The music, the setting, the shower scene, the mother in the cellar... everything about this iconic film has passed into cinema history.
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09/19/07
Psycho (1960)
98 %
Reviews Counted: 58 Fresh: 57 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.9/10
Consensus:
Infamous for its shower scene, but immortal for its contribution to the horror genre. Because Psycho was filmed with tact, grace, and art, Hitchcock didn't just create modern horror, he validated it.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Story: Robert Bloch
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Joseph Stefano
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Story: Robert Bloch
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Joseph Stefano
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
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Gripping and irrevocably gruesome fare played to perfection by a top notch cast.
06/13/01
Top Critic
Hitchcock introduced the American Nightmare strain into the genre. He also revived the fast-fading art of montage with the now legendary shower sequence.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Time may have dulled the shock, but the craft is as impressive as ever.
01/01/08
Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece blends a brutal manipulation of audience identification and an incredibly dense, allusive visual style to create the most morally unsettling film ever made.
09/19/07
Janet Leigh, stalking around in pointy brassieres, making bird-gestures, and flirting with the coprophobic Perkins, is one of cinema's most deliciously perverse pleasures.
08/07/06
The prolific, adventurous Hitchcock, who never tired of experimenting with his camera and tone, is at his best in Psycho.
04/08/05
If Hitchcock had used a pseudonym on Psycho, it would have announced the arrival of a great new filmmaker in his twenties.
10/19/04
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