Psycho (1960)
 

This is my favorite Hitchcock film & my third favortie movie ever.

Does anyone else think it's as great as I do? Just wondering.

yeah great movie, performances are all fantastic. I wish I wasn't as desensitized as i am to those type of movies. I'd love to know what that'd have been like in the cinema when it was released. Hermann's score is essential to the story.

I know it's a good movie if i remember exactly where i was the first time i saw it and this is one of those movies

Did you know that Marion Crane's (Vivien Leigh's) white 1957 Ford sedan is the same car (owned by Universal) that the Cleaver family drove on TV's "Leave It to Beaver"?

How cool is that?

Ah, all the taboos that film played with. Cross-dressing, voyerism. A movie way ahead of its time.

Ths score is so great.

johnnywinternoshow already knows this, no doubt, but it was Psycho that changed theater admission rules.

On Hitchcock's insistence, "No One ... BUT NO ONE ... Will Be Admitted To The Theatre After The Start Of Each Performance Of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ..."

What a genius tagline.

Great example of post-modern film.

was it a hitchcock movie that had the tagline "just repeat... it's only a movie, it's only a movie"?

I think you're thinking of "Last House on the Left."

i bought that cus of it's video nasty press, what a big disappointment, i thought i was in for a real splatterfest, haven't watched it again since the day i bought it

I really enjoyed the Norman Bates character as a whole. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the famous shower scene.

Wait, there was a shower scene?

Chocolate syrup was used instead of blood. Most people know that.

That pan as the camera goes to her lifeless body & then the eye spiraling like water down a drain. It's the most memorable shot in all of cinema.

In the Itchy Scratch & Marge episode where Marge bans cartoon violence, Homer gets hit over the head with some red paint & the camerawork is imitated.

the vince vaughn remake was totally shit, wasn't it? it's the equivalent of some contemporary religious guy rewriting the bible with judus spying on jesus through a hole in the wall tugging one off

haha yeah sort of...ah, it was okay. I like Vince Vaughn & Juliane Moore & it was done shot-by-shot basically which was a tasteful choice.


Gus Van Sant is okay too. I used to really, really like his work a lot more though.

Possibly the worst re-make of all time. Terribley mis-cast, especially Anne Heche as Marianne Crane. No sense of art what-so-ever.:fuckyou:

Yeah the score is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Psycho. Like LifeDistortion mentioned it was pretty ahead of it's time. Pretty tuff to fuck with.....really weird ass shit when you think about it.

I'm incredibly ashamed to say that I have not seen Psycho. It's one of those movies that I always pick up at Blockbuster, carry it around, and then decide on something else. That and Fight Club. And until recently, Citizen Kane, but I finally got around to that one and it was even better than I expected. I just need to set aside one week and watch all the classics that I've deprived myself of.

also breaking the mold was that for nearly exactly half of the movie, Vivien Liegh is the main focus & then she gets killed off to shocking effect.

Another movie I never saw in whole. I'd like to see birds I here its pretty great.

i made a home movie paying homage to psycho

bernard herman is wonderful. i prefer his score for taxi driver but psycho is still amazing. im working on a solo guitar arrangement of the opening piece and it fits the guitar well.

yes atari2600-the aftermath of the stabbing is probably one of my favorite scenes in a film. the simpsons parody is perfect.

also i heard that psycho was the first hollywood film to ever show a toilet. a groundbreaking film in many ways.

Exactly....the Taxi Driver score is the best!!!

that's right it was!

about the toilet. damn, it might just be the greatest movie ever!

the scene in Citizen Kane where Welles drops the snowglobe & utters "rosebud" as he dies is up there too, if not maybe #1.

Yeah, when they did the original Star Wars before the score was added (apparently you put fake music in before the real score) they put the Psycho theme in the scene where they come out of the hiding compartments. John Williams thought it was so good for the scene he incorporated it into the soundtrack.


It is probably my favorite Hitchcock film too. Rear Window comes close. I also really love Strangers on a Train, North By Northwest, the Man Who Knew Too Much (James Stewart version), and Vertigo.

Mel Brooks' High Anxiety is a great Vertigo spoof by the way.

yeah the taxi driver score is better than drugs! the way the music comes in with the dirty streets of nyc...fuck

The Vince Vaugh one was on last night. I watched half of it.

I'ev never seen the OG version, though... In fact, I've never seen a Hitchcock film.

You have to. He's a fricking genius. Incredibly underrated. He is right up there with Kubrick in my mind.

we had some cool Hitchcock threads at the old board.

My favorite Hitchcock scenes:
Psycho- The end dialogue. That seals in the movie for me.
Rear Window- The scene where the bad guy is coming at him and all he has for defense is his flash (Saw sort of ripped this scene off)
The Man Who Knew Too Much- the scene where Doris Day is standing at the entrance to the Albert Hall and she is completely frantic.
North By Northwest- The crop duster sequence

I want to see Rope really badly. I heard it was filmed in 10 shots, and they were all cut to where the transistions are unnoticable.

the birds was kind of lame. i mean birds? come on.

the menace in some of those scenes like the one with the birds on the playground was amazing tho. hitchcock almost made this shit fly.

Psycho is classic, it basically plays on the audience's fear of being alone and vulnerable. A woman is showering, at her most vulnerable, and audiences then would never have expected her to be attacked. Also, she is set up as the main character in the beginnning, so another convention is destroyed. Wonderful; and this was in 1960. And what about that incest overtones... Phew...

absolutely...Rope is a very underrated one...yeah one must-see it because of the one location & the long shots...like a play. We discussed Rope a good bit at the old board Hitch threads. There's so many docs, but there's a really great Hitchcock documentary that played last year on some premium channels, i can't remember the name of it or find it on the internet...