So you wanna be a horror superstar? You wanna live large? Well just remember what Eminem says in that song -- like a hit record, a hit movie don't last long, The premieres don't last forever, so you gotta keep stackin' them chips. Sadly for many in the fear industry, those stacks are small and don't buy that many boxes of mac and cheese.

A few months back, we took a look at some horror icons and their new careers, showing you the new lives of Puppetmaster Anton Toulon, Basket Case twins Duane and Belial, American Psycho Patrick Bateman and Shocker's Horace Pinker. But this is an industry with thousands of films, and nothing can stop the march of time: Many A-list horror heroes drift away from the movie biz.

Norman Bates (Psycho), Hotel-Industry Executive
A little mental illness? Child, please. It takes more than that to keep a good momma's boy down. Bates did several months of therapy, got himself a whup-ass lawyer and was out on parole in less than a year. So what do you do with all that motel experience? You move it on up and get into chains: Bates is an executive with the Motel 6 chain. He even got into advertising -- he pitched the campaign that went, "I'm Tom Bodette, and we'll slice open your throat for ya." Well, sure, they changed the ending, but that line was mostly Bates'.

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