PSYCHO (1960) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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- Psycho (1960) First Time Watching Movie Reaction, Review, and Commentary for JL. Many moments trying to figure out where exactly Norman fits on the crazy scale and many moments finally realizing what Billy Loomis was talking about at the bottom of that staircase were had.
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Can we just take a second to appreciate how hilariously efft up it is to react to Psycho for a 'Mother's Day Celebration?' LOL
😂😂😂😂 Your comment actually made me lol.
Anthony Perkins should've definitely won an oscar for this performance we wouldn't have any of the slashers without Norman Bates and this movie holds up so well for it's time!
Should *have is the correct phrase (or should've). Should "of" means nothing.
@@SurvivorBri Good point, I didn't really go back to my comment until now appreciate the correction
@@SurvivorBrithank you. My grammor is gonna be betta because’ve you
@@mth666nice! Lol! 😂
I don't think you do television series. If you ever have time to check out Bates motel with Freddie highmore as a young, more modern version of Norman Bates equally as terrifying
When I first started watching your channel about 2 years or so ago I mentioned you need to see Psycho and you responded with, "I'm going to. It's on my list." Dang. I am so patient. 😄👍😊
Somehow the more movies J watches, the longer the list gets.😅
🤣🤣😘
I don’t think he had a gray beard then.
He said porky's is on the list, too. It's hard to fill orders when when you're in high demand.
Check out Psycho 2
Janet Leigh was considered the most valued woman in Hollywood, at the time. No one expected her to be dead in the first 30 minutes of the movie. According to newspaper accounts, people left the theater completely stunned. And the theaters did a good job of keeping Janet's death a secret, telling cinema goers not to talk about the movie beyond the times it was playing.
If you check out the trailer, with Hitchcock giving a tour of the Bates Motel, there's a jumpscare at the end where he pulls back the shower curtain to reveal a screaming woman. The woman is NOT Janet Leigh, but in fact Vera Miles, the actress who played Lilah.
Wes Craven killing off Drew Barrymore in Scream was an homage to Psycho. Drew was a star then and the audience also didn't expect her to die so quickly.
You can thank the late, great Alma Reville, Hitchcocks wife for that masterstroke. Hitch was already worried about killing his star at the midpoint of the movie but it was Alma who famously told him to "..not wait until halfway, kill her after thirty minutes." That way the audience would have no clue as to what could happen in the rest of the film heightening the tension even further.
Who said she was the most valued?
The most valued woman would have been either Audrey Hepburn or Marilyn Monroe
The girl that jacked the money is Jamie Lee Curtis's mom Janet Leigh and the other girl talking to her in the office is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock
I was gonna say that but you beat me to it! Ironic that he referenced Halloween in the video too.
I didn't know that was Alfred Hitchcock's daughter. Interesting tidbit.
Yeah so he’s seen her before. And her car. In Halloween H20 😁 They even played the theme song. It was a really nice nod to her mom. I think she even said something about being motherly or something 😆
Yeah she looks just like him.
@@lauraneely6270 She was also in “Strangers On A Train” and “Stage Fright”.
The reason the boss looks at her in that way is because she’s supposed to be home with a headache. He knew *something* was wrong.
Tarantino sorta used the same POV shot in Pulp Fiction when Butch is driving and Marcellus is crossing in front of his car. I wouldn't usually notice such a thing, but of course, Quentin has said it himself.
@@richardrobbins387I noticed that as well. Not immediately but eventually. Tarantino is an absolute film fiend with encyclopedic recall is The KING Of Homages. Of course his critics would label him King Of Thieves. 😅🤣 But I LIKE QT so I see it from a creative perspective and not just cheap thievery. I'm a film fanatic myself.
@@richardrobbins387 Wow! I never really thought about that, but now that you mention it…🤔👍🏽
"The music's on point. The music's like it knows something you don't." Frickin' great observation! My friend Dorothy's dad did the music for this film. He was brilliant.
Your friend is the daughter of Bernard Herman? Wow. I bought a best of Bernard Herman film score CD a while back. Need to try and find it and listen to it.
