Psycho appreciation thread

Almost 60 years since it came out, and there still hasn't been a thriller quite like it since. A true horror masterpiece.

 

Great film, for sure

 

Great film making is suppose to EVOLVE, but you watch Psycho and realize the shit has regressed.

No horror/thriller director alive today that even comes close to Hitchock's brillance.

 

Yeah, horrors have gotten worse over the years.

 

It's because they still rely too much on blood/gore/shock

 

Quality ones are few and far between.

I think "Oculus" was the last horror movie I saw which was smart and well done.

 

Psycho is insanely good.

I love everything about this movie.....the sound, the camera-work, the pacing, the ending.....the opening credits are even way ahead of their time for 1960:
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Horror/Suspense movies now are fucking dogshit....literally pieces of dogshit.
Instantly forgotten about before the end-credits are over.

 

Psycho was brilliant.

 

Most iconic horror theme song of all time.

 

Yeah, the character development, story development, and pacing has gone out the fucking window in 98% of horror movies. And NO horror concept is original anymore.

 

I remember the first time I ever heard of the word ´psycho´ was reading an old horror movies book in the 1970s and they had this still from it:



And it said something like ´Anthony Perkins finds something nasty in the shower´ - and I was fuckin hooked on it!

And the shower-scene murder....as popular as it is now, it incredible: the way Janet Leigh plays the Marion Crane, slowly dying from the stab-wounds is really effective...in movies before that, people were shot or stabbed, and they went ´Arrgggh!´and fell over, clutching a wound and died on the spot.
Here, Marion Crane takes fucking ages to bleed-out and die - proper, realistic death:

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I thought it was great and my favorite Hitchcock movie (or at least of the ones I've seen as I haven't seen a lot)

Nice twist too, I'm sure that mother twist shocked a lot of viewers, as well as the fact that the main character in the first half of the movie is killed off.

 

Its a pretty common twist nowadays, and can be seen coming, only because countless thrillers have stolen from Psycho. But AT THE TIME, no horror movie/thriller had a twist like that.

Even this new horror movie coming out, "Split" with James McAvoy, you can tell in the trailers that part of this guy's persona is borrowed from Norman Bates.

That's what makes Psycho so iconic. TO THIS DAY, psychological chillers are trying to duplicate it's brilliance.