I mst horror movies the characters are too curious for their own good. Even if it's a murderer knocking at the door they have to open it. Also they can never stay together.
@@jerryhall5709 "Quick! Let's go hide in that barn with all the sharp tools!" (killer shakes his head and sighs, weary of the predictability of stupidity)
@@vilefly Yes, and even if they have the whole Amazon rainforest to hide in they still can't get away. Somehow they always bump into the enemy no matter how unlikely it is.
A woman wrote a letter to Hitchcock "My daughter saw a film where a girl was killed in the bathtub, and she refuses to take a bath. Now she has seen Psycho and won't take a shower either!! What do you recommend?" Hitchcock wrote back " Send her to the dry cleaners" 😂
Janet Leigh was Jamie Lee Curtis' mother. Her father was actor Tony Curtis. Both Janet and Jamie starred together in John Carpenter's creepy classic "The Fog."
My little sister went to University Of the Pacific when Jamie Lee Curtis was a student there and played pool with once at the student union. Jamie Lee Curtis won. When I asked my sister what she was like, she said "She seems like a very nice thug" meaning she seemed nice but earthy and tough.
With the way you were so impressed with Arbogast, you are now contractually obligated to watch (1957, NOT the remake) "12 Angry Men." Martin Balsam is also in that one. It is also black and white, number 5 on IMDB's list , and features 12 all-star performers in an absolute classic drama. Every single line of dialog is natural and believable, and the story line is great.
Yes, 12 Angry men is one of the greatest films. All brilliant actors at the height of their abilities. Brilliant direction and cinematography. It never ages with repeat viewing.
@@billolsen4360I like him in that, "All The President's Men" (reunites with Juror #7, Jack Warden), "The Anderson Tapes", "A Thousand Clowns" (won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) and "12 Angry Men".
I think that's what made Psycho shower scene so iconic. Being in the shower everyone and especially women are totally vulnerable and showing a murder, even with the gore only suggested was probably very shocking in 1960, and remains so today.
I had a student who claimed that his mother waited until he was taking a shower to hit him for doing something wrong. You're more vulnerable then. I wonder if she got the idea from this movie... (And yes, I reported it.)
I recommend chasing Hitchcock with Fritz Lang's M, or maybe one of the classic pulp film noirs of the 40s like Farewell My Lovely ("Murder, My Sweet" is the US title, they had a whole thing of releasing films with entirely different titles in the UK and USA back then...), for some contrast.
Of those mentioned in this thread I'd agree on Vertigo and Rope. But he did many other films that are underrated. Why is Shadow of a Doubt ignored so much?
You have the 'it' factor. I watch a lot of these types of vids and you are much better than the average. I hope you can make a living out of it, cause you are damn good at it.
"Why am I STRESSED!?" Aha! Welcome to the work of Alfred Hitchcock. He's not called The Master of Suspense for no reason! Seriously, you really can't go wrong with any of his films.
Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director. "Vertigo", "Rear Window", "North By Northwest", "Rope", "Shadow Of A Doubt", "Strangers On A Train"..so many films I love.
wouldn't choose Psycho as an introduction as it's kind of a self-examination and kind of a culmination of the morbid obsessions that his films had always been about. Same with rear Widow, Vertigo, all very meta. Most perfect hitchcock film imo, most flawless execution of his style while not as ground breaking as those other films I mentioned, is Notorious
“Did he kill my sister?” “Yes. And no.” “ But my sister is-?” “Yes.” 🤷🏻♂️ Joking aside, I’ve never seen this before and I’m pleasantly surprised at how smart and snappy the dialogue is. Also you’re right, the characters are also smart. I’ve heard it said that a lot of newer movies depend on their characters being dumb but not this one. I really enjoyed your reaction. 👏
Welcome to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. There is a reason he is considered the father, master, king, of suspense. No one has done it better, not before or since. Some have done it as well, but there has been none better than Hitchcock.