Lol you know Bernard Hermann's daughter? C'maaaaan.
Herrmann was a genius.
@@reservoirdude92 ya, we're good friends. Met her about 10 years ago. Although we live about 6 hours apart, we talk often and get together at holidays and celebrations and such.
My first music score albums were Jaws, The Omen and Psycho; each with music cues that shocked the listener.
This is how Wes Craven got his idea for killing Drew Barrymore in Scream with killing off the main character.
It was actually Drew Barrymore’s idea and not Wes Craven’s. Wes offered her the lead. She declined, but still wanted to participate. She knew it would be shocking for an A list actor to die early which is why she chose to play Casey Becker and not Sidney.
@@finster1968 either way it happened and was a huge success. Did you know she wants to comeback to the Scream franchise? Idk how’d they do it, but she definitely wants to.
@@emoartist12 - Yes, I heard that too. That would be awesome. I’m glad Neve Campbell is returning to the next one.
I've got a letter from Danny Rolling, to Merle Allin, in the safe, right next to me.
Fucker stays locked in there, too.
Its like a nipple earing, from Ed Geins house.
Wish I never got drunk, and bought it.
" I'm gonna start cleaning my tub with a mop too!"
Done it that way for years. Wet the mop, load it down with cleanser and scrub away. No bending, kneeling or stooping. I'm not a young man anymore, so this technique is the trick.
"She needs ME. It's not as if she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes - a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?"
"Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough."
Fun Fact: This was the highest-grossing movie of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's career.
Music Enthusiast Fact: The score is played entirely by stringed instruments. Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock was so pleased with the score written by Bernard Herrmann that he doubled the composer's salary.
Up Close And Personal Fact: In order to implicate viewers as fellow voyeurs, Sir Alfred Hitchcock used a 50 mm lens on his 35 mm camera. This gives the closest approximation to the human vision. In the scenes where Norman (Anthony Perkins) is spying on Marion (Janet Leigh), this effect is felt.
Subtle Visual Cues Fact: In the opening scene, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is wearing a white bra and has a white purse because Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted to show her as being angelic. After she has taken the money, the following scene has her in a black bra and black purse because now she has done something wrong and evil.
Speaking of the word "Maniac', I would love to see J react to the original early 80s fillm!
The score is so good that orchestras sometimes play it on its own, without the movie.
Film theory
Just a small note - The cop at the end who gives Norman a blanket is Ted Knight. He was the snooty country club judge in Caddyshack and a costar in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. 😊
The one with the hat so bad it comes with a free bowl of soup
Never knew that and I've watched Psycho probably dozens of times.
@@butkusfan23 Well, it looks good on you, though! 😉
You'll get nothing and like it!!! 😅
I've seen this like 100 times and never get bored of this classic. The 2nd and 3rd sequel are well worth a watch and extremely underrated IMO
The second one is my ish
The 2nd one blew my mind. 😂
@@BertonMelch yeah with 2 twists
I love those sequels. Psycho 3 is great fun, the thing I love about Psycho 3 is Duane Duke. "Watch the guitar."
“A boy’s best friend is his mother”
J- 😒 “listen”. 😂
I think you would love Rear Window another Hitchcock film. It’s more of a murder mystery than scary but it’s one of the best movies of all time!
Love that one! And the one with Audrey Hepburn where she’s blind. I don’t think that’s Hitchcock though.
Lithen
@@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 it isn’t but has one of the best jump scares ever!
I LOVE Rear Window
@@stevenandcarminabeedle9089Wait Until Dark! Love that movie.
16:47 Yes…. Billy said that in Scream. Then he said “Anthony Perkins -Psycho”.
Foreshadowing: “she’s as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.”
I like how J noticed all the Scream callbacks to this movie 👍
60 years later and still good. Hitchcock is great and it shows why he is a legend in cinema.
HAHAHAHA!!! You did NOT choose PSYCHO for Mother's Day!?#@ Absolutely smashed that LIKE button so hard for this.
