Psycho 1960 Filming Locations - Then and Now 4K
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2021
- Join us as we visit the filming locations for the 1960 movie PSYCHO. Directed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock, PSYCHO was filmed in Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles, California.
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Psycho is and always will be my favorite horror film of all time. What makes me love it, is the ending when Norman stares at the camera and slowly turns that face into a smile. Its so twisted , and didn't involve any blood or guts, just truly cinematic art. The best !
Spooky and scary scene. Best ever
joelampo 1 psycho is also remembered for the famous shower scene . where the lady is showering and then he plunges her with the knife and then you hear her scream .
Well made, no loud music, no speed talking, good video, able to concentrate and follow his story.
I watched that movie at a drive in theater in the early 60’s. I loved it!
The shower scene still gives me chills.. great video guys 👍
MICHAEL AND JESSICA..... This video deserves an award. The information, scene lineup's and time that was taken is amazing. I lived in Arizona for 15 year's and didn't know I was walking those same streets where the movie was filmed. You both are awesome and would like to see your channel continue to grow in viewership and contributions.
Absolutely
So true ! These two have one of the sickest CZcams channels love this stuff
I so totally echo Dan "The Breaking News Man". "Psycho" has been a fascination of mine since - believe it or not - the release of "Jaws". And that is because the audience reaction to "Jaws" was compared to that of "Psycho", so naturally it got me curious (I was 15 when "Jaws" was released). I must have been a Pioneer in the "Psycho" fascination category, cause in just a few years a sequel was announced (and Part II is very good btw), and a book on the making of the film would be released around 1989 I believe. I don't know whether to yell "Spoiler" - but one of the most fascinating things I learned about the making of the movie was this: It was well known that Perkins was in New York rehearsing for a play when the shower scene was filmed. It wasn't until just before the book was published that we learned that the person who doubled for Perkins........was a woman. Now why tell you all this? Because this video is proof to me there were STILL things to learn about the making of a movie that nobody associated with the film could ever have predicted 62 years ago. To them, this was just a small budget high-quality quickly-made film that they didn't think would make movie history. I think even the makers of the movie would have been blown away by the thought, research, and execution of this video. I don't know what else to say other than "OMG Michael and Jessica. Great Job!!!"
The "Psycho" house gives me the chills just looking at it.
I just finished watching the documentary The making of Psycho. Thanks so much for this presentation. You are always so spot on. I love the nostalgia. I'm actually happy the old hotel or building is still in Phoenix for the opening shot. I need to see that someday. 1959 and 1960 were so much more of a simpler time in America. Always relish it.
Very cool!... One of my favorite movies!... Thanks for posting!
Don't forget... "We all go a little mad sometimes... Haven't you?" - Norman Bates.
My name's Norman ,and ,yes .I must admit to eating After 8 Mints at 6.40 .
So awesome to see where a cinema masterpiece was shot. To me, it's holy ground.
This is one Tennessean who absolutely loves the various shooting locations in and around the LA area. At 67, I become a kid in remembering the scenes such as we have experienced in this tour.
Okay Jimmy thank you
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Interesting Fact:
Bernard Hermann was the composer who wrote the score for Psycho and what set him apart from his contemporaries in 1960, is that he demonstrated through the famous “Psycho Suite” that one didn’t need a complete orchestra (woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, etc) to create a score which was the common belief and practice.
He relied on strings ONLY and it was very effective thus becoming one of the most famous film scores in history of cinema.
Also Hitchcock’s wife often assisted her famous husband with some of the film editing. When they reviewed the shower scene with the close-up of Janet Leigh’s eye, she discovered that Leigh’s eye was following the camera slightly which would have ruined the illusion of her character being dead, so they had to re-shoot the scene being sure her eye remained perfectly still.
It was Herrmann's intention to "complement the black-and-white photography with a black-and-white score", according to his biographer Steven Smith.
