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FIlmmaker Osgood Perkins is delivering his next horror movie later this year. To tease its arrival, an eerie teaser trailer has just been released.

From Neon, Keeper is slated for a release on Nov. 14, 2025. For Perkins, it's a follow-up to The Monkey, the Stephen King adaptation the filmmaker released earlier this year. Perkins is also known for helming Longlegs, last year's horror thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a serial killer. Now, fans can see what he's got up his sleeve next by checking out the new trailer for Keeper below.

There's still a lot that's not known about Keeper, which is being touted as a "dark trip from Osgood Perkins," and the teaser doesn't exactly share a lot of info about the plot. It does feature some shots of the movie's various characters, and the imagery seems to get increasingly more disturbing. A woman can be heard saying close to the end of the video,...

Osgood Perkins is staying in business with Neon, the indie outfit that released his features Longlegs and The Monkey and helped crown him as Hollywood’s latest horror maestro.

Perkins has signed a first-look deal with Neon and launched a new banner called Phobos, which he will run partner Chris Ferguson. Under the deal, Neon will serve as the home for Perkins’ projects, which he and Ferguson will produce. It will also allow Perkins and Ferguson to produce other filmmakers’ movies for Neon. Neon will release these projects theatrically in the United States and represent international rights.

Perkins will continue to produce projects with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Range.

The moves come after the 2024 serial killer thriller Longlegs supercharged Perkins’ career. It earned strong reviews and $128 million globally on a $10 million budget. Its $75 million domestic haul made it the top grossing independent film of the year.

Neon and Perkins followed it...

The 26th James Bond movie will be the first to be made under the new creative direction of Amazon MGM Studios. Longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have signed off on a new deal that will allow Amazon MGM to take complete creative control of the franchise moving forward, but it remains to be seen how the movie series will be different as a result.

Meanwhile, while many talents in Hollywood are excited about possibly becoming a part of the franchise, don't count on seeing Osgood Perkins in the mix to direct. Perkins, the son of Hollywood legends Anthony Perkins and Berry Berenson, has drawn high acclaim with his recent horror films, Longlegs and The Monkey. In a recent Reddit Ama, Perkins was asked if he would direct James Bond 26, and his response made it clear he won't even consider it.

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Osgood Perkins, the visionary filmmaker behind last year’s creepy-as-hell “Longlegs,” still remembers the first time he was exposed to Stephen King’s macabre world.

He was a kid and his parents (actor Anthony Perkins and actress Berry Berenson) had left him with a babysitter. He crept downstairs and what he saw horrified and delighted him. It was “Salem’s Lot,” the 1979 CBS miniseries by “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” auteur Tobe Hooper, based on King’s beloved 1975 novel. He vividly remembers – still – the little vampire kid floating outside the window.

And now, with “The Monkey,” his adaptation of King’s 1980 short story (collected in “Skeleton Crew” in 1985), Perkins has made something that will traumatize an entirely new generation of curious kids with sleepy babysitters.

Perkins said that James Wan, the director of “The Conjuring” and “Saw,” and his producing partner at Atomic Monster, had held the rights to the story for a long time.

The Monkeywriter and director Osgood Perkins opens up about the close-to-home inspirations for the film.

Speaking to Variety, Perkins openly discussed his personal relationship with death, specifically the deaths of his parents, Psycho star Anthony Perkins and model Berry Berenson, who passed from AIDs and as a passenger on one of the flights tragically hijacked on September 11, 2001, respectively. "I'm certainly writing from an autobiographical place, given that I sustained some pretty insane kind of deaths in my life," Perkins said.

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Osgood "Oz" Perkins, the director of the recently released Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, has a pretty particular take on horror. The Monkey is an adaptation of King's short story of the same name published in the anthology Skeleton Crew, but it's nonetheless a very original horror comedy made by a filmmaker who understands genre tropes and subverts them. In 2024, Longlegs terrified everyone with a bleak twist on serial killer horror tropes. Thus, many would think that the director of these films (and The Blackcoat's Daughter and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House) is really into the horror genre. They would be wrong.