Norman Bates was loosely based on real life ghoul Ed Gein. Like Bates, Gein was into taxidermy, but the reality was far far FAR more gruesome, too gruesome for a general movie audience in the 1960s. Gein made lampshades out of his victims, and you don't want to know what he really wore to keep the image of his mother alive.
Later more gory slasher films were also inspired by Gein, particularly the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
So it sounds like Gein was possibly the inspiration for buffalo bill in Silence of the Lambs.
@@pauldurkee4764 Partly. Many serial killers were used as inspiration for Bill including Ted Bundy who used to fake injuries to attract help from some of his victims and Gary Heidnik who kept his victims in a pit in his basement. As for Norman, Robert Bloch had already written most of his original novel 'Psycho' when Gein was arrested. When the detail of his crimes were revealed and his own closeness to his mother established Bloch was shocked at how closely the character he invented was true to life but it was just co-incidental. Bloch did live quite close to the Gein farmstead too ! Must be something in the water around there !
@@pauldurkee4764 He was.
@@pauldurkee4764 Never seen Silence of the Lambs, but that's a good call. I read the Buffalo Bill character is a combination of Gein, Ted Bundy and another gruesome killer.
Psycho 2 is arguably. just as good as the first Psycho movie. Anthony Perkins gave an amazing performance in that one too. And Psycho 3 and 4 are worth checking out too.
Psycho II is better for me, far more rewatchable!
I LOVED Psycho 2. It was refreshing. 3 and 4 felt a bit too repetitive for me - although 4 had some great moments.
"Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."
The actor who plays the car salesman is John Anderson, a really excellent character actor with, as you said, a great voice, who pops up all over the place in memorable roles. Multiple appearances in The Twilight Zone, some excellent performances in MASH, and a fascinating turn in a third season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called The Survivors.
38:46 "They are probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They'll see. They'll see, and they'll know, and they'll say: Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..." :)
Car designers 2024: "Small, lightweight seats are necessary reduce weight, improving performance and gas milage. "
Car designers 1960: " Hey! How about front and rear sofa beds?"
And their shock absorbers were weak so when the car came to a stop, it bounced up and down long enough to make you seasick.
@@johnnehrich9601 If your head didn't bounce back three times, you technically ran that stop sign. 😁
Everything is a "light truck" now. So big is back.
Gas was .31 cents a gallon in 1960. Equivalent to $3.23 today.
@@johnnehrich9601 Yeah people had to replace shock absorbers a lot back then.
"The music sounds like it knows something you don't." Just excellent!
What a classic.
The brilliance of offing the biggest star in the first third of the movie .
Hitchcock was a cinema madlad
I haven't even gotten to the movie yet, and I'm already loving the dark humor of having this movie serve as the "Mother's Day" movie. Ha ha! Okay, now to see the reaction...
You know how Scream makes meta-references to the horror genre, and the woman who appears to be the star of the movie dies right away? That was a nod to this film. Having Marion Crane die in the middle of the movie was a twist that no one saw coming, and bucked the "formula" of the big murder happening at the end of the movie. I *loved* J's comment about how the music seems to know more than the audience does -- what a fantastic observation! The soundtrack was perfect for this film, which was intentionally shot in B+W, which was another break from the norms in 1960. Two other notable vanguard details: apparently this was the first movie that actually showed a toilet (yes really), and one of the first (if not the first) to show two unmarried adults together with the implication that they had just slept with each other.
My mom saw this in a theater in 1960, when she was 18, on a date. At that climactic fruit cellar scene, her date screamed and he dove onto the movie theater floor. There was not a follow-up date after that. 😉
"Rear Window" is excellent!
The part where she’s driving and hearing all the voices is her imagining what they will say. Height of paranoia and anxiety.
Nice!
The shower scene, as well as the shocking memorable twist ending, were on Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments
Other Hitchcock thrillers you must react to: Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Strangers On a Train, and North by Northwest.
Also, WAIT UNTIL DARK and Charade. Both With Audrey Hepburn. Even though Hitchcock didn’t direct them he might as well have. The former has one of the top 10 scariest moments in film history
Shadow of a Doubt is probably my favorite Hitchcock movie but I agree with Rear Window.
