Psycho R
A new—and altogether different—screen excitement!!!
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 9, 2013
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony Perkins & Janet Leigh | |
Performer: | Martin Balsam, Vera Miles, John Gavin, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Vaughn Taylor, Frank Albertson, Lurene Tuttle, John Anderson, Mort Mills, George Eldredge, Sam Flint & Virginia Gregg | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | George Tomasini | |
Screenwriting by | Joseph Stefano | |
Composition by | Bernard Herrmann | |
Story by | Robert Bloch | |
Cameo: | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Director of Photography: | John L. Russell |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
Entertainment Reviews:
Hitchcock's only out-and-out horror flick -- and possibly the most important ever made.
Total Film
Rating: 4/4 --
The obvious thing to say is that Hitch has done it again; that the suspense of his picture builds up slowly but surely to an almost unbearable pitch of excitement.
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New York Daily News
Psycho comes nearer to attaining an exhilarating balance between content and style than anything Hitchcock has done in years. Of course, it is a very minor work. But its virtues of tension, surprise, virtuosity and control are all major ones.
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Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Even now, it's distinctly unnerving.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
It is one of [Hitchcock's] most brilliantly directed shockers and also his most disagreeable.
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Los Angeles Times
Paramount won't let anyone enter theatres where Psycho is playing after the picture starts. No one will want to leave before it is over.
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Hollywood Reporter
5 stars out of 5 -- It's such an essential film -- remaining fresh, shocking, perversely funny and tragic...
Empire
Product Description:
Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-shot remake by Gus Van Zant in 1998. However, Hitchcock's black-and-white original, featuring Anthony Perkins's haunting characterization of lonely motel keeper Norman Bates, has never been equaled. Bates presides over an out-of-the-way motel under the domineering specter of his mother. The young, well-intentioned Bates is introduced to the audience when Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a blonde on the run with stolen money, checks in for the night. But Momma doesn't like loose women, so the stage is set for this classic tale of horror--and one of the most famous scenes in film history. PSYCHO was initially received by audiences with shock and amazement--and it still terrifies today. Though it is now considered prototypical Hitchcock, its setting, pace, and emphasis on terror were major departures for the director at the time, coming after the more classically grand NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
Keywords:
Classic
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Psychos
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Slasher
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Killer
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Murder
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Recommended
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
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