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Summary: HARD TO BELIEVE THIS MOVIE IS 4 DECADES OLD.
Review: EVERYTHING IS JUST RIGHT WITH HITCHCOCK'S ORIGINAL "PSYCHO". HOLLYWOOD JUST DON'T MAKE'M LIKE THIS ANYMORE. ANTHONY PERKINS WAS BRILLIANT AS THE DISTURBED NORMAN BATES. I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF THE PSYCHO SEQUELS AND I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S EVEN NECESSARY. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW EFFECTIVE THIS WAS IN THE 1960's, IT'S STILL SHOCKING TODAY. PERKINS BROUGHT FORTH A GENUINE CREEPINESS THAT WAS AWARD WORTHY. THE ENTIRE CAST DID AN EXCELLENT JOB. "PSYCHO" IS AS CLASSIC AS MOVIES GET.
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Summary: Psycho!!
Review: This is Hitchcock's scariest movie. His movies are psychological, so you can make them as scary as you want, but to say this is the scariest movie ever made is a bit over doing it. Yes this film is very scary and unsettling, but common the scariest movie! I think not. It is one of the scariest movies and that is as far as you can go in talking about this film.
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Summary: Unforgettable, no matter how hard you try!
Review: Still scary after all these years, and Hitch didn't need $100-million visual effects--he didn't even need color. No one can forget the shower scene, where you never see the knife and the victim in the same frame, and the blood is in black-and-white. I saw the first re-release in 1969, about 2 weeks before the first night I ever spent alone in a motel... and you can bet I didn't take a shower!
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Summary: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Review: I thought that this movie was exellent. It was perfectly directed and perfectly acted. After Anthony Perkins was in this, people never looked at him the same way. It is about a lady named Marion(Janet Leigh) who is supposed to deposit [a lot of money] into the bank. Instead, she steals the money un noticed, and drives to see her boyfriend Sam(John Gavin). After she has a long drive, she stops at the Bates Motel, and eats dinner with the owner, Norman(Anthony Perkins). After dinner, Marion deciedes to take a shower and the infamous shower scene occurs. After that, Norman cleans up the room, puts the dead body in the trunk(along with the $...), and sinks it into the swamp. Later, Lila(Vera Miles), Marion's sister, is worried about Marion since she is missing. So Dectective Arbogaust(Martin Balsam) offers to help Lila and Sam. When Arbogaust finally goes to the motel and asks Norman about information about Marion, Norman denies it. Later, Arbogaust sees someone inside the house. Then, Arbogaust goes into the Bates' Mansion and walks up the stairs when a dark figure comes out of the bedroom.....
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Summary: the greatest movie ever made
Review: i think my title sums it up. it's a shame that everyone knows the ending before they see it nowdays, because the suprise was something that can't really be appreciated in today's world (this movie came out in nineteenSIXTY remember!!). this movie is NOT a horror movie, but for fans of horror movies, you may want to chack this out to see where your genre was created (if you don't think john carpenter [of halloween] sweated this movie, yer mistaken). well, if you haven't seen it, see it. that's about all i can say....
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Summary: We all go alittle mad sometimes!(Norman Bates)
Review: I saw this masterpiece when I was 12 years old and let me tell you,I've seen alot of horror movies in my lifetime and this is the one that still scares me at certain points.The first time I saw Psycho,I was bored during the first 30 minutes of it.Untill Janet Leigh(Marion)got lost in the rainstorm and found the Bates Motel and meets Norman Bates played greatly by Anthony Perkins.Hitchcock was the master of his time and still is in our time,out of all of Hitchcock's films that I've seen,I believe this is his finest work...I recommend this film not only to horror movie fans,but also to fans of both Hitchcock and Perkins and also for people like me who want to be film directors.One of the greatest movies ever made and my second favourite film ever.
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Summary: The "Mother" of all horror films
Review: An undisputed classic, PSYCHO is the mother of all horror films. Released in 1960, the master's most macarbe film was seen by audiences as tasteless and vulgar, now, 42 years later, it's seen as one of the great lessons in suspense. As Hitchcock himself once put it, "The trick is to pull the rug out from people's feet". Indeed, in what other film before or after do we see the supposed leading lady get killed 20 minutes through? Throughout the film, themes of fear, paranoia and horror are all displayed to maximum effect. Benard Herrman's terrific score is perhaps one of the most memorable film scores ever composed. Imitated to death, the notorious "shower scene" with sharp violin strings and high percussion culminates in one of the most amazing sequences ever put onto film. Other nice touches include the introduction of "mother", Arbogast's demise, and a hinting to Hitchcock's next film, THE BIRDS. Forget the sequels and Gus Van Sant's dismal remake. PSYCHO is one of the greats.