Vertigo is his next best after Psycho.
Great job JL! Vera Miles who played the blonde in search of the other is still living she is 94!
The bedroom jumpscare when she kills arbogast is probably the first really good one ever recorded on film.. for 1960 anyway.
Also the "I wouldn't even harm a fly" is referenced in the Seed
of Chucky... at the end.
When I was a kid my mother had already seen “Psycho” and she told me about the shower scene. I kind of expected that (though I thought it would be later in the film), but the Arbogast scene on the stairs really scared the sh*t out of me, because she never told me about that one. 😂
Fun fact: First film to show a toilet flushing
It was considered almost scandalous too.
@@Bluesit32 Well, that is why they hadn't shown it before. The censorship during this era was very restrictive and only slowly eased up, as morals changed and also tv cut so deep into movie viewership that they had to make the movies more liberal. Hitchcock made the toilet flushing the torn-up paper as part of the story, so they basically had to leave it in.
Well it’s from the book. There’s a documentary on here somewhere where they talk about it. Hitchcock told the writer that if he wanted it in, he could fight the MPAA about it. The MPAA never mentioned it because they kept insisting they saw nudity in the shower scene, despite the fact that Janet Leigh was never nude in the first place.
@@everyonelovesmajima There IS nudity in the shower scene, but it isn't Janet Leigh: it's Marli Renfro-Leigh's stand-in.
to show a toilet, period.
the writer was like, "I want to show a toilet!"
& Hitchcock told him it had to be part of the story,
or it wouldn't be allowed
That wasn’t Norman that Sam was fighting with. It was Mrs Bates. Sam could absolutely overpower Mrs Bates.
Exactly. It's one of the things that shows just how much the personality completely takes over the physical body.
He still had his Norman clothes on
This is what I'll be eating my dinner to. Not for some wierd reason, it's just timing.
So much has changed since 1960: It was scandalous to have a half-dressed, unmarried woman (!) alone in a room with a man.......AND.......this was the first time a toilet was flushed in a motion picture! The rest of the movie, obviously, was shocking by more conventional methods......even in 2024. Enjoyed the reaction, as usual. Thanks for sharing.
"Rear Window" needs to be the next one!!! He will love that movie!!
MARNIE. Bring on another Mother film - MARNIE is that story and film.
Sam Loomis from Halloween was named after the character in Psycho. Carpenter and Debra Hill were both Hitchcock fans.
If you want to be truly horrified, please be aware that Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill (amongst others) are all based on ONE man.
Ed Gein from Wisconsin.
Mr. Gein was a painfully shy handyman in his home town, even beloved as a babysitter. However, he had been ruled by his domineering mother, a woman who had very strong ideas about relationships and religion. Spoiler alert: she was a bully to her sons, especially Ed. The other son was killed in an "accident" when the sons were younger men.
Anyway, when she died, Ed boarded up her side of the farmhouse, essentially preserving it, but where he lived fell into squalor and filth. Ed liked to make his own decor, specifically with the body parts of women that he dug up from the cemetery. He would use skin for lampshades, skulls for bowls, a box of ladies genitalia, etc., in an attempt to make a female suit to wear to bring his mother "back."
Ed only killed 2 women (it's up for debate if he killed his brother). One was a local barmaid and the other one was an older lady who worked at her family's store. The ONLY reason that he was visited by the police was because they had found a receipt with his name on it at the store and just thought it would be a lead, since Eddie was harmless to the community. Imagine their surprise when they walked into his barn and found a headless, dressed out corpse of the 2nd woman hanging from a beam in the barn.
Ed spent the rest of his life in a mental institution. For a brief period his hone and belongings were a tourist destination, with people just taking his stuff until both the police and the townspeople put a stop to it.
"Can't you ask yo mama to help you?"
The mama IS helping... kinda
If you like Hitchcock, check out Rope, Dial 'M' For Murder, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, and of course The Birds.
