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Summary: The master at work!
Review: Hitchcock's classic is exactly that for good reason. Everytime I see this movie I am again grabbed by its incredible ability to shock, terrify, and intrigue me. The extra material on this DVD provides great insight into the direction and writing of a movie everyone must own.
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Summary: Among the finest Hitchcock films!!
Review: Director Alfred Hitchcock has crafted a classic for all time. "Psycho" is one of the "Master's" best achievements. The story is simple. Marion Crane (played by Janet Leigh) steals $40,000 from her employer to help her boyfriend Sam Loomis (Played by John Gavin) pay debts. Slowed by a rainstoem she arrives at the infamous "Bates Motel" run by a young man named Norman Bates (played by Anthony Perkins) She is brutally murdered in the now classic "shower scene" When a detctive by the name of Arbogast (played by Martin Balsam) comes looking he is suspicious of the "mother fixated" Norman. Then her sister Lila (played by Vera Miles) and Sam come looking Lila finds his mother's corpse in the fruit cellar. He is then hauled to jail. What makes the "shower scene" so creepy is the music of Bernard Herrmann. It is the finest slasher scene in film. It has brilliant direction by Hitchcock (who deservedly got an Oscar nomination) It is merely the best of it's kind. Very often imitated but no one will beat this Hitchcock classic, except Alfred Hitchcock.
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Summary: Original Psycho is still superior to imitations
Review: SHRIEK! The original Psycho is still the greatest horror film ever made, from the master himself, Alfred Hitchcock. During the winter '98, Gus Van Sant tried to remake the original, almost word for word and scene by scene. Sorry, but no one can do it like Hitchcock did it, and no one ever will. Psycho is the classic horror movie of all time. Don't be fooled by imitations-this Psycho still is best.
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Summary: What a GREAT ending!
Review: When your watching this movie everything's a mystery to you! That's what is so good about this movie. I would have never figured out the ending on my own.
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Summary: Hand me a towel,please.....
Review: After Psycho was released,many people had to make a concerted effort to step foot into their shower. The images that Hitchcock planted in the brains of the viewers that saw his masterpiece Psycho, lingered not for minutes but for years! Hitchcock made this film with a technique and a style that blended the standard movie mystery-crime drama with elements of horror that created a whole new genre of film. The intense music score had a character of its own that was utilized in the most effective ways possible.Anthony Perkins as the mentally ill, maternally domineered murderer Norman Bates is superb. Janet Leigh gives the performance of her lifetime as Marion Crane the unfortunate guest of Bate's motel, who takes a shower she will never get to finish. All of the suporting characters give excellent turns. Look for a young Ted Knight as a prison guard. Also, if you are a real Hitchcock fan ,try to pick out the references throughout the movie to the upcoming Birds film by Hitchcock. All and all Psycho is probably one of the best thriller/horror movies you will ever see.
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Summary: Great movie, great supliments
Review: Psycho, even with all of its imitators and now a remake, remains one of the most horrific and suspensful films of all time. What's more amazing is that no one else has caught on to Hitchcock's understanding that a viewer's mind creates most of the horror.Besides the movie, which is beautifully transferred, the DVD contains a vast plethora of suplimental materials: A _long_ documentary, original news reel footage, original trailers, promotion cards, the story board for the shower scene, and more and more. There are reports, though, that when the movie was converted to widescreen on the disc, they made it "too wide." In other words, some of the top and bottom of the frame have been cut off. I don't know how much, but it certainly isn't noticeable
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Summary: Nobody does it like hitchcock
Review: Hitchcock is the master of suspense. Psycho was one of those movies that no matter how many times you see it you still get a chill and are afraid to go in the shower. I watch horror movies all the time from Nightmare on Elm Street to The Exorcist and this one had my spine tingling. And with all the stuff that this DVD is loaded with you'll enjoy every minute from the trailer to the movie to the newsreel. And as for the remake, this one is still better.
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Summary: The Film that started it all!!!!!!!!!
Review: If it wasn't for this film, there would be no Halloween H20 or I Know What You did Last Summer or Scream. Psycho is the movie that practically started the whole Horror Genre
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Summary: Crazy for "PSYCHO"
Review: That master of suspence, Alfred Hitchcock, reahced one of the many peaks in his genius with "Psycho." Simple uses of falling rain, slow zoom outs, and leaving the camera out of the room allowed him to make a film that remains as powerfully hypnotizing as it was 38 years ago when it was made. How many other movies can boast this effect? In short, Hitchcock was a master, and "Psycho" is one of your best bets him at his finest.
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Summary: A Movie Masterpiece
Review: Alfred Hitchcock made this dark essay into psychosis as a "black comedy" (his classification), and that it was, as well as a character study (and what characters), a suspense/mystery, and an outright horror film. So many subthemes surround the characters and their interrelationships (and their respective fates) that whole books can (and have) been written on the subject. What this translates to for the viewer is a film that can be watched one or fifteen times, and can be as fascinating the fifteenth time because (if you pay attention) you'll spot something about it that you didn't see or understand before. (Norman's description of his mother's condition: "Why, she's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds over there" didn't register through the scariness until I'd seen it at least twice, and ditto for "My mother--what's the phrase--hasn't been herself lately"). Oh, yeah!!! Tony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and the rest of the cast were unforgettable in the subtle way the master loved best. Hitchcock's complete mastery of storytelling via cinema has never been more evident than in this wild, quirky film, from the tricky camera work to the double & triple meaning of the dialog to, of course, the set piece of the whole show, the shower sequence, that takes the film in a wholly different direction than you thought it was going at first. Not to be missed, but much to be savored by cinema lovers and horror buffs alike (not to mention, of course, Hitchcock fans).
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