Your point is illustrated very nicely when the psychologist mentions the word matricide and she felt it necessary to interrupt the video and tell her viewers what it meant. I even saw a young movie reactor who, upon seeing a close up of a letter written in cursive, said "What is that writing?" Wow!
@@dggydddy59 Is it really fair to call out the ignorance of other people when there are still things you don't know? For example, do you know the meaning of the word, pseudarthrosis? This was one of the first words I learned when i was learning to talk. If a 3-year-old knows this word, then anyone who doesn't know the meaning must be an ignorant dolt, right? Or perhaps it is just a word you have never encountered before. Lucky you. Because the meaning of this word is why my leg was amputated a week after my 3rd birthday.
@@erictaylor5462 Hey, I'm real sorry about your leg, I had a friend who had hers amputated below the knee and I saw up close how much it bothered her. But you're making assumptions about someone who is a total stranger based on nothing. And yes, it absolutely IS legitimate to agree with someone about the dumbing down of the country, of which I mentioned a couple of very benign examples.
Great reaction Whim. It's so wonderful to see someone who knows nothing of the story reacting to it. So many plot points are so famous that its rare to see that. You got an experience few have had since the original run. Now you know why Hitchcock is known as the Master of Suspense. Some other movies of his you may like are Notorious, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, and To Catch a Thief.
Janet Leigh was nominated for an Academy Award for this part, but Anthony Perkins was not. Hitchcock called Perkins directly and said "You were robbed". He's brilliant in this film.
“I never carry around more than I can afford to lose.” “Challenge accepted.” Thanks for making me laugh out loud. Seriously, though, I enjoyed watching your reaction to and appreciation of this movie. I believe you’re in the right track with Norman deciding which room to put her in. He’s wrestling with himself on whether to harm her or not.
I think at that point he's Norman and doesn't want to harm her... but deciding whether or not to spy on her. That's him trying to be a "good boy" but in the end he can't help himself. Then "Mother" takes over and punishes him for being a naughty boy. That's at least how I've always interpreted it.
@@Whimsory 12 Angry men is a smart thought provoking movie, its "just your cup of tea" British expression the American equivalent would be something like "right up your ally" . Or if you have watched Pulp Fiction "Yeah baby, you'd dig it the most."
Her co-worker is Alfred Hitchcock's real life daughter. $40,000 in 1960 is $412,309.46 today. The cops go back to their car to run your ID through the computer. No computers back then. Back then the license plates stayed with the car. She was buying a new car to get new plates. When the cop showed up at the dealership, there really wasn't a need anymore. Some people think the voice over is what Marion's imagining. I never took it that way. I took it as actually happening and gives us that exposition. Hitchcock loved for the viewer to always have more information than the characters. That's one of his trademarks for the suspense. Marion's toilet flush was the first one in cinema history. The blood in the shower was chocolate syrup. I'm sure others have already said Janet Leigh is Jamie Lee Curtis' mom.
A simple trick to figure out the value of money in old films is to pay attention to what they are buying with it. $40,000 is the price that the father was paying for a house. Just think of the price of a house today and you will have an approximation of the value of $40,000 in 1960.
@@GarthKlein Except I can buy a 4 bed/4 bath house 3 car garage on 5 acres here in small town Missouri for $250k or I can get a 900sq ft 1 bed/1 bath no garage home in LA for $700k. It's just easier to Google "1960's x,xxx dollars today"
Jaimie Lee Curtis became famous in the Halloween movies. The boyfriends name in Psycho is Sam Loomis. The doctor (Donald Pleasants) tracking down Michael Myers in Halloween is Dr. Loomis.
For me the ending is the scariest part. With norm in the cell thinking to himself in his mothers voice. "I'm not even gonna 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." That piece of writing is terrifying.
Coupled with the image of his (her) glowering smile, that morphs into a quick image of Mother's desiccated skull (just before the car is towed out of the swamp), it's a heartstopping moment.
