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Summary: The Movie That Cut Movie History In Half
Review: Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 gothic horror classic changed the way filmmakers viewed their occupation and enhanced film audiences expectations as far as what the movives could do. Before Psycho, Hollywood was in the dying days of the age of sentiment. Hollywood produced pictures that were sentimenal, emotional, and concerned about showcasing the human condition. Psycho with the savagry of Mother Bates butcher knife hacked through Hollywood sentiment and created the age of sensation. 60's movies such as Bonnie and Clyde, the Birds, Rosemary's Baby, Midnight Cowboy, Butch Cassady and the Sundance Kid, and the Wild Bunch are among many examples of how sixties filmmakers became liberated due to Hichcock's magnificant diffance of convential film guidelines with Psycho. As for the film's structure, musical accompaniment, direction, film editing, and acting performances, the film masterfully excels at all levels and is one of the important films in the last 100 years. The grandaddy of the modern horror movie and the inspiration for modern screen violence, Psycho is still a one of a kind Hitchcock masterwork. The DVD is exemplemary edition to your DVD or video collection.
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Summary: Psycho's still the greatest
Review: First of all, I'd like to start off by saying that, while I do love classic movies, I don't cosider myself an expert on cinema. The fact is that Hitchcock is the father of modern day horror movies. Yes, he wouldn't have made it in the ninties, but the entire horror movie genre owes everything it has got to him. As for those people who think that they are detectives by figuring out the killer is Norman Bates, well no sh**, Sherlock!
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Summary: I love Alfred Hitchcock!
Review: I love this movie! Alfred Hitcock is so cool! The ending is wonderful, too! Although, I can't say the shower scene was scary enough to make me scared to take a shower, as the older people who have seen it say.
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Summary: WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES!
Review: The grandfather of slasher horror films. Anthony Perkins delivers a chilling performance as Norman Bates. This film is based on Robert Bloch's 1959 novel. This is really a true classic and should belong to all serious horror fan and film buff's video collection. The remake could never out do this original classic.
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Summary: TERRORIZING
Review: Alfred Hitchock's best scary movies, which of course includes this one, are off-kilter; the pace sets your senses off but continually eludes them. With PSYCHO, he had the definite benefit of an astonishingly effective Anthony Perkins, who never again would be able to replicate a character with as much power. His Norman Bates has invaded our popular culture as THE definite creepy seductive/weird perfect maniac. The atmospheric sets, the lead-you-down-wrong-path opening, and of course the famous shower scene are merely parts of a masterful whole. This movie takes its sweet time, but the tension is nearly unbearable. And the Bernard Herrman score, which has been a standard by which to measure all horror movie scores by, provides the knots-in-your-emotion that is withheld by the players, and the seductively slow pace. Not a shot is wasted, not a word seems extraneous. It is, after all, a darkly terrifying thriller, and it means business. It lingers in the mind long after a first, and second, and third....viewing.
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Summary: Hard to follow but easier to swallow
Review: A devious office girl checks into a hidden motel after ripping a superior off of a large sum of money and deciding to return it, gets murdered instead. After a string of disappearences, some snoopy relatives find the motel. Usually one-glanced as an untouchable classic, some may see otherwise. The pace is too slow and the murder scenes aren't convincing enough. Also contains no suspence whatsoever. Black and white is good for this movie which the old timers will enjoy.
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Summary: What can I say, that hasn't already been said...
Review: I own the movie "Psycho". Being a movie buff, I wouldn't want to be without it. It has to go down as one of the most technically brilliant films ever made, as well as entertaining. Made on an uncharacteristically low budget by the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock, it was a bold directorial move, as Hitchcock was aging, and, frankly, many in the industry had already written him off as having passed his peak. He proved critics and naysayers wrong, with this, his most shocking film. I'm sure you all know the story by now, but in case you don't, here it is in a nutshell: Girl steals money, hides out in mysterious motel run by mysterious innkeeper with a sick old "mother", then she has an attack of conscience and decides to return the money and face the consequences. Until... On a technical scale, Hitch used his minimal budget as a means to draw on atmospheric effect by filming in shadow much of the time, and his utilization of startling camera angles with a quick-cut approach to editing reached its apex in one of the most famous scenes in movie history...the SHOWER SCENE. This film should be required viewing for all wanna-be film enthusiasts. It's one of the best movies ever made, and Anthony Perkins turns in a truly fascinating performance as Norman Bates.
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Summary: Psycho
Review: Psycho is a love it or hate it movie. For some the psychological elements may be hard to grasp. It is not the type of movie that will cause you to jump out of your heart, but keeps you curious about what Norman is thinking about. Worth watching at least once.
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Summary: HORRIBLE OLD FILM SEE THE REMAKE!
Review: This film is so boring and in the shower scene it was obviously Bates the wig even from shadow was awful. SEE THE REMAKE FAR MORE ENTERTAINING!
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Summary: Psycho is the greatest suspense thriller of all time!
Review: If someone asked me what movie scared me more than any other movie, I would say Psycho. I'm 18 years old now and the movie doesn't scare me much anymore either because i grew out of being scared by movies(because not many movies do scare me cause you know theyre fake) or because I've seen it so many damn times it just doesn't have the same effect. But it is still my favorite movie of all time. I just don't understand why someone wouldn't enjoy this. It scared the crap out of me when i was about 12 or 13. Most of the people who criticize this movie criticize it for stupid reasons. Like one guy said 'mother's hand slashing Marion looks fake, like a billboard hand moving. First off, I never noticed that until i read this and second off, THAT ruins the movie?? Thats a little too trivial to ruin the whole movie. And someone said Mother isnt part of his life he just dresses up when he needs to hack girls in the shower. Norman dressed as his mother all the time as the psychiatrist at the end said and had conversations with her. It wasnt just when he killed people. I hate to sound juvenile but DUH! And someone said they would be embarrassed to show this movie to an intelligent person. HELLO! This movie is studiedd by film students and EVERY critic I have ever read about gave this film their highest rating. And someone also said that Halloween, not Psycho was responsible for starting the horror trend because there were no horror movies during the sixties and seventies until Halloween( Psycho came out in 1960 and Halloween in 1978). Not true! There were horror movies! There just wasn't another big one until Halloween came out. They were mostly failures. You know damn well there wouldnt have been Halloween without Psycho. Halloween definitely has a tribute to Psycho as the same character names are used (Sam Loomis and Marion Crane)and the fact that the killer has a knife. And Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Janet Leigh, the girl who is killed in the Psycho shower scene. And someone said if Psycho hadn't come out something else would have eventually started the horror trend. Well, DUH again! And if Columbus hadn't discovered America someone else would have. But we still give the credit to him cause he did it first. But I guarantee you, if all of Psycho's imitation had never come and nothing like this was ever made after it, this movie would still be as terrifying today as it was 40 years ago.
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