'Psycho' score fails to sell at London auction

A British auction house says it was unable to sell the score to Alfred Hitchcock's bloodcurdling movie "Psycho."

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Auctioneer to sell score to Hitchcock's 'Psycho'

The heart-stopping score to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," including the screeching music to the film's famous shower scene, is being put up for sale, British auction house Bonhams said Tuesday.

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5Top: Scary movies for the squeamish

Forget the buckets of blood. Fright fans who want to avoid the gore and still get thrills and chills can enjoy the pure fear factor of “The Haunting.” Based on Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel, “The Haunting of Hill House,” which follows an ill-fated paranormal investigation into a property that seen more than its fair share of tragic endings, this film relies on the audiences’ imagination to provide the best scares. Sure, there’s plenty of the unseen demon-in-the-dark action one expects from a haunted house story, but it’s the slow-building sinister vibe and anxious “oh-no-what’s-next?” feeling that’ll keep viewers up at night.

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EPHRATA, Pa., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania man has been charged with propositioning his estranged teenage daughter on Facebook in a message signed "Bad Daddy," police said Friday.

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A Massachusetts man who police say drove to Madison last week looking for a 17-year-old boy he met in an online game had an arsenal of weapons, restraints and rubber gloves in his vehicle when he was arrested Friday, Massachusetts State Police said.

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This was a rare type of murder, one where the victim's body was ritually posed after death. This is reminiscent of the BTK killings in Kansas city, KS. She was killed in a church on a Sunday, while she was preparing her sermon.

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An "insane asylum"-themed doughnut shop has enraged mental health campaigners who say the "biploar disorder" snacks are offensive. Jordan Zweigoron' Psycho Donuts shop has drawn criticism over the names of his snacks, including the massive head trauma doughnut.

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Pass the popcorn and don't spare the carnage -- the new issue of Entertainment Weekly reveals that women have now become the primary audience for horror flicks.

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Do you believe Limbaugh will have the courage to appear?

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Police have stopped a deranged man who ran amok while driving his tractor.

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De Nugent said he and other leaders in the white-power movement are distancing themselves from Poplawski, a man he calls a "loathsome, psychotic creep" because he allegedly killed three officers. "The one thing we don't want is a war with police," said de Nugent, who ran a write …

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Excerpt: Isn't it time we got over our fixation on slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony? Aren't there thousands of other crime stories that could be filling the airwaves and seizing our brain cells instead of this same old one over and over again?

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People who have survived severe trauma such as events during war, torture or sexual assault can experience after-effects, a condition called posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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There are a lot of things that make the life of a con artist a dubious career track — not the least being the risk that you'll get caught.

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The 29-year-old fervid fan of the psycho-slasher TV show "Dexter" is accused of luring now-missing Johnny Altinger to a garage and killing him in a scenario that resembled Twitchell's latest film project — in which a man is abducted, tortured, and hacked to bits.

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It could be a still-frame from an Alfred Hitchcock movie. The low vantage point, like that of his famous lighthouse, is as edgy as the Bates Motel. We are curious but not enough to go inside.

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We count down the films that still scare us silly...

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Police in Massachusetts are hunting a mysterious naked man, who was seen by several witnesses wandering around town wearing nothing but a gas mask.

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Is Dubya Fit for Office? Was He Ever Fit?

Given the recent reports on his contraction of Lyme disease, and his decision to hold it from the public for over a year "is Dubya fit for office?" Was he ever fit?

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You know, there's so much more you can be getting away with in life. There's no need to be so nice. Life is so much better when you're naughty. There was a time when we both thought life sucked. Men have broken our hearts. We've worked for absolute swines.

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A couple of high-lights (or lowlights): 'Poseidon', 'Planet of the Apes' and of course 'Pyscho'...

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The most ironic thing about this psycho's tirade is that his last name is "Wellman"!

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A SHOE fetishist who moved to London so he could mug women for their fashionable footwear has received a 12 month suspended jail sentence.

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This may be an old story, but it is still just as funny today as it was when Rick Reilly went for the ride of his lifetime on an F-14D Tomcat fighter jet.

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It is one of the most famous properties in Hollywood history. A dark, spooky house on a hill overlooking a shabby motel.

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OLYMPIA, Washington (AP) — A fierce group of raccoons has killed 10 cats, attacked a small dog and bitten at least one pet owner who had to get rabies shots, residents of Olympia say.

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OLYMPIA, Washington Aug 22, 2006 (AP)— A fierce group of raccoons has killed 10 cats, attacked a small dog and bitten at least one pet owner who had to get rabies shots, residents of Olympia say.

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I just liked the headline. Didn't read the article. Wonder if they're from outerspace?

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