One thing that amazes me is the stupid arrogance of so many reactors - wonderfully NOT Whimsory - proclaiming that "Audiences back then must have been SO SHOCKED" yet we see EXACTLY that "so shocked!" reaction from the oh-so-modern, oh-so-intelligent reactors of Today. What crap. I wish they could accept that audiences then were EXACTLY like they are now. SHOCKED. HORRIFIED. Walking out, shaken - "I did NOT expect that!!" And every formal review of PSYCHO mentioned also 'the death of The Star'. Yet none of them look at the name of the film and see "Starlet In Shower". It's always another name: "Psycho".
Great reaction and great commentary. Your approach of using the IMDb ranked list is especially promising. Reactors who operate too much from viewer polls tend to get very repetitive titles, whereas the IMDb list provides great selections that are regularly bypassed in “viewer popularity” polls, for whatever reasons. I hope you’ll get around to reacting to ‘The Birds’. It’s very original and highly effective, especially given the early production year.
This is one of the most influential films for future writers, directors, cinematographers, etc, not just with suspense/horror/thriller but with films in general.
Marion's early death was a huge twist, as Janet Leigh was a big star and billed to be the main character of the movie. Also, there were MANY people who didn't want to take a shower after seeing this....including me. 😳 Great reaction as always Whimsory!! You're one of my favorites! 😊
Another fun reaction, Whimsory! "Don't take a shower!" 😂 Fun fact: The Doors song "L.A. Woman" has a line in it that references this movie.... "Motel, Money, Murder, Madness...Let's change the mood from glad to sadness..."
I probably shouldn't be surprised by this but I think it's really cool that you're open-minded enough to watch a movie from 60 years ago and enjoy it enough to place it in your top 3 favourite movies you've watched on the channel. That's awesome. :)
Pyscho II is a very, very good sequel. Anthony Perkins (Norman) and Vera Miles (Lila) both come back, and it is an incredible mix of what made the original great in combination with updating it to what would be expected by contemporary 80s horror audiences. Pyscho II is pretty beloved now to horror fans and a worthy follow up. It plays with the idea of 22 years later and how Norman deals with being released 22 years later while Lila wants him to remain committed. Hope you check it out! It is almost as great as Aliens was to Alien as far as sequels go by catching up with beloved characters while also updating the ideas.
Bernard Hermann did brilliant music for Psycho, North by Northwest, and Vertigo. In all three, his music accompanies the innovative graphics of the great Saul Bass.
Thanks for an unjaded reaction and a wonderful job of editing. You showed important excerpts which describe the characters that other reactors don't, e. g in the opening scene and during Norman and Marian's conversation. The commentary is unique and fascinating, and I wish you could have continued. Hopefully later you will treat us to more thoughts about other Hitchcock films(!hint!), such as The Birds and Rear Window.
This film is so ingenious that even after watching it several times, you still won't have noticed everything that Hitchcock has put into place visually - and he did it on purpose. For example, Hitchcock used birds as metaphors in many of his films, as harbingers that something bad is about to happen. In Psycho, this is particularly strong: The film begins in Phoenix, which is also a mythical bird. The last name of Marion's is Crane. Norman Bates loves to stuff birds, his office is full of them. "Stuffing birds" is an English term for getting a girl laid (Hitchcock was English). And after Norman sees Marion's body in the bathroom, he tears down the picture of a bird hanging on the wall in shock. Symbolism at its finest. Another motif of the film is mirrors, or refracted reflections. Furthermore, Hitchcock had a panic fear of the police, which is also reflected in the scenes with the policeman. And if you look very closely, in the scene where Marion packs her suitcase in Phoenix, you can see the shower with shower curtain through the open door to the bathroom, a kind of foreshadowing of things to come. You could probably write a whole book about this film - and it's just one of many that Hitchcock made.
What a lot of people don't realise is that there's a scene in the movie where we the audience should question our own sanity after Norman Bates' line "We all go a little mad sometimes." During the moment when Norman tries to dispose of Marion's body by sinking the car in the swamp, it stops halfway. Now that's probably a good thing, because it makes it harder for him to hide what his done (or rather what the alter ego of his mother did), but we want the car to sink completely out of sight, in other words: we've gone a little mad.