Reference: www.npr.org/2000/10/30/1113215/bernard-herrmanns-score-to-psycho
Out of the 26 takes of the camera moving away from Janet Leigh's eye, they deemed only 1 to be usable; and in that one, they discovered after production she took a breath. In covering it they needed to cut away to the shower head.
Reference: www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/psycho-shower-scene-alfred-hitchcock
Hey Moony what makes you Loony ? (Grin Wink Wink) 😉
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That would be Irish Car Bombs…
and ¿ did you know that carpenter copied psycho for his halloween 78?
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In what way did he copy Psycho?
As an avid Psycho and Hitchcock fan, I salute this awesome video and your hard work in putting it together! What a gem!
I still check for prep holes when I stay at a hotel or motel and camera lol too many horror movies
I just wanted to say thank you both for taking the time to film all these great locations for us!
No-one has ever spoken like Hitchcock before or since. Absolute legend.
A lot of people don’t know this, but the place where the man stops in the middle of the cross walk and stares at the woman in the car was influence for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction’s Marcellus Wallace stopping in the middle of the cross walk and staring at Butch when he was trying to get away after going back to get his father’s watch that his girlfriend mistakenly left in his apartment
Very true !
Thats a pretty obvious reference
Wow very cool!!!
He's known for stealing things from old films ( though young fans have no idea ). Also he stole the briefcase idea from "Kiss Me Deadly."
I knew that
I did a VIP tour at Universal Studios with my Mum in 2006, & we stopped off & walked around the Psycho part of the backlot tour, which was an amazing experience. I was also fortunate enough to have seen it as a kid without knowing any of the twists.
I'm a HUGE Hitchcock fan and a California girl. I love seeing all these local spots and knowing Hitch was filming there. So cool. 💗💗
Ha, I've been on that tram tour back in the early 80s. The house was incredibly eerie. We were just out of high school and we were hitting all the hot spots,Universal studios,Hollywood sign, wax museum, Disneyland, Knottsberry Farm, everything. We even made it to Burbank and were in the audience for a game show "can't remember the name". We also went and made it to the tonight show. Greatest vacation ever. Thanks so much for your hard work making this video. Brings back great memories.😉
Oh boy! Thank you ❤️ I just watched this film a few days ago 🔪 One of my all-time favorites.
Oh boy
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"We all go a little mad sometimes". Such a great and iconic line. Fun fact: The original location of the Psycho house on the Universal backlot is where the Chicken Ranch (House of a 1000 Corpses) sits today. Just above the JAWS lake. Fantastic video, Michael!!!
@@blueplanet6542 True. But maybe not everyone took the tram tour.......bruh!
@BoxingGenis You are welcome. Would LOVE to visit England one day.Cheers!!
@@blueplanet6542 Pump your brakes lil Squad. He's helping out people who have never been to Universal Studios.
"A boy's best friend is his Mother."
@@efandmk3382 Yes. A great, if not somewhat creepy, line!
Great stuff! This channel sets the standard for movie locations! I also get that buzz when seeing unchanged areas used in films, especially when so much time has passed! I was in Rome in 2013 and made a point of checking out all the areas used in William Wyler's 'Roman Holiday' starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, 60 years earlier in 1953. Unsurprisingly, everything was exactly the same. As you say, it was crazy cool!
Rome is not LA, it never changes.
This was FANTASTIC... the best video of it's kind I've yet seen. I particularly liked your use of B&W (oh, how I miss it), along with Bernard Herrmann's incredible, haunting score. Kudos!
Btw, I had ALWAYS thought that those dry, empty hills in "Psycho" looked a lot like Gorman (which I learned from you that they were), that I would always pass by on my way to Frazier Park, a beautiful, pine tree-filled mountain area just north of there where John Schneider of "Dukes of Hazzard" now lives. I've never seen hills that like look like these, as barren as the moon.
I'm curious if the owners of the current dealership even knew they were a shooting location for "Psycho"? Your use of Hermann's brilliant score reminds us of just how essential his music is to Hitchcock's films. Your future visit to SF should be interesting for "Vertigo." Sooo many locations for that movie are still around. Great stuff!
