Psycho (1960)

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Oct 23 19:26

''A boy's best friend is his mother.'' A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. Anthony Perkins: Norman Bates Janet Leigh: Marion Crane Throughout his life, illustrious director Alfred Hitchcock thrilled and captivated audiences everywhere, but never before or since as well as he did with the psychological chiller, Psycho, which introduced the cinematic world to a guy named Norman Bates. And now nearly fifty years later even in an age of fading, worn out sensibilities, graphic horror and the likes of psychological Silence of the Lambs, and American Psycho, Hitchcock's masterpiece Psycho remains, even after repeated viewings, truly frightening and intrinsicall...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Oct 18 21:41

"Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies." Produced during the period when Alfred Hitchcock created his most gripping work, Psycho is the original archetypal horror movie and an essential piece of filmic history. It's the ultimate spine-tingler, the definitive slasher, and the perfect chiller. In the decades prior to helming Psycho, Hitchcock had delighted in astonishing and scaring audiences. However, never had Hitchcock engaged in full-on, straight-up horror until this macabre riposte to the schlock frighteners of the late 1950s. Psycho has been imitated often, but never surpassed. This is suitably evidenced by almost 50 years of slasher flicks (like John Carpenter's brilliant original Halloween and the crappy Friday the 13th series) including the film's own sequels (that...Read more

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago at Aug 26 16:32

''A boy's best friend is his mother'' A young lady, Marion,who decides to take $40,000 just recieved from a rich client goes on the run ending up taking refuge at a remote lonely motel and its creepy owner Norman Bates. Janet Leigh plays Marion Crane, wonderfully played and delivers a fine performing main iconic role. Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates is very seemingly charismatic on first impressions. Yet is very troubled and eccentric. Sneaky and sideways glancing. With his strange hobby of stuffing birds. All the characters are extremely detailed. The film has so many clever aspects. Atmospheric, orchestral, suspense, the music alone provides all of these essential key areas as well as the visual side. Then there's the mysterious, nagging, possessive m...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year ago at Jun 29 23:28

The artiest trash film, and my favorite Hitchcock film ever. By now everyone knows the bait-and-switch that Hitchcock had employed for this film -- the first 45 minutes (give or take) established a totally different film (but not less excellent), the big surprise, and the rest of the film is focused on the bad guy. Oh what a delicious bad guy he is too! Talk about a serious Oedipus complex! Anthony Perkins' clenched jaw and squinty eyes make him look like the most dangerous and disturbed nerdy boy ever. He might screw up your bank account, but he couldn't possibly kill you, right? Wrong. The most chilling part of the movie, for me, is the not the infamous shower scene, it's how proficiently and mechanically he cleans up the mess. When Janet Leigh's car is pulled up out of the swamp in the ...Read more