Perkins insists he's not into the horror genre, telling IndieWire:

"The way I have come to look at my trajectory, if anybody gives a f*ck about my trajectory, it's born into horror, right? Born into a royal family of horror, right?...

The Legally Blonde‘s Dorky David actor Osgood Perkins, is now a celebrated filmmaker and has one of the most wickedly brilliant minds in Hollywood. And if movies like The Monkey and Longlegs are any indication, his imagination knows no bounds, and that is exactly what the industry needs right now. Though he’s been in the industry for years, his name exploded overnight following the success of Longlegs, starring Nicolas Cage.

Nicolas Cage in Longlegs | Credits: C2 Motion Picture Group

But rather than taking the mainstream route or diving into superhero films, Perkins is now fully committed to bringing his eerie, unconventional visions to life. And honestly, that’s exactly why fans can’t wait to see what he does next. Here’s what he had to say about his approach and what’s coming up in the years ahead!

Osgood Perkins on how Longlegs‘ surprise success turned his world upside down!

This article contains spoilers for "The Monkey."

Although it's still possible to get into the weeds when discussing auteur theory, it's generally become accepted that directors, especially if they're also acting as their own screenwriters, have a large degree of creative control over their films. As such, it's possible to find common threads that connect a certain filmmaker's work, whether those threads are thematic, stylistic, or some combination of the two. For example, think of the Stanley "Kubrick stare," the Spike Lee floating dolly shot, Alfred Hitchcock and voyeurism, Steven Spielberg and father figures, and so on. Some directors may seem easier to clock than others, of course, especially if they exclusively or generally work within a particular genre. Yet even those who remain in one genre can contain as much artistic diversity as those who attack a wide range of subject matter.

Take, for instance, Osgood Perkins. As a filmmaker,...

Osgood Perkins has guts – literally and metaphorically. The filmmaker knew it wouldn’t work to be precious when adapting “The Monkey,” a short story by Stephen King, hitting theaters Friday. So Perkins held nothing back. “You can’t worry about offending an audience; you can’t focus on honoring it too closely,” he notes. “There’s no pandering going on. There’s no timid storytelling. You have to have the guts to execute it.” He means it physically as well — his effects artists developed objects referred to as “guts cannons” and trucks loaded full of blood to kill people in increasingly gory and creative ways.

It’s a faster pace for Perkins, who has mastered the art of discomfort with slow-burn, atmospheric films like last year’s hit “Longlegs.” And the plot is simple: Theo James stars as twins whose lives have been cursed by the existence of a wind-up toy monkey that,...

Last summer, when Osgood “Oz” Perkins’ Longlegs grossed nearly $127 million against a sub-$10 million budget, the writer-director had already wrapped its two follow-ups for Neon. The Monkey, which opens in theaters on Feb. 21, was actually the third film he shot in his recent genre trio that includes the aforementioned Longlegs and October 2025’s Keeper. Producers James Wan (via Atomic Monster) and Peter Safran (via Tsc) approached Perkins about adapting Stephen King’s short story about a lethal toy monkey, but the stern tone of the existing script on file was at odds with the filmmaker’s own instincts for such a movie.

Consequently, Perkins decided to pursue the subgenre of horror-comedy, which tends to be a tough sell within the studio system. That proved to be the case once more when a major studio balked at his tragicomedy take. (One can surmise that The Monkey was originally at WB/New...

Writer-director Osgood Perkins follows up horror hit Longlegs with a tiresome, juvenile adaptation of a Stephen King short story about an evil toy monkey

“Everybody dies and that’s fucked up” is the tagline and emo ethos of snarky Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, a film about the inescapable inevitability yet goofy silliness of death. The writer-director Osgood Perkins, who scored a hit with last year’s Longlegs, knows more about it than most. His father, the actor Anthony Perkins, died of Aids when Osgood was 18 and then his mother, the actor and model Berry Berenson, died in the September 11 attacks as a passenger on Flight 11. Perkins has found a way to work through something so unimaginably awful with a career as a horror film-maker, and his latest, focused on twins cursed by generational trauma is his most obviously personal film yet.

To his credit, Perkins has chosen not to...