I went to visit the apartment from Vertigo in SF. It has been completely remodeled and a high wall is around the property now. I heard the owners got tired of people taking photos.
I'm sure the dealership knows
Plenty of videos online about locations for this movie..
In one of them, as they are showing the dealership, you can see lots of people in the background taking pictures also
Musical scores of Hitchcock was brilliant. Nice observation.
@@stuartdunn4365 Right. I saw that last time I was in SF (2019). It's right after you take the tourists' drive down the curvy Lombard street. (on the left).
The genius is that you can experience the movie twice with 2 different feels. 1st time is the shock of the final reveal, 2nd view you know he's bat shit crazy and it has a whole new creepiness.
The black & white was perfect for this video! Good stuff!
I remember seeing the Psycho house on top of the hill during the tour at Universal Studios in 1980
It was still on top of the hill in June 1989 when I was there. Even with my average camera, I got some great shots of it!!
@@juliepetersen7974 Me too. I was10 and used one of those disposable cameras 📷
… and I was surprised how small it was!
The inspiration for the Psycho house came from the Edward Hopper painting The House By the Railroad 1925
Interesting thanks! : )
@@caveman3021 Please see my reply to that somewhat common misinformation about the inspirtation for the Bates house in Psycho, from Hitchcock himself, circa 1966.
That was fun, thanks. Psycho is my favorite Hitchcock film and it was great to see the filming locations then and now.
This is AMAZING ! Thank you so much. This is very very very interesting. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Love From Sweden 🇸🇪
I love Psycho Norman Bates plus I love the mother and the music threw the Trilogy
I love how in the tram tour, you can always see ‘Mother’ in the upper window of the Psycho House
I have seen Psycho about 100 times, and after seeing your presentation, I will now notice the architectural details and telephone poles that were mere background before. (Why the "air quotes" at 8:38? She WAS tired!) It is also fun to notice small, deliberately chosen details. like the way Marion wears her wristwatch. Thanks!
Great call to do the video in black & white. It made the comparison between the timelines come to life. Always watching, enjoying your videos. Thanks for the hard work.
Totally BLOWN AWAY. Every time I saw this on TV as a kid the first sequence was missing. The movie started just as she drives away and sees he boss cross the street. EXCELLENT!
Thank you for this homage to Hitchcock's Psycho. It is my favorite of his films.
Recently found you - your Birds & Psycho vlogs are THE BEST Film Location videos I have ever seen!! Your research and attention to details are amazing! Film clips, splicing & editing are better than the "professionals". Think what I enjoy most is your passion in narration & what you do! Love the classics - looking forward to your video on Vertigo.
Brilliantly done. You guys keep getting better and better.
Literally my favorite director and one of my favorite movies of all time. Hitchcock was the innovator of modern horror. He did everything first. Thank YOU for these great videos. Iconic
Holy crap @11:12 I was actually stuck at this intersection on my most recent road trip. I took the Gorman Road exit to avoid an overturned big rig on I-5N and didn't want to be stuck in the miles long traffic. I had no clue Hitchcock filmed a scene here for Psycho. What made me remember was the gas station and the grassy hilly side as I was looking up at the other vehicles stuck in traffic. What a trip!
Omg love!!! Please please please do a Vertigo locations tour. That one is my fave of all of Hitchcock’s movies. So much so that I named my daughter Madeleine. I took her to the mission San Juan Bautista where a good chunk if action occurred when she was one.
Hell yeah, this will drown my pain for 18 and half minutes. Needed this!
Love the black and white filming. Very clever. It also brings out the high quality of your camerawork and cinematography.
Very Cool. Psycho is one of my favorite movies. It's a classic. Great directing, great acting, amazing camera work and beautifully haunting music.
I've always liked films which featured criminals who run afoul of someone (or something) worse than the criminals. Corman, Hitchcock and Tarantino used such a plotline. I saw "Psycho" when it first premiered. Thank you, Alfred Hitchcock, cast/crew, Bernard Herrmann, and Universal Studios. Thanks, grimmlifecollective.