Hi Whimsory, i enjoyed your reaction to this Alfred Hitchcock classic! And I love your reactions & i'm subscribed. This is one of the GOAT slasher movies! Another Alfred Hitchcock movie that I highly recommended is Rear Window (1954) starring James Stewart & Grace Kelly. + since you like being scared, another horror movie I highly recommend for scares is; An American Werewolf In London (1981) - loads of jump scares, incredible special make up effects and it's quite humorous too. Please check out both for the channel.
Your post-viewing comments are just as fun as your reactions. I also appreciate your not getting ahead of the plot and letting the story unfold at its own pace. Herrmann’s score is iconic and revolutionary not only for the shower scene, but also that it uses only strings.
If you can't read cursive the note Sam Loomis (Marion Crane's boyfriend) was writing in the hardware store, reads (line by line), " Saturday Dearest right-as-always Marion, I'm sitting in this tiny back room which isn't big enough for both of us, and suddenly it looks big enough for both of us. So what if we're poor and cramped and miserable, at least we'll be happy! If you haven't come to your senses and still" That's where it ends, and Marion will never read it because she died the previous Saturday since Arbogast (the private detective) said she hasn't been seen for a week.
I really loved your reaction to this, it's great to see this masterpiece of a film getting the appreciation it's deserves, everything is just right, the story, the music, the casting, the acting, all in the hands of 'The Master of Suspense' as Hitchcock was known. Other films of his which I suggest that you react to are, 'The Birds' a good one for Halloween, 'North by Northwest', 'Vertigo' which is considered by many to be the best film of all time, 'Rear Window', 'Shadow of Doubt', 'Strangers On a Train' and many more, but these are great ones to begin with.
Great reaction Whimsory. They did make 3 more Psycho sequels (all with Anthony Perkins returning as Norman - Psycho II in 1983, Psycho III in 1986 - Perkins even directed that one & Psycho IV: The Beginning in 1990 - which acts as both a sequel and a prequel film of how Norman became who he is - with Henery Thomas, the boy Elliot from ET, playing a young Norman Bates as well) they are all worth checking out in my opinion (and great for around Halloween time too 😉)...
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The sequels do not top the original but they all are entertaining as hell and very high quality.
Classic Hitchcock films always went "Forward Forward then one step to the left" The initial plot was NEVER achieved and it took a turn to throw you off. Class!
Arbogast was like a fly in a spider's web with that epic jumpscare. .... As a viewer ya know the spider is going to rush out for the attack... but it still makes one jump when it does happen. ❤ 😱 🎥 Psycho 2 was very well made as well and worth a watch. "Hitchcock" is also a great film, portraying the challenges Hitchcock endured in the making of "Psycho"
Hitchcock's "Rear Window" has to be an essential watch for you.... us watching you watching them watching people...... why is cinema so popular? For a real "voyeurism" ( the subject of Rear Window ) mind fuck I always recommend double billing as the second feature Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" made the same year as Psycho 1960. Both films are masterpieces. Great reaction full of enthusiasm.