Can you blame Oz Perkins for feeling cursed? The eldest son of Hollywood icon Anthony Perkins, the actor turned director lost his famously closeted father at an early age to AIDS. Less than a decade later, his mother, actress and model Berry Berenson, perished aboard American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Well acquainted with death and its cruelest deprivations, Perkins’s work is in conversation with itself on the nature of trauma as inheritance, from his boarding school-set debut feature, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, to Longlegs, in which Nicolas Cage’s serial killer functions as an agent of the chaos wrought by parental malfeasance. But with The Monkey, it feels as if Perkins is finally moving on by throwing his hands up in a riot of entrails and arterial spray.

In 1999, twin brothers Hal and Bill (Christian Convery) discover a toy monkey among their absent father’s belongings. The...

Stephen King's novels have been adapted many times, and the author didn't have a hard time revealing he disagreed with some adaptations. One of his upcoming adaptations is The Monkey, which makes a big change from the source material.

The Monkey comes from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins and will star The White Lotus Season 2 star Theo James in a dual role as twin brothers Hal and Bill. The adaptation is based on King's 1980 short story but, outside from the typical blood and gore of the genre, Osgood added some dark comedy. In an interview with Empire, via ScreenRant, Perkins described his approach to The Monkey and King's response to his changes.

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The upcoming Stephen King adaptation has Longlegs director Osgood "Oz" Perkins at the helm, who promises a lot of gore.

The Longlegs director further explained that,...

The Monkey director Osgood Perkins reveals why he changed Stephen King's story into a comedy and what the author's reaction was. Based on King's 1980 horror short story, the upcoming movie stars Theo James as twin brothers Hal and Bill, following the characters as they experience a series of shocking deaths after they discover their father's toy monkey. As is revealed in The Monkey's trailer, Perkins has added a great deal of dark comedy to the original King story, in addition to an abudance of blood and gore.

In a recent interview with Empire, Perkins breaks down his approach to The Monkey, affirming that his take on the story is very different from the source material. "I took liberties like a motherf--ker," he says. He reveals that James Wan's production company, Atomic Monster, optioned the rights to King's story several years ago, and that they approached him to direct it.

Stephen King's delightfully screwed-up stories have been getting the big screen treatment since 1976, but not a single adaptation over the past 49 years looks quite like "The Monkey." That's likely because none of those other movies had Oz Perkins, the creative horror mastermind behind movies like the trippy Nicolas Cage-starrer "Longlegs" and the terrifying slow-burn "The Blackcoat's Daughter," behind the camera. Perkins is clearly suited to the absurdity of the King short story, which was featured in his 1985 book "Skeleton Crew." In the latest issue of Empire magazine, the filmmaker draws direct parallels between the story's cursed toy and his own strange, tragic family life.

Perkins tells the outlet that "The Monkey" actually already had a "very serious script" when he joined the project, one provided by James Wan's Atomic Monster production company. "I felt it was too serious, and I told them: 'This doesn't work for me,...

Director and actor Oz Perkins has been in the Hollywood news in recent years, but those who have followed him from the beginning will remember one of his earliest roles, that of Dorky David Kidney in Legally Blonde. Legally Blonde may not be Reese Witherspoon's breakout performance, but it's the film that rocketed her to mainstream stardom and the movie that began a franchise of idyllic, charming, and unexpectedly complex Legally Blonde movies, a TV show, and even a musical.

The first film features an impressive cast, including a relatively unknown Osgood "Oz" Perkins as Dorky David Kidney. These days, Oz Perkins is known for his directing, but in a previous life, he was a fairly prolific TV and movie actor who got his acting career started in the 1983 sequel, Psycho II, as a young Norman Bates. Perkins comes from Hollywood royalty. His father is actor Anthony Perkins, his mother is actress Berry Berenson,...

[This story contains spoilers for Longlegs.]

Nobody has had a career quite like Alicia Witt. From avenging House Atreides at age eight in David Lynch’s Dune to her standout role as Ruth Harker in Osgood “Oz” Perkins’ Longlegs, Witt has been a prolific performer across film and television for four decades, all while balancing an accomplished music career at the very same time.

