Psycho
Dir: Alfred
Hitchcock 1960
In preparation for the upcoming biopic (Hitchcock starring
Anthony Hopkins 2012) I decided to break out the Psycho Blu-ray that I bought
last year and never opened (something I’ve realized I do more often than not). The
Psycho Blu-ray is the ultimate edition of the film for any Hitchcock fan. The picture
quality has been re-mastered to near perfection and the sound quality of the
score and dialogue are amazing and it is packed full of bonus features.
Psycho is a film that can sit in your mind hours after the
film is over. The Story is pretty basic, a woman, Marion Crane, steals $40,000
from one of her clients and makes leaves town looking for a fresh start. When a
sudden rain storm forces her to check into an out of the way completely vacant
motel everything takes a turn. It is at this motel that we meet Norman Bates
The owner and manager of the motel who lives in a creepy old house nearby with
his mother. Norman tells us that since the new highway was built he doesn’t get
a whole lot of business making the perfect secluded horror movie setting. Not even
halfway through the film Hitchcock has the “star” killed off in a fairly
dramatic fashion (the infamous shower scene). After this killing the film takes
a complete turn and becomes an entirely different film, Marion’s sister and
boyfriend are determined to track her down and things are revealed about Norman
that makes him seem more sinister than originally thought.
I would recommend Psycho to anybody, despite its slow build it’s
a very suspenseful and watchable film, and it offers an interesting commentary
on mental illness that was radical for the 1960’s.
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