock master piece Psycho. The idea of a psychotic killer was used throughout history in many films to come.

Psycho (1960) Psycho 2 (1983) Psycho 3 (1986) Psycho 4 (1990)


M

Peter Lorre would begin his long career portraying a child killer in the 30's classic M. With its expressionistic style and dark settings, M would be remembered as one of the most chilling and frightening films to come out of Germany during the thirties. Like Anthony Perkins, Peter Lorre would forever become typecasted as sinister looking villians and with a voice that leant heavily to his villinous side, it is little wonder Lorre would be cast as a villian.

M (1930)


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