So cool..I love Anthony Perkins & the Physcho movies are one of my faves ...thanks for showing the locations ..love your channel..love you both..stay safe...stay awesome 🥰☮️✌️
I was so excited to see this....couldn't click on this fast enough. Great work once again. And Jessica is beautiful and stylish as always.
You are absolutely the best with these little wonderful video trips. You do your homework. Yes that Psycho house still gives me the creeps..when I was seven in 1964 I stayed up late with my mom who feel asleep about 11pm. I stayed up and started to watch a movie on my mom's portable TV. As I began to watch this harmless story about a nice lady a cop following her I was the king of late night kids staying up late award! Then came the shower scene. Wow nudity! My mom still deep in sleep. Then came the figure. Then the knife. The music. The horror. I hid under covers. Then the staircase scene. After weeks of nightmares my parents search the TV guide an were aghast! "Billy watch Psycho". It took me fifty years to watch it again with my 13 year old son who loved it!! Just thought I'd share it because you share so much with us. Thanks. Love you guys.
Great story!! Thanks for sharing.👍
During Horror Nights, they used to let you walk up the stairs to the mansion and interact with a Norman character. A dream come true for any discerning horror fan!
I'm hoping that the terror tram comes back this year so you can do this again
Once again great work you two but one thing I thought was strange there was no traffic in Phoenix.
I'm one of those people you mention in your video, I stop by that very exit in Gorman two to three times a week for my lunch break at the Carl's jr. and had no idea part of Psycho was filmed there.
You're the best Michael, one of my favorite movie of all time 🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯
I've read that the dates the events of "Psycho" are taking place were changed to ones in December, precisely because Christmas decorations were up when the intersection scene was filmed.
I remember those cross your heart giant bras lol foundation garment
It always satisfied my whole appetite when you Hitchcock. You are so DEAD on.
This movie a true classic and I never get tired of watching it. Awesome job and research on this video.
Love your videos! Started this morning with SALEMS LOT and now CZcams proposes me your PSYCHO video. Great work! Greetings from Belgium
Great movie that's still creepy today, more than sixty years later! John Carpenter's Halloween series owes such a huge debt to this. Also, it was nice meeting you guys at the meetup at Halloween Depot last night. I was the guy with the Plan 9 T-shirt.
Loved how they made out Norman Bates coming out carrying the girl from motel room, then to walk towards the tram, the Tour ladys acting was good too :) made me chuckle lol
Awesome thank you for sharing 👍🏴
Such a good film and I feel the remake with Vince is still a nice tribute to the original. I had no idea Perkins died of AIDS.
The Bates Motel series was also pretty cool. I just love these tributes to the films.
I think at the time they glossed over it a bit as the disease was still fairly new. What I think is kind of ironic is that he was busted for cocaine and LSD a few times. You kind of expect cocaine in 80s Hollywood, but Norman Bates caught with LSD? Its almost fitting! ; )
@@caveman3021 yea that's a fair point. Probably was glossed over like you said but probably because it was something they'd never really faced.
Yea haha that's kinda ironic. Hollywood back then must have been crazy.
I watched the remake a few years back while on a leave of absence from work. Vince did a great job as Norman, I thought. My knee was really messed up but the movie made me forget about the pain a little.
@@finishin.my.coffee8780 I mean the movie was a shot for shot remake. Was nice to see vince in a more serious role than seeing him in comedy. Sorry to hear about the knee, hope it's healed etc now.
@@beckscald3855 I've only seen bits and pieces of the original, so luckily I didn't have any expectations when I saw the remake. Thanks for the well wishes. The knee isn't quite the same. I had surgery but physical therapy didn't go as well as I'd hoped. To this day I can't fully bend it and I still get pain when I do a lot of walking.
