Norman Bates… Hannibal Lecter… fictional characters fom the silver screen that have become household names and cultural icons. Hollywood’s glamorized, sensationalized, larger-than-life murderous antagonists are more popular than ever, and have become a staple of modern film… but are they accurate portrayals of true psychopaths?
This week we discussed Hollywood’s depictions of the psychopath in film and on television, and consulted with our very own Hollywood veteran Brian Frederick about the real psychopathic personalities working behind the scenes in the motion picture industry.