Longlegs came Witt’s way roughly a year after she suffered the tragic dual loss of her parents in December 2021. That was the same year in which she also battled, and eventually overcame, a cancer diagnosis. So, with that unimaginable context in mind, a number of actors, understandably, wouldn’t have entertained the idea of playing a single mother who wipes out entire families in order to satisfy the devil and protect their own daughter in the process. But, oddly enough, Witt found the entire experience to be cathartic, having learned long...

A lot of horror movies nowadays try to build up hype with critics claiming that they’re “one the scariest movies ever” or “the scariest movie since The Exorcist.” And while that buzz is similarly surrounding Longlegs, the marketing for the film alone is certainly making an impression that sets it apart from the others. In the review from our own Chris Bumbray, he explains that the film lives up to a lot of the claims, “Once the credits rolled, I found myself surprisingly shaken up by what I’d just seen, and it’s a film I’ll need to chew on in the coming weeks. Expect this one to make major waves among horror fans when it opens on July 12th. Will it be considered a new classic? Time will tell, but for me, this was a pretty dazzling piece of work.”

Longlegs director Osgood Perkins has close ties with the horror game,...

Oz Perkins, also credited as Osgood Perkins, is a contemporary horror filmmaker with a very distinctive style. His films take ... their ... time. They gradually sink their teeth into you, building suspense slowly until the very last moments of the film, leaving a stinging bite that is hard to forget. Using ambient soundscapes and an often plodding pace, Perkins infuses his films with an existential dread. He artfully plays with light and shadow, crafting very well-composed shots that more often resemble a painting. Perkins uses the camera as his paintbrush, employing techniques like wide angles, low angles, and tracking shots to create a very dynamic palette. Gruesome violence is often presented in a mundane, almost everyday manner. His filmography requires the utmost patience, but it creeps and crawls in the subtlest of ways.

In an interview with MovieMaker magazine, Oz Perkins stated, "Horror movies are self-help movies about dealing with death.

With review quotes claiming a film that is “nerve-shredding”, so scary you might pass out and a “perfect horror experience” it’s safe to say that Longlegs, written and directed by Osgood Perkins, is one of the most anticipated horrors of the year.

As the son of Norman Bates himself, actor Anthony Perkins, and photographer and actress Berry Berenson, who stared in the 1982 Cat People remake, you would hope Osgood’s horror credentials were legit.

Starting out as an actor, Osgood’s first credit was an inspired yet nepotistic piece of casting, turning up as the Young Norman in Psycho II alongside dear old dad and carrying on with bit parts in Six Degrees of Separation, Secretary and Legally Blonde.

Moving behind the camera he penned and directed chillers The Blackcoat’s Daughter and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, following this by directing a twisted take...

Osgood Perkins, director of Longlegs, explains why he doesn't watch modern horror movies. Neon's cryptic marketing campaign has made Longlegs one of the most anticipated films of the year. Perkins' unique eye for horror extends to his upcoming film, The Monkey, described as a comedic take on death.

Osgood Perkins is the director of multiple horror films, including one of this year's most anticipated new releases, Longlegs. The filmmaker comes from a family with a prolific history in Hollywood; his parents were actors Berry Berenson and Anthony "Norman Bates" Perkins. It seemed only natural that Perkins' career might be based on scary movies. The weird thing is that the filmmaker isn't interested in watching modern horror movies.

Perkins' latest is the mysterious horror thriller Longlegs, starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage. Not much is known about the film, but it's already being hailed as this year's most terrifying film experience,...

Longlegs’ Osgood “Oz” Perkins is remarkably even-keeled for a filmmaker who’s enjoying the finest reviews of his career. His Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage-led horror-thriller has been the talk of the town for months now, as Neon’s marketing department has put together one of the more inspired promotional campaigns in recent memory. They’ve made Perkins’ fourth feature feel like a buzzy event film à la the work of his friend and collaborator, Jordan Peele, and the creepy procedural about an FBI agent’s (Monroe) self-actualizing pursuit of a Satanic serial killer (Cage) is more than worthy of that treatment. (Perkins played director Fynn Bachman in Peele’s Nope.)