This is my absolute all time favorite movir
I'm a big scary movie watcher. Nothing scares me so far of movies. But when I was a teen and watched "Psycho" I had a hard time going in the shower as we had a shower curtain. I was happy when you could get glass doors. hehe....I super love all your video's. I'm trying to get thru them all and be caught up. Your video's are amazing!!! Love you guys!
I've never watched Psycho. I've seen the shower scene of course and a few minutes here and there, but never the entire movie. Your video has sparked my interest, I'll have to watch it now! Thanks for the great video!
Bloomin’ marvellous video. Great picture quality and production values as always. I love the original Psycho but as somebody previously commented, there’s something extra special about Psycho II.
There was a big chance they could have screwed it up, and they didn't! I also loved Psycho 2 : )
I loved Psycho 2 as well. Good call guys!!👍
Well done…explaining the aura (it’s place in time and space) in Hitchcock’s art!
What fun! For my birthday in 1960 my Mom took me and a friend to downtown Chicago for lunch and a movie. We saw Psycho and Thirteen Ghosts in 3D. I've been traumatized ever since! Years later I asked Mom why she took us to see Psycho, she just shrugged and said, "It was Hitchcock, who knew?"
What I cant believe is how few cars there are in that intersection and in that area of phoenix in general. Hardly any cars passed you when filming. Crazy!
I lived in the Phoenix area for over 40 years and recognize every street and building that you showed. During my time there, the Phoenix area has exploded in size and freeways. When I got there, the only freeway that went through Phoenix was I-17. Initially, the west side of town only extended to around 43rd Ave. Now it goes past 150th Ave. If you go to Phoenix, don't forget to see the flashing neon "Vacancy" sign, south of the Durango curve on I-17. That sign is over the Durango Street Jail.
I also visited Universal Studios and saw the house. At the time, the house was on a hill. The tour guide said that the house was actually 3/4 scale to make the house look further away and creepier. You can't go in the house because it mostly just a frame.
I still live in Phoenix, and have walked those areas many a times
The vacancy sign is no longer here
What a pity @@susannyysti869
The way you transition from scene to location is so well done!
You guys are the very best at doing then and now shots and framing your work, both visually and with great info.
Okay Amy you too! Thanks for
Everything
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I luv all your videos! Very informative! Your videos should be in the "Extras" in the DVD movie or blu-ray.
Keep up the good work!! 👍👍
Jessica looks like a classic Hollywood star in black and white! Dope video guys!
I'm sure someone's told you before but you always remind me of Jim Carrey. Thanks for this video. One of my fav horror/thriller movies. So scary at the end, in the cellar. Still brings me to tears of fright!
Thank you…and yes, lol, I get it all the time. I think at some point we need to get Jim on the show
@@grimmlifecollective LOL. Glad I am not alone. :) Thanks for the reply! :)
Great video again guys. 👍
Can’t believe I’ve never watched Psycho.
I remember as a lil kid my parents took us to universal studios and on the tram tour we went by the psycho house on the "psycho path" and Anthony Perkins who plays Norman Bates was standing near the house. I guess they were filming some promo that day. Years later I asked my mom about it and she said the tour guide had told us all that we were very lucky to have been there that day because it was really him.
I wish we would have had to a camera or something back then. So cool.
Thank you for all the effort you guys put in to make this fantastic video. As a decades-long "Psycho" geek, this was awesome to see!
That is super cool. I've been to Gorman, California many times while going to and from LA and didn't have a clue. I would love to see you do one from the 1971 Movie Duel starring Dennis Weaver. The attention to detail is spectacular.
I used to live in Phoenix and walked by that building everyday and never knew that I was walking past film history. Pretty Cool.
As a kid this scared me to death, now I watch it at Halloween every year. My favorite childhood movie.
You never cease to amaze. Thank you for all your hard work and delivering great content!
Thank you very much for uploading your filming location trips. I enjoy alot to watch them.
HELLO. WOW THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SHOW US THE FAMOUS LOCATIONS. PSYCHO IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES. GREAT VIDEO. DONE VERY WELL.
