Psycho Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
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- DVD Release Date: 05/27/1998
- Original Release: 1960
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- Sales Rank: 15,230
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Closed Caption; The Making of Psycho, an original documentary featuring new interviews with Hitchcock's daughter, Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell, Janet Leigh, screenwriter Joseph Stefano, and others; Censored scene; Theatrical trailers; Production drawings; The Shower Scene with and without music; Additional newsreel footage; Production photographs
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Side #1 --
1. Main Titles [1:57]
2. The Stolen Hours [4:39]
3. Forty Thousand Dollars [4:06]
4. The Stolen Money [2:54]
5. A Woman on the Run [3:52]
6. The High-Pressure Customer [8:38]
7. The Bates Motel [8:17]
8. Dinner With Norman [3:44]
9. Mother's Problem [8:01]
10. The Shower [2:53]
11. Cleaning Up After Mother [9:09]
12. The Swamp [1:34]
13. Let's Talk About Marion [3:44]
14. The Path to Marion Crane [2:30]
15. The Stammering Suspect [5:53]
16. Back to the Bates Motel [4:06]
17. Death and the Detective [1:07]
18. Looking for Arbogast [