Perkins’ Longlegs enters into theaters on Friday, joining Ti West’s MaXXXine, which bowed last weekend. The two genre pics share a rather interesting connection in that MaXXXine features a couple sequences involving the Psycho set on the Universal Studios backlot.

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You won’t have seen much of Nicolas Cage in the terrific marketing for Longlegs, but you may have heard his character’s breathy, eerie voice: “I know you’re not afraid of a little bit of dark,” he intoned in a trailer released in June. “Because you are the dark.”

In a new – and terrific – interview with The New Yorker, Cage talks about his career to date, and touches on the title character in Longlegs, who he says is “nothing like anyone I’ve played before.”

The conversation is all the more fascinating given that it’s with Susan Orlean, the author and journalist who wrote the book on which Charlie Kaufman’s 2002 comedy Adaptation was (very) loosely based. Midway through the interview, Cage talks about Longlegs,...

Osgood Perkins can’t avoid the associations of being a horror director who is also the son of Anthony Perkins, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock‘s “Psycho” as a cross-dressing, mother-obsessed murderer. The filmmaker, who as an actor had a small role in the “Psycho” sequel from 1983 as a kid and then most memorably as an adult in “Legally Blonde” as Elle Woods’ dorky classmate, has made original horror on introspective terms for the past decade.

There was the stylish dark academia giallo “The Blackcoat’s Daughter” in 2015, followed by “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House” for Netflix and the Brothers Grimm adaptation “Gretel & Hansel.” His latest film, his first of three set up at Neon, is “Longlegs,” starring “It Follows” scream queen Maika Monroe as a tortured FBI agent on the trail of a Satan-worshipping serial killer. He’s played by Nicolas Cage in bulbous...

Exclusive: In a pre-emptive deal, Neon has acquired rights to Osgood Perkins’ (Longlegs) next genre movie Keeper, which will star Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and Rossif Sutherland (Possessor).

Neon will distribute in the U.S. and handle international sales rights to the film in Cannes, with Elevation Pictures set to distribute in Canada. Perkins directs from a screenplay written by Nick Lepard. Chris Ferguson and Jesse Savath of Oddfellows will produce.

Keeper follows a couple as they escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm (Sutherland) suddenly returns to the city, Liz (Maslany) finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that unveils the cabin’s horrifying secrets.

Executive producers include Tatiana Maslany; Marlaina Mah for Oddfellows; Noah Segal and Laurie May for Elevation Pictures; Brian Kavanaugh Jones; Fred Berger and Peter Micelli on behalf of Range Media Partners; John Hegeman and Vince Totino...

Alfred Hitchcock’s films have been some of the iconic films that have shaped the genre of suspense thrillers. He is known as the Master of Suspense, and his filmography as a director has been an inspirational one. Films such as To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho have been considered his best films.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is potentially the best suspense horror/thriller film

The latter is his most popular film featuring one of cinema’s most feared antagonists, Norman Bates, played by Anthony Perkins. The actor also managed to earn an Oscar nomination for the 1956 film Friendly Persuasion. However, he held one secret about his sexuality due to the regressive ideologies of the 50s.

Anthony Perkins Hid the Fact That He Was Gay Throughout His Life Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

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Hollywood has always been a land of glitz, glamour, and larger-than-life personalities. But behind the dazzling smiles and carefully crafted images, many stars have harbored secrets, especially when it came to their love lives.

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

In a bygone era where societal norms and career pressures dictated who could love and be loved openly, some chose to live their most intimate relationships in the shadows. The world witnessed a myriad of clandestine love stories, where actors, musicians, and other luminaries grappled with the challenge of keeping their romantic lives away from the limelight.

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One poignant example of the struggles celebrities faced is the tragic story of Anthony Perkins, renowned for his iconic portrayal of Norman Bates in Psycho. Perkins, married to actor Berry Berenson,...