Birds and bird-related things occur multiple times in this film: Norman tells Marion, “You eat like a bird,” in a room full of stuffed birds. When he rushes to Marion’s room, he knocks a small picture of a bird off the wall & has to hang it back up. Marion’s last name is Crane; The film’s action starts in Phoenix - a fabulous bird of legend. Finally, examine the visual image of Lila, just after Sam leaves her at the hardware store: Lila is juxtaposed against the upside-down rakes that the store is selling. The effect is to briefly transform Lila into an image of some human-peacock hybrid, with the rakes standing in for bird plumage. •••• Hitch constantly puts the viewer into ‘opposite-land’ in this film: where we’re constantly framed or invited to root for someone who has done something wrong: We root for Marion, who steals the money (she needs it, but Cassidy, the rightful owner, is sleazy, unsympathetic, creepy, and doesn’t need it. Even more: he states that the money is undeclared/unreported. So Cassidy is framed by the film as a tax cheat. It's as if the film is asking: to what extent is that money even 'rightfully his' (as a lawbreaker) to begin with?); ...The highway patrol officer, who is supposed to be a protector, is seen only behind menacing sunglasses, and poses a threat to Marion; Norman is framed as the underdog in an impossible situation: we want him to get out from under his crazy mom, then we sort of want him to get away with covering up the mom’s act of murder, because he looks after his mom, as the dutiful son. We root for Arbogast, who enters Norman’s home without knocking, without any legal authority to do so, and then we root for Lila, who later does the same thing. Also, our introduction to Marion & Sam is worth noting. We first meet them in a cheap hotel room, just after having secretive afternoon sex-outside-of-marriage. Neither person is married to someone else, but the society of 1960 had a different view of sex, marriage and personal conduct than we do today. 1960s audiences were meant to see Marion as an attractive woman who dresses well and who aspires to a better life, but who has indulged her dark side and who already has questionable judgement: “Nice girls” wouldn’t be meeting a man in cheap hotel rooms to indulge their lust - they’d marry the guy first. Since Marion didn’t, the audience at the time of the film’s release, is meant to see her as somewhat morally compromised, and that she’s hiding it. •••• When Norman hesitates about which room he’ll give Marion the key to, yes that probably does decide Marion’s fate, but I don’t think Norman sees it that way. He sees it as: “Am I going to give myself the opportunity to peek at her undressed body?” It’s a privacy violation, but he doesn’t know he’s later going to murder her (as Mother). When he is revealed to be a Peeping Tom who spies on her through the hole, I think we’re meant to lose respect for Norman (He has a dark side: he’s not above doing this sort of thing), but we’re not meant to (yet) see him as irredeemably evil and to lose every last ounce of sympathy for him. In this regard, it’s interesting to see how times have changed: Today’s audiences don’t view Marion as crossing the line - not even a little bit - for multiple hookups with Sam before they’re married. And, I think today’s audiences react with more shock, and attach more weight to Norman’s violation of Marion’s privacy when he spies on her through the peephole, than I think was the case when the film was released. (I don't know that for sure.) (This is media influenced: today’s audiences are primed by media to think: “privacy violation definitely could indicate potential serial killer” much more than I suspect 1960’s audiences were.)
"The money didn't really matter in the end." Exactly! Alfred Hitchcock called that the "MacGuffin." He put one in each movie. The MacGuffin is what the movie SEEMS to be about, but not what the movie is REALLY about. In "Psycho," the stolen money is the MacGuffin. It seems to be the center of the story at first, but it's just there as a set-up to introduce the Bates Motel.
A very good, insightful detailed review. About the only thing you missed were in the first two scenes. When Sam and Marion were in the hotel bedroom, most of their conversation centered around finances being the main obstacle to their being together and getting married. Then in scene 2, Marion sees an opportunity to eliminate that obstacle by absconding with the 40 thousand. You are right that it was a spur of the moment, out of character decision for her. But what I think you missed (at that point of the movie you questioned why was she doing that and where she was going) was that she was heading for the town where Sam lived to be with him and , in fact, wound up at the Bates Motel which was just outside of Fairvale, California (Sam's hometown). As mentioned, great review. I just wasn't sure you grasped that was what motivated her.
The money is the MacGuffin, the object that the audience thinks everyone cares about, but it’s only there to further the plot and really is useless. Hitchcock was a genius, everyone thinks the movie is about the star stealing $40,000…nope! The shower scene just comes out of nowhere and is STILL shocking. I loved your reaction.
I think Alfred Hitchcock and the cast and crew would all be extremely proud of you. I'm absolutely certain your reactions are everything they wanted from their audience for Psycho and 63-years later it is amazing to see that it still does the job.
