Psycho (1960) Movie Reaction [ First Time Watching ] 

That scared the crap out of me too when I first watched this! Definitely did not expect it. 😅😆

Best scare scene in movie history, all about building suspense.

I saw this in the theater when I was 17 years old. The stabbing at the top of the stairs was scarier because everyone screamed.

I think it's similar to the great hospital kill scene in The Exorcist 3 I think it is. That one is great too

Not to mention a skull appears on his face!

@@ToniMcGinty very sublime but creepy as hell.

@@robincraft4682 I'm guessing you meant subtle?

@@ToniMcGinty yes I did... good catch!

@@robincraft4682 It happens to the best of us!

Poor girl, imagine your own dad casting you as the unattractive Wallflower.💀

Yes.She was also in Hitchcocks "Strangers on a Train"

Even though Patricia was married and had kids, she always kept her famous dad's last name.

​@@NovemberReigneI wonder why....

The movie was Les Diaboliques.

And black pocketbook! 🙂

I know I didn't expect the Janet Leigh to die so early. Or at all. I saw this film in 1962. Talk about getting freaked out.

You can thank the genius of Hitch's wife Alma Reville for that. He was concerned about killing Marion off in the middle of the film because of the audience reaction to the star going so soon. Alma told him to double down: "Don't wait until half way through, kill her after 30 minutes." In the 2012 biopic 'Hitchcock', Scarlet Johansson playing Janet Leigh appears on screen for the first time on EXACTLY 30 minutes. Also Alma was the only one to spot that Leigh swallowed during one of her 'dead' scenes. A single frame of film needed to be cut to maintain the illusion and she was the only one to see it. She was more than Hitchcock's wife, she was a cinema force to be reckoned with in her own right.

@@dabe1971 She was indeed, a true force to be reckoned.... except in the beauty department. Her crone-like, haggish visage was instrumental in Hitch's obsession with some of his leading ladies.

Hitchcock wife suggested Marion to be killed off early.

Vera Miles gets no respect at all. I think she does a great job and has the perfect moment at the end when she accidentally hits the overhead light.

That's a shame but he was obviously brilliant in this film.

@@robincraft4682 Perkins was also gay and he didn't hide it as well as a number of other Hollywood heartthrobs did at the time, which was a big issue for homophobic Hollywood at the time. But I went ahead and looked up his bio after reading your remark and was surprised to find he played in a lot of films, but was a leading man mostly when he was some type of psychotic villain.

He was generally typecast as nervous and twitchy, which was easy to do, in movies like “The Trial”, “Fear Strikes Out” and “Murder in the Orient Express, even if he wasn’t playing he villain.

@@johnnehrich9601 His widow Berry Berenson, who he married in 1973, was on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center. She knew he was gay, but they stayed married until he died in 1992.

Not at all, Perkins had quite a carreer before and after Psycho, before he was casted as a young hero and romantic lead even recording love songs, after Psycho he had big parts all over the world, right after Psycho he co-starred with Ingrid Bergman and shot the Kafka movie with Orson Welles, Romy Schneider and Jeanne Moreau, he did a wonderful crazy comedy in London with Brigitte Bardot and many other movies and he worked till old age still getting starring roles. Janet Leigh was a huge star, much bigger than her daughters; before and after Psycho she did filma noir, including Touch fo Evil, adventure movies and lots of musicals and that special Columbo episode, and Vera Miles had been a star in her own right long before Hitchcock, starring in big movies of John Ford and co-starring with James Stewart and John Wayne. But Psycho is such an outstanding movie, it makes everything else disappear. After Psycho Hitchcock told Janet Leigh, whom he adored . and they became life-long friends -, that they never can make another movie togehter, this would ruin that extraordinarey special aura around Psycho.

As I wasn't allowed near a horror movie as a kid, I got to experience the movie that way as well the first time I saw it.

I second that! 'Psycho II' is genius.

Then nightmare on elm Street and scream took that twist

I know, it's unbelievable!! Janet Leigh was gorgeous while poor Jamie is very plain..... obviously took more after her dad, Tony Curtis.

Definitely!

Exactly what I commented to say! 'Psycho II' should be watched by all who react to 'Psycho' as it is brilliant and gives so much more depth to Norman Bates.

@@rnw2739 I never saw it but I'll watch it soon. Quinten Tarantino didn't like the first Psycho that much (wtf? It's incredible) but loved the sequel.... I don't agree with his first statement but now I feel like I need to check it out Psycho II.

Pyscho 2 is pretty good ! but the only thing that feels wrong is the real mother .. scenario the writers put in . Hitchcock probably wouldn't have gone with that . But it was still a good sequel . Imo probably the best sequel was Psycho 4 which is more of a prequel .

@@pigpiggypigbigpig681 You'll love it!

Psycho 2 actually has a good storyline but what I hate is the senseless nudity. Not needed at all but yet is always there to degrade women. Hollywood's trademark.

Don't forget Marion Cobretti.

@@carm3d Had to look that one up. Good reference. 👍

And then he changed it to John 😂

​@@carm3d LETS BLEED PIG!

@@robogreek3157 He was Marion his whole life before becoming a movie actor: "He was born Marion Robert Morrison and didn’t change his stage name to 'John Wayne' until director Raoul Walsh and studio head Winfield Sheehans decided his given name was 'too Italian' and didn’t fit what they had in mind for leading movie stars." - _Collider_

This movie is 1960 and you act like that was just yesterday

lol Game Over. They fell right into Hitchcock's trap

Good call. Yes he did sneak himself into all his movies.

None of the sequels or the remake are any good. They all stink. Incomparable to the original.

I completely agree 👍

I'm not sure Id say that about all three, but absolutely, Psycho 2 is a fantastic sequel, which pays massive respect to hitchcock style, while simultaneously being its own movie, without just repeating what you expect.

@@rrmenton8016 Psycho III was directed by Anthony Perkins and Psycho IV was a made for TV prequel which I enjoyed much more than the actual critics did. I didn't care much for the Psycho remake of the 1990's.

Hichcock had a giant, 6 foot diameter, shower head made, that only had water spraying out around it's rim, so the camera would remain dry, while filming.

Don't forget Tony Curtis in "The Boston Strangler."

I thought the movie was wasted on them.

@@mikelarsen5836 You don't like this couple, do you?

Old is gold.

not exactly, as far as I know M, Düsseldorf Vampire from 1931 was the first film that portrait a psychopath murderer... Psycho is considered the first 'slasher' but that's quite an ambiguous label...

​@@JulioLeonFandinho Leave off, love. Like anyone has even heard of, let alone seen, 'M'.

Freddie Hightower was also born in the year that Anthony Perkins died:1992

Male here, did the same because of this movie and I hadn't even seen it.