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Summary: Best Of The Best
Review: Odd as it may seem, but Masterpieces are hard to live up to. Hitch made Psycho in 1960, and never equalled its brilliant dark mood, it's unrelenting suspense, and it's almost unendurable ending. No matter how he tried, Hitch never matched "PSYCHO"'s raw power. Well, he started with the novel by Robert Bloch, a cast including Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins , Martin Balsam, Vera Miles, and John Gavin . And then Alfred Hitchcock takes over, and makes a "slasher" film into an unparalelled work of cinema noir classicism, setting the standard by which all succeeding films will be measured, and typically fall short.I remember seeing this movie in a theatre, and not taking a shower for weeks thereafter. Buy it. Turn out the lights. Don't get up, watch it straight through. If you can breathe when Simon Oakland gives the denoument, you are permitted a medal. But you've been thoroughly scared. . . If not, well. . . you don't know good film-making when you see it. And it "PSYCHO", you're hit over the head with it. It's a masterpiece.
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Summary: Gripping Melodrama at Local Motel
Review: VARIOUS OBSERVATIONS
Psycho is a nightmare film. Not because it is scary - because it isn't particularly frightening. It is deeply unsettling, perhaps, more than scary. ''The Birds'' left me in shivers; this one only left me with deep elusive emotions and the memory of Norman's maniacal, psychotic smile at the close of the film, an image which almost twelve hours later has not left me. Any more than has ''Mother's'' voice. I suppose this film is a study: a disturbing, but true look into the human nature. We all could be psycho killers if we had been in his place, and although we cringe at the horror and sickness of Norman's twisted mind and split personality, we find it hard to despise him.
Norman Bates looks at first glance as innocent as anyone - he is really quite ordinary. Who would suspect he is a maniac scizophrenic? After all, practically anyone can acquire the aggravating habit of continuous candy corn consumption, or be twittery and stuttering, or look creepy in certain lights. But the moment the illumined ''Bates Motel'' sign comes into view through the weeping night, it is an edgy feeling that crawls over the viewer. But why? The cabins are no different from many others; in fact they are quite charming. Still, a peculiar air seems to be pervading the place, an air of dread, uncertainty and darkness. Not only the darkness of the hour, but of the mind. Perhaps it is the old house that stands guard of the cabins which is so menacing; perhaps she is protective of them. She looks as though she could reach out and destroy anything which threatened the solitude and silence of those twelve vacancies.
Mother's room is heavy, oppressive in its ornateness and antiquity. The imprint she left on the bed direct's one's mind - rather unsettlingly - to the thought of those plaster casts made from the hollows left by the victims of Pompeii. Trapped for years, perhaps, leaving a mark that will take many more years to efface. Norman's room is suggestive of the child he still is. His life as Norman ended at five, after all. When did he have a chance to grow up? At five his father died, and Norman began his long slow descent into madness. His toys have never been taken out of the place. The record in the player is Beethoven's ''Eroica'': powerful music, almost light at times, frightfully aggressive at other moments. The motive goes in circles, first loudly, then softly, sometimes overlapping, never really reaching a resolution until the slamming close.
Mother Bates herself isn't all that frightening. I expect we are too desensitised by this time - after all, one see hundreds of such masks and worse at Hallowe'en time. No matter how revolting they may be, such things no longer frighten us as they would have done the general public in 1960. Lila touches her shoulder; the corpse turns about - eyeless, all smile and teeth and grey hair and shawl. When Norman comes in, looking ridiculous and far too tall in Mother's dressing-gown and wig, and is taken over by Sam, Mother rocks peacefully, the eternal smile fixed. The light bulb as it swings gives a weird shadow effect. Where Mother's eyes should be, the shadows play back and forth as if she is glancing from side to side - laughing at what she sees, laughing at the destruction she has helped to create.
I would say everyone should see this film at least once, for the experience. It is well-done and thought-provoking, with much more depth than the cheap horror flicks of today. This is a real situation, this could actually happen (only let's hope not very much). I know a Bates Motel. I've never been in it. Perhaps someday I'll go check it out, but I think I'll stay out of the shower.
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Summary: Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO
Review: No this is not that dumb remake this is the original this a real Hitchcock film you'll see it all on this DVD With a load of features own one of the all time best film directed by the master
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