Psycho is based on the real Life Serial Killer Ed Gein! I remember reading the book 'Deviant' years ago! I can't recall the author...About Gein! But that is who Robert Block...The writer of Psycho...Based Norman Bates on! Great reaction to a Masterwork...Psycho 2 is a great sequel! Loving all your reactions and your after thoughts and summations!
The reason they look like sisters is because Hitchcock had a type. A lot of his actresses looked very similar. Hitchcock did a few little tricks to help this movie out, including having ambulances available outside the theater (Like The Excorcist did years later), also instructing theater owners not to allow audience members to join the movie late (He said you have to see the first ten minutes of the movie), and also buying up all the copies of the book so the audience would not know the ending.
In a world of average reactors with maybe more subscribers its refreshing that you are doing these reactions Whimsory. Nothing feels like a production or staged thanks for providing this content, I look forward to the notifications for your uploads
Awesome reactions to an awesome movie. The most famous and often parodied Shower scene , was shot on the 17th to the 23rd of December 1959. And producing the most iconic corpse stare in cinema history. 🎥🚿
Bates Motel is a surprisingly good series. It not only explores Norman and his mother's relationship, but also the crazies and corruption in the town they live in. Vera Farmiga steals the show as Norma, Norman mother.
That angle had already been explored in "Psycho IV: The Beginning", starring a riveting Henry Thomas ss young Norman & Olivia Hussey as his narcissistic mother.
44:48 That’s a good observation about the room key choice. You definitely could see he was making a decision. I suppose it could’ve been whether he was going to murder her or not, but I think he was turned on by her and was deciding whether to be a good person or give in to his lust. He could’ve murdered her in either room, but I think his mother side saw what he was doing and she then made the decision to kill. 🔪 🚿
I'm still waiting for someone to react to my favorite movies. No one has. Papillon with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, Sergeant York with Gary Cooper, which are both true stories. Patton with George C Scott and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Ben Stiller.
This film shocked America when it came out. I really want to see you react to 12 Angry Men as well. This is probably my favorite reaction to this yet. I think you going in blind really helped.
We studied this film in school. The objective of Marion is to get the audience to identify with her because she’s the main character. When Bates kills her, he is in fact killing the audience. When the main character dies, we identify with the next lead, which is actually Norman Bates. This is why we are nervous about him getting caught when he is cleaning the crime scene and sinking the car.
The movie shifts the 'protagonist' perspective (i.e. the person whom the audience identifies with) several times. First Marion, then Norman, then (trying to figure out what happened) Arbogast and Lila Crane. With most of these, too, they are doing things that are illegal/sketchy to at least some degree (Marion stealing money, Norman trying to hide 'Mother's' crime, Lila trespassing/snooping around the Bates property), that the audience is nonetheless still secretly hoping that they get away with. Hitchcock suggesting the audience has a 'split personality' by the shifting of protagonists and with it our loyalties.
@@gammaanteria to be honest I can’t remember who they shifted to after Norman and I didn’t want to make something up because my class was like 30 years ago lol, but that sounds about right. I just remember feeling sort of off-balance after Marion was killed. I remember I wanted that car to sink and I didn’t like Arbogast’s questioning, so I knew I was invested in Norman.
I always thought it was wild that she just took this money and expected Sam to abandon everything to runoff with her. Didn't even think to call him and ask if he's be down for it before she did anything crazy. Can you just imagine the person you're seeing shows up at your house, with $400k in cash that they stole, expecting you to just drop everything and go on the run with them?
Marion doesn’t seem the type who usually does rash things. She clearly wasn’t thinking straight when, in confused desperation, she took the money so Sam could pay off his debts and they could be together. Of course, it was never going to work. Sad, how trapped Marion and Sam were by the mores of the time. Not sure how they met, but she could have gotten a similar office job in Fairvale, and married Sam. Then they could have worked on figuring a way out of Sam’s financial hole. Of course, lots of places wouldn’t allow married women to work for them, and her even partially supporting the two of them would have been completely unacceptable. And kids for two parents working outside the home was even more complicated than it is now.