Back when cars came with bench seats some people would get out of the car on the curbside to avoid opening the door and stepping out into traffic coming up from behind.
That you knew of Norman Bates (it's difficult not to) but not about him made this a really fun reaction to watch! Getting to watch the realization set in that Norman and Mother are one-in-the-same was an absolute priceless moment. One of the few reactions that takes me all the way back to the first time I watched the movie as a kid.
Ed Gein inspired so much craziness
I have seen the Bates Motel and the Bates House, that was about thirty years ago when I went to Universal Studios, California. They still looked creepy. Mother was still sitting in the window. Anthony Perkins did such a good job in this movie he was "typecast" and had a hard time getting roles. Watching this I realized for the first time, and I've seen this movie a few times, all the clues Norman gives when he's talking to Marion at dinner. J, please let us know how the mop works. Thank you.
“Bro, what the f*** are we gonna do for an hour?!?” absolutely took me out. 💀
There's 100 things every man needs to know to survive one of em is never rent a room from a man named bates
Hitchcock was a genius.
The lighting in this film, could never be pulled off, if it were in color.
There was an exact remake done in 1998 that was done in color, but it wasn’t that good.
Jamie Lee's momma gets slashed this time
No wonder she did those Halloween movies. Payback
@@hollycook5046A young Jamie Lee Curtis was considered for The Exorcist, but her mother declined due the language and content, so Jamie had to wait for Halloween to make her debut.
I can’t believe our boy is just now watching psycho
Driver Ed in 1950s said to get out of the car on the passenger side to avoid stepping into passing traffic. Then it becomes a habit, until bucket seats made us get out on the dangerous side.
Alfred Hitchcock was a man ahead of his time! He made some really stellar movies and reeled in some great talent! There used to be an Alfred Hitchcock building at Universal Studios Florida. They had recreated the set for the shower scene and reenacted it! They showed how Hitchcock used Hershey's Chocolate Syrup for blood because it had the perfect consistency to look realistic in black and white.
I'm truly surprised that this is your first Hitchcock!! Oh, well .. Down the rabbit hole you go. I suggest "The Birds" next. I truly enjoy watching your reviews!! ❤
Oh yeah ... You would like The Birds.
Jay, I absolutely love how when watching one of the greatest movies in American history one of your takeaways is a new idea for how to clean a bathtub! Priceless! When scraping the plate a mop is truly necessary. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Regarding your statement that Arbogast’s driver side door must be broken due to him always sliding over to exit on the passenger side but back during the 40s and 50s this was how many people got out of their cars. Don’t know why but in many tv shows and movies I’ve seen it done that way.
I'm not sure if the transmission was different or the car sat higher (I think the second), but there was no lump running lengthwise down the car. So it was easy to just slide across. (Cars of the '50's were BOATS!)
It's a safety thing. That is the curb side. You were actually required to enter and exit through the passenger side on your road test back then. I think that ended in the 70s or 80s.
@@johnnehrich9601 thank you for explaining it! I just knew I saw that in older movies and shows but never understood why🤭
Janet Leigh and her daughter (Jamie Lee Curtis) both have such iconic places in horror history.
"Hi I'm Norman Bates and I have a life hack for you all! Mopping. Bathtubs! First let's say you recently had a house guest that left a bit of a mess..."
Love the reaction!
You need to put 12 Angry Men on your list, the Private Detective from this is in it and it's one of the most timeless movies.. ever.
Psycho is a classic horror film that'll live forever. Great reaction bro! 👍🏿
Every body use to slide across the cars bench seats, beats the hell out of walking around.
You MUST watch come more Hitchcock films. I suggest "Notorious", "Vertigo", "Strangers on a Train", "Dial M for Murder", "The Birds", "North by Northwest", "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "Rear Window".
JAY😆, I bought a push room from Home Depot to scrub my bathroom tub… I’m not bending to hurt my back… try a pushbroom it’s the best
Oh the best scrub brushes! I use one to clean bird poop off the patio. Well, used. I got bird spikes 👍🏽
Now you have to watch Psycho 2, 3 and 4 the beginning... Great reaction!