Brilliant ! one of my favourite Hitchcock movies ,spot on as always.well done!
They're 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.'
"THE END"
Only one correction in your quote of monologue by Mother- "YOU'RE not even gonna swat that fly..."
I love how you're so meticulous in lining up shots from then and now! Its so satisfying!!! : )
Hershey's chocolate syrup was used as blood in the shower as it had the right consistency and showed up better on the black and white film. I've heard Hitchcock could have shot it in colour if he wanted too, but he felt it would be too gory. Someone else with a good eye for detail built an exact replica of the house and motel in Aldergrove, British Columbia in order to shoot Bates Motel. Sadly I just checked Google and it looks like they took it down. (Was hoping they'd leave it up for tourists) Great video as always...and love the black and white! Happy Halloween!
Another advantage of using Hershey's chocolate syrup for blood in the shower scene was that it had just been released for the first time in a plastic squeeze bottle, making it much easier to squirt into the shower. Before that it was sold in cans - which I remember - which obviously was not as easy to use.
Highly watchable! A movie lovers dream!
By far the absolute most remarkable, detailed, and well-explained film-location video ever produced. You excel at what you do!
Never fail to impress with your movies. Thank you from Australia.
Thanks. That was a fun video. I’ve been on the backlot tour, and saw Norman loading someone in the trunk of the car. Norman came up toward our tram and frightened us off, too. Great memories. 😎
Now we're talkin!
I love the attention to detail. Just found your channel like a month ago and its great!
Exactly the same for me.
I just found it today and subscribed after watching like 4 videos. It's so much fun to watch these videos. Something we all wish we had the time to do.
Same!
GRIMM this is a masterpiece . Jesus bless you !
Great film, and attention to detail. Keep up the great work you both do.
I love the black and white quality of the video. It's a nice touch and shows dedication.
Love this video about a classic film and one of my favorites. Love the period fashions, hairstyles, cars, architecture. And the eerie music adds a lot of mystery and suspense to the film.
Amazing attention to detail in your videos..brilliant..i get glued to the screen like watching a horror film.
Fantastic video as always! Psycho being such an iconic film, it's interesting to see the locations then and now. ✌️❤️🤘
I seen this not long after it was released. Surely scared the hell out of me.!😟..you line up your locations perfectly..💯👍👍
At 4:08, you have the right building, the right floor, but clearly the wrong window. From left to right, it had to be either the 5th or 13th window. Here's why I say that:
1) At 3:43, you can briefly see in the bottom left corner that the shot doesn't start at the left edge of the building so there must be at least two windows off screen to the left. The first window being shown on that floor at 3:43 (two to the left of the zoomed in window) must either be the 3rd or 11th window.
2) That wall protrusion on the left side of the screen at 3:43 is narrow, as is the next protrusion directly to the left of the window the camera zooms in on. This means that if the actual window they zoomed in on was on the left side of the building, it can only be the 5th window. And if the actual window they zoomed in on was on the right side of the building, it can only be the 13th.
3) The overhang directly above the windows on that floor is straight except above windows 7 and 8, where it protrudes out along with the facing of the building. In the movie, the overhang is smooth to the right and left of the zoomed in window, ruling out the 9th window, which has the protruding overhang to the left above the 8th window.
4) Lastly, it can't be the 9th window as you claim because the protrusion (where the 7th and 8th windows are located) is wide. Not narrow like in the movie. Therefore, it can only be the 5th or 13th window. But which one of those two, we may never know for sure. Not sure if I explained this well because I'm not familiar with architectural terms. Great video though. Enjoyed it a lot.
Great job guys! I remember seeing another Psycho locations video many years ago, and I remember how heartbroken I was to find out the house was just a facade!!
A friend of mine went to California in the 80s and she took a pic for me as she knew it was my fave. She told me it was a facade back then, but I chose to remain in denial lol : )
Has your heart mended?
Your just silly....SiLLy I tell ya!
@@mattmaly5085 Oh yes Im over it now. But those were dark years..
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