When this movie came out, audiences were shocked that the lead was killed off. In 1962, Janet Leigh was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Fans loved her. To kill her off so quickly was mind-blowing to people.
From what I understand, Hitchcock was discussing this Film during development with his Wife. He told her how he was throwing a twist of killing off the Main Character only half way through the Movie. She replied by suggesting he should kill her off sooner, within the first 20 Minutes 😀
The actress in the beginning was Janet Leigh, a very well known actress at the time so it was a really big stock for audiences to see her killed off right in the beginning.
There's a video on RU-vid that makes comparisons between Normans character and Marion in regards to how they are the different sides of the same coin. It really shows you how deep and layered this movie really was in ways I would have never noticed on my own. But it was an epic film and story even without that extra insight. Your reactions are always so great, especially from your very young & innocent perspective, as I actually saw some of these films when I was rather young as well. And seeing them as an adult can often make them different movies, as you see things through your lens of life that you didn't have the first time.
This is my favorite Hitchcock film and Perkins delivers a masterclass in acting. I can watch him play Norman over and over. Great reaction too, Whimsory!
I like your cat...nothing seems to bother him/her. Alfred Hitchcock said he made scary movies because people scream when they're on a roller coaster but they're smiling when they got off. 1:00 Janet Leigh who played Marion was Jamie Lee Curtis' mom, but you'll see more of her great acting in the movie "The Manchurian Candidate" made 2 years later. John Gavin, who was Sam, became Ambassador to Mexico in 1981. 4:31 Hitchcock started his career directing silent movies where almost all of it was visual except for dialog cards put up on the screen now & then, but he does a great job in this scene of telling us Marion IS gonna steal that money and that she's a real amateur at crime. Of course they're gonna know it was her! 24:00 It's kinda strange that Norman and Sam don't know each other. They must have gone to school together since they're about the same age. And a guy who owns a motel would need to buy a lot of hardware store stuff.
I read a think piece once delving in to the psychology of Psycho why the shower scene is so powerful. The the knife is representational of teeth, being attacked and eaten alive by a large predator it strikes a direct response from our lizard brains. It triggers a fear response that is dominated by instinct or impulse rather than rational thought. Accompanied by the wonderful music which emulates each stab of the knife and Hitchcock lack of gore on screen leaves a lasting impression on the viewer long after the movie has finished. Loving your reactions.
He's outside the real estate office. By the 1950s everybody expected to see Hitchcock in his movies so he got it over with in the first five minutes. Check Francois Truffaut's book-length interview with Hitchcock.
I think Normans mother killed your cat.... I suggest watching Psycho 2, the sequel... like 22 years later.... the actors reprise their roles. I thought it was great.
If you're looking for another great movie with Janet Leigh, the original "The Manchurian Candidate" is a solid choice. And, there aren't a lot of RU-vid react videos for it, so it might be a good one to gain new viewers.
Hiya Whimsory 👋OLD dude here. This movie is even before my time LOL (b.1965). On one level, this is the FIRST MODERN slasher film. No one at first understood it which is why we needed the psychiatrist to do all that exposition. Money, jealousy, revenge they understood, but this? People got sick watching back in the dsy. If you can bear watching, you can see there no actual stabby wounds effects penetrating flesh. It is all camera shots implying stabs. The blood was chocolate syrup which pours slow and thick and matches the tones in black and white.
your commentary while viewing made this reaction so much better. The way you do your reactions are fantastic. Considering this movie is over 60 yrs old, it still freaks people out. More suggestions: " Single white female"......" the Gift ( Cate Blanchett"....."Glass house (Leelee Sobieski)"......" Glass house good mother (Angie Harmon)".....Hand that rocks the cradle"...
Back in the day people were horrified because they swore they saw Janet Leigh (Jamie Lee Curtis's Mom btw) getting stabbed over and over again; however, there is never a single shot of cut skin or knife penetration. Why Hitchcock was The Master!