When Osgood Perkins was cast as a young Norman Bates in 1983’s “Psycho II,” he stepped into the iconic role that had catapulted his father, Anthony Perkins, to superstardom in 1960. While other roles followed in well-received films, including “Legally Blonde” and “Secretary,” Osgood, now 45, came to realize that acting was never his calling. The horror genre, however, most certainly was. So, he turned to writing and directing nail-biters that, like “Psycho,” are both suspenseful and character-driven.

His latest, “Gretel & Hansel,” in theaters on January 31, is a dark fantasy based on the Brothers Grimm tale. In the film, a teen Gretel played by Sophia Lillis (“It”) and younger bro Hansel, played by newcomer Sam Leakey, lose their way in a dark wood while foraging to help their poverty-stricken parents. But after stumbling upon the home of a witch, Holda, things go from bad to worse. Unlike traditional horror films that...

Halston with Liza Minnelli wearing an Elsa Peretti cuff Photo: Berry Berenson Perkins

In the second instalment of my conversation with Frédéric Tcheng we discuss Halston's relationship to Charles James and costume designer John David Ridge, Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, Studio 54, the Amazon director's cut, envisioning a miniseries "Mad Men with the fashion world and Halston at the centre", and an upcoming project.

Halston is a story of inclusion and exclusion. His models, the Halstonettes, included Pat Cleveland, Anjelica Huston, Heidi Goldberg, Karen Bjornson, Beverly Johnson, Nancy North, Chris Royer, Alva Chinn, Connie Cook, and Pat Ast. Halston made most of the masks for Truman Capote's legendary 1966 Black and White Ball - but wasn't officially invited. The fragrance, and the designs of the 1976 U.S. Olympic uniforms helped this important fashion designer spread his wings.

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On September 11, 2001, when I was driving, I received a message from my friend, Heather Mac Rae: “Sorry to hear about Berry Berenson, but she was in one of the planes that crashed into the trade towers.” Stunned, I pulled the car off the road and thought about what a good person Berry was and what a good friend she had been to many. She had suffered bravely through her husband, Tony Perkins, whom she had loved dearly and had given birth to his two strapping sons, Osgood...

Her father was scary. Vincent Gallo got vicious. And Jack Nicholson taught her never to give a brown present. Anjelica Huston tells John Patterson about a life among Hollywood royalty

The last time I met Anjelica Huston was six or seven years ago in a luxury oceanfront hotel in Venice, California. It was windy and cold, Huston was still a smoker – we talked outside in the wind while she lit up like a naughty schoolgirl. Today, it's a blisteringly hot day, she's an enviably youthful 60, an ex-smoker now, sitting in the lounge of the luxury hotel next door, before a gigantic cinemascope window affording guests a million-dollar view of the Pacific, which looks seriously tempting in today's heat.

"I went in the ocean this year, the day after my birthday," she tells me as we watch the breakers gently roll in, "and it was actually really nice. It's like the Eiffel Tower is for Parisians,...

Anthony Perkins made his film debut in The Actress (1953) in which he received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year and three years later he received an an Academy Award nomination for his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). Although Perkins specialized in playing many awkward young men, notably in Fear Strikes Out (1957), The Tin Star (1957), and Desire Under the Elms (1958), he will always be known best for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

The actor also went on to create a critically-acclaimed portrayal of Joseph K. in Orson Welles’ The Trial (1962) a cinematic adaptation of the novel by Franz Kafka, and in 1968 he took the role of a disturbed young murderer in Pretty Poison (1968), which served to affect the rest of his career. He would later find himself typecast, starring in the sequels and prequel to Psycho, including Psycho II, Psycho III (which he...

The widow of Psycho star Anthony Perkins was on board one of the planes which hit the World Trade Center yesterday. Actress and photographer Berry Berenson was married to the gaunt actor until his death from an Aids-related illness in 1992. She appeared in a number of films, including the 1982 version of Cat People, and was the sister of actress Marisa Berenson. Berenson, who married Perkins in 1973, was on board Flight 11 returning to her Hollywood Hills home after a holiday on Cape Cod. She also appeared in the 1978 film Remember My Name, which starred her husband, as well as the 1980 TV mini-series Scruples. Spokeswoman Susan Patricola says, "She was one of the loveliest, greatest people on the Earth, full of life."...