2 is my favorite
@@erey214Mine too, it's fantastic!
In Halloween H20, Janet Leigh (Marion Crane in Psycho) who is Jamie Lee Curtis's mother in real life, played her secretary. You remember? She is driving the * exact same car* as in Paycho and she leaves and they play the music. (Go back and rewatch).
Dr. Loomis, In Halloween and Billy Loomis in SCREAM are all references to Sam Loomis.
Basically everything is a reference to this movie.
Watch PSYCHO II. It is an AMAZING sequel. Anthony Perkins reprises his role as Norman. It is an underrated classic.
When Billy used that quote in Scream, he followed it with 'Norman Bates, Psycho ' lol.
This movie is a legend imo. Anthony Perkins was a talented actor ahead of his time.
I’m so glad I came across your channel. It’s so much fun watching you enjoy these movies for the first time. It brings that excitement back to films I’ve watched so many times over.
The key to a great score on any movie is being able to perfectly pair the emotion or intensity of the scene with music. ❤ this one is done quite nicely for the time.
For sure. In old movies you can close your eyes and know what’s happening just by the music lol
Variety, 2023: 'Psycho best movie ever made.'
Janet Leigh - In 1980, she appeared alongside her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis in The Fog (1980), and later, in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Over the years, people who have watched this movie and recalled some of the scenes, remember and describe the shower scene in color. "The red blood washing down the drain."
That is some impact from a B&W movie.
Anthony Perkins's ex-wife died in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center. One of their sons played the "weird," nice, quiet guy in law school in Legally Blonde
Oz Perkins is a solid director as well. He's got a serial killer film starring Nicolas Cage called 'Longlegs' coming this year, and it looks TERRIFYING. Not jump scare terrifying but unsettling and grim.
The deworming orphans guy?? I liked him in that.
@@reservoirdude92 sounds good. Thanks for the heads up👍
What’s crazier is that psycho 2 is even better ❤
It bounces you back and forth so well questioning if Norman's crazy or not crazy . Are these things even really happening ? And it doesn't end leaving you wondering . You get the answer with another nice twist ending
100%
Behind the scenes, the sounds they used of her being stabbed in the shower were achieved by stabbing a cantaloupe.
Fun fact:Anthony Perkins became famous for a scene he didn't play.😊
The shower scene was played by a double. Anthony was offroad because of some business stuff when the scene was made.
He was always very amused about that.
Talk about a movie that holds up. Seeing you discover everything was a genuine thrill. Thank you so much. As a PSYCHO super fan it was the best start to my day. 💕
As a pit fighter of 30+ years, i would agree with you about crazy. However, when Norman knocked out Sam, Norman was Norman. When Sam stopped Norman, Norman was his mother. While crazy is unpredictable to fight, men can still overpower women in any state of mind. Hence why Norman didn't put up much of a fight while being his mother
16:47 Which makes sense since they were talking about horror movies in Scream.
Other Hitchcock movies to watch: Rear Window, The Birds, North by Northwest, Vertigo
and Frenzy!
My favorites of his include The Lady Vanishes and Dial M for Murder. All his movies have the Hitchcock touch but the story lines are all over place so you wouldn't get bored.
Back then, cars had bench seats in the front. This makes it easy to slide from the driver side to the passenger side with no problem. The detective driver side car was not damaged. That was just the way some people got out of the car.
Back then, the gears were on the steering wheel and not in the middle of the car like they are now.
You mentioned liking the music, the composer used all string instruments to create tension. love your channel.
In the shower scene the blade doesn´t even touch the victim´s body. The blood was chocolate sauce in reality. One advantage of black and white movies....
Cannot wait to see Jay's reaction when he finds out.
fun fact: this movie is one of the first to have dedicated start times. people used to be able to just walk in and out of cinemas with the films constantly repeating. hitchcock had to tell cinema managers to not let people in after the start of the film to not spoil the ending
Awwww I love that you love ZZAVID! it be you, Zzavid, chuzuus, and Amanda for me….plus mr. Video and Alex Hefner. Y’all take up so much of my time
I love how Busta Rhymes use the same beat for songs "give me some more"
3:39--the woman standing is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Pat
Janet Leigh was married to Tony Curtis
22:22--it's usually not mentioned, but that swamp water is awfully dark to hide a car in shallow water.
Well done! Hitchcock revisted a lot of this material in "Frenzy." Also "Rear Window" a thriller but not horror, check out more of Hitch.
I'm surprised how many people never saw this movie. It's a classic, and Hitch did a scary job.
I've seen Psycho so many times and not once did I think to use a mop in the bath until you said it, makes so much sense! 😁👍
You should check out Psycho 2. It's underrated as hell. It's not directed by Hitchcock, but Anthony Perkins returns as Norman Bates, and he is so good in it.
I'm so happy you watched this movie; I saw it first when I was 4 years old watched the munsters and was too scared of it. The name of Loomis came up and you made the reference to halloween, you don't know how right you were, because the star of this was jamie lee's mama, also there were several sequals with tony perkins playing norman and one of them had jennifer tilly in it; and i don't know if you enough chuckie movies yet .....
The mop does work very well in a shower-- I have tried it because when I was small I read all bent over crooked and now if I try to do something normal my back aches. one more thing both jamie and her mother were in a movie named the fog (1980).
I highly recommend Psycho 2, Psycho 3, and Psycho IV: The Beginning. None of them are as good as this, but Anthony Perkins is as good as he is here in all of them.
2 comes damn close though. Some even prefer that over the original.
@@PowderedVoltage The "cheese sandwiches" scene. Nothing in the original comes close to being that emotionally affecting.
I heard one argument that Norman freezing the way he did when Sam grabbed him had caused a psychotic break in his mind, destroying Norman's persona and cementing the stronger mother persona into his mind, hence the ending.
I always thought that Norman had a Tar Pit in his back yard. They have those in La Brea, California for instance.
One of Anthony Perkins' last films before conversion therapy was Mahogany opposite the great singer/actress Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams. He would pass away a few years later from complications brought on by AIDS.
Poor man had a rough life. It’s so sad they had to hide who they were and conversion therapy is terrible!
Conversion therapy?? I knew he was gay but dang. 😢😢
And now you must put Psycho II in rotation. It's a true and well thought out sequel that manages to expand on the lore of the first film; taking place something like, 22 years later. It isn't Hitch levels of masterful, but it's damn well written and directed, and acted.
Ok, this movie was made in black and white to basically get past the censors. In 1960, even in black and white this was movie struggled to get past the censors for release. Hitchcock made his first color film in 1948 (Rope), 12 years earlier.
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the best film directors of all time. His is referred to as the Master of Suspense. He made 54 feature films in his long career and it is very hard to name even a top five for fans without disagreeing because he has made so many good ones.
my recommendations;
1963 The Birds
1959 North by Northwest (The James Bond people borrowed heavily from this film.)
1958 Vertigo (on many best film lists)
1955 The Trouble With Harry (An inconvenient corpse)
1954 To Catch a Thief (Style, Sophistication, suspense, romance, and humor)
1954 Rear Window (don’t miss this one)
1953 Dial M for Murder
1951 Strangers on a Train (strangers swap murders?)
1948 Rope (Two men murder a friend and then have a party with his corpse in the room)
1946 Notorious (Twisted spy tale, terrific cast.)
1943 Shadow of a Doubt (what if you discover your favorite uncle is a serial killer?)
1940 Rebecca (Hitchcock’s first American film, won Oscar for Best Picture)
I use a spin brush and a mop for my shower. The flat spin head is good for kitchen cabinets and floors. The toilet and the floor around it, too. I'm too old and arthritic to be down on my knees. You can bleach the spin heads clean when you're finished. Glad you finally got to see this. It came on TV the first time in 1969 or 70, when I was around 10. It wasn't edited that I can remember. It was the first time I saw a toilet in a movie or on TV.
The way I kept laughing when you said..why are THEY yelling like that