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Plot:
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.
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Recent Reviews
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MCT:May 13, 2008
It's weird to think that there was a time when the average person didn't know about multiple personality disorder, necessitating like a ten minute explanation at the end. This is one of those movies that is so famous and widely referenced that the twist ending has been spoiled for you already. I don't care who you are, if you haven't seen it you still know what the surprise ending is.
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MCT:May 12, 2008
A Hitchcock Classic! Well directed, well written, the film is great from the start (one of the best opening credit sequences i've seen)... The score, cimematography and art direction are excellent. Anthony Perkins is perfect as Norman Bates and Janet Leigh was very good too. Vera Miles and John Gavin did an OK job. VERY GOOD THRILLER.
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MCT:May 9, 2008Classic Horror if you didn't know already. Hitchcock basically made modern day film techniques with his films...
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MCT:May 9, 2008
After all this time, Psycho is still just as thrilling as it was 46 years ago. The plot sucks you in from the very start and picks up momentum as it goes. Norman Bates is vibrant and creepy. The all-famous shower scene is artistically shot and successfully disturbing. The whole movie is just delicious. Perfect.
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MCT:May 8, 2008
''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 mother of Bates who you don't see who dominates him.
Strange how bird references come up in this, Hitchcock's fascination. Loved his cameo near the start.
The shower scene comprises of utter genius in how it is shot. A stabbing, thrusting, shadowy figure relentlessly going crazy with a deadly blade.
Marion's outstretched hand leaving a shocking farewell to her life cruelly ripped away.
A close up of her eye, the final montage.
Again it's extremely clever how the whole shower scene leaves a bitter taste yet never shows us anything in the regions of graphic violence. Leaves the audience, the viewer's mind to fill in the blanks.
A shocker twist regarding the killer and a final revelation at it's peak. An intelligent film from the old master Alfred Hitchcock.
Best thriller ever done.
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scorpioboi24posted 64 days ago -
come try my horror movie quiz
http://www.flixster.com/user/mrbicklethepickle/quiz/the-horror-movie-quiz?invitorId=185849826posted 118 days ago -
Bernard Hermann was the greatest help to Hitchcock in this movie.
I wish Audrey would have accepted Leigh's role :(posted 254 days ago -
this is the most chilling movie ever made and hitchcock is one of the best directors ever
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Who can forget that scary but mesmerizing tune that everyone knows as the Psycho theme.
Before this movie no Director attepted to kill off the main character(well -known) in under 30 minutes.
The sound effects of the shower scene was a knife slicing a melon.
So Janet was not scared during the filming as it was done in separate takes but she said it seemed so realistic when she saw the final product she was never able to take a shower again.posted 297 days ago -
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Psycho definitely is one of the greatest American films ever made! The people in the film turned in fantastic performances, and who can forget the shower scene?
PS-Just to tempt fate, I still take showers! heheheheposted 596 days ago -
