Im a millennial and a horror movie fan and recently saw psycho (1960). I liked it, whats your opinion on the movie?

Question

My thoughts are psycho was good. As a millennial the few kills were so much more real and off camera works your mind and actually got a reaction out of me than just the usual splatter slasher film where a bunch of people are killed. And the ending was very creepy and well done. I now realise the classic horror that...

Answer 1

Good for you for investigating old time horror. That was the beginning of horror as we know it and was more psychological then gore. People then had never seen anything like Psycho before and it made an entire generation of women fear taking showers. Couples left the theaters trembling. Same way the Exorcist made theater goers faint and vomit in the isles from the shock of what had never been done in a movie before. You should check out some more old movies like Gaslight or Rear Window. You may really like them. Again, remember this was the beginning of what we now call horror or thrillers. Imagine your great grandparents seeing them back then. It was a new world.

Answer 2

It's a great film, probably Hitchcock's best.

Answer 3

Not scary at all.

Answer 4

He wouldn't harm a fly....NORRRRMAAAN

Answer 5

"Psycho" is one of the all-time classics.

When people think of horror movies from the 50s and 60s, they usually think of B-Movie schlock like the Hammer Studios Dracula movies with Christopher Lee, or the movies of Vincent Price. However, there are gems to be found, out there. One of my favorites is "The Haunting" (1963).

https://pm1.narvii.com/6606/a9f6e5961ba1...

"An evil, old house, the kind some people call 'haunted', is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for ninety years, and might stand for ninety more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House. And, whatever walked there walked alone."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1beRMVq...

Answer 6

Very cool that you discovered Psycho. I re-watched last week for the first time in decades. Hitchcock is one of my favorite directors. If you liked Psycho, try The Birds, it's great suspense/horror.

Answer 7

It's on my absolute top 10.

bonus material.
Hitchcock on Psycho -
"My main satisfaction is that film did something to an audience. I really mean that. In many ways, I feel my satisfaction in our art achieved something, often, mass emotion. It wasn't a message. It wasn't some more great performance. It wasn't a highly, appreciated novel that served the audience. It was pure film. People will say what a terrible thing to make and the subject was horrible. The people were small. There were no characters in it. I know all this. But, I know one thing: the use of filming construction of this story caused audiences all over the world to react and become emotional. "

"It doesn't matter where the film goes. If you've designed it correctly, the Japanese audience should scream at the same time as the Indian audience. "

"It was a very interesting construction. I tried, for a long time, to *play* the audience. Let's say we where playing them like an organ. "

Martin Scorsese on Psycho -
The best scenes for me are, one's he must have spent time on, the driving shots. You had to spend time on those, particularly the points of view, somehow. And the framing of Janet Leigh in the center of the frame with the top of the steering wheel in the bottom of the frame. Because, you can make a choice. You can go above the steering wheel, you know, or you can go further out. But, then, maybe you won't see her eyes as well. That's like the perfect size. The scene with the policeman, of course, the framing of him staring into the car, yes, we know, with the glasses, he's scary. But, there is something about the restraint of those frames. You see, the more you restrain, the better it is when the explosion happens. And on the way to the explosion there are these meditative states. Driving. And there's a sense of movement ahead, movement ahead.

"She steals money. Then, she decides to drive away. Then, she becomes guilty about it. Then, she meets this guy in a motel and he's telling her all his problems. You're watching, wanting to know what happens. Is she going to bring that money back? Now, what is Anthony Perkins really going to do? You know, he has his mother there, maybe there's going to be this whole thing going on with his mother and him and her. I mean, you're really, you're taken down a path. But, what's great about it is that - that your expectations are taken and turned upside down. "

Godard on Hitchcock -
"Something which is very astonishing with Hitchcock is that you don't remember what the story of NOTORIOUS is, or why Janet Leigh is going to the Bates Motel. You remember one pair of spectacles or a windmill -- that's what millions and millions of people remember. If you remember NOTORIOUS, what do you remember? Wine bottles. You don't remember Ingrid Bergman. When you remember Griffith or Welles or Eisenstein or me, you don't remember ordinary objects. He is the only one."

Watch Slavoj Zizek on Psycho -

https://youtu.be/YKH6FmPV1_o

Answer 8

I'm 19 years old. And I just seen it with a friend for the very first time! It was awesome.

Answer 9

Psycho is a classic thriller by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the masters of the genre. It had a really unusual fake out at the time where you thought it was going to be about Janet Leigh on the run from the law but then she gets murdered halfway through and it turns into a completely different movie. If suggest checking out Hitchcocks other films, especially Vertigo and Rear Window.

Answer 10

It was ok. I did like the acting, and I think it was pretty well made.

But the scene, where I think it was the detective that falls down the stairs was quite comical to me. Like the background didn't match up with how he was falling.