Genre: horror-thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Janet Leigh
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
Duration: 109 minutes
Wikipedia: wiki about the movie
No other Hitchcock film had a greater impact. "I was directing the viewers," the director told Truffaut in their book-length interview. "You might say I was playing them, like an organ."
What makes "Psycho" immortal, when so many films are already half-forgotten as we leave the theater, is that it connects directly with our fears: Our fears that we might impulsively commit a crime, our fears of the police, our fears of becoming the victim of a madman, and of course our fears of disappointing our mothers...
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#218 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
13 March 2025, 3:00 pm
Some people say that my head's too big for my body and I say to them, 'compared to what?'
That's one of the first movies I have ever seen :-) There is a pretty good tv series based on Psycho characters - Bates Motel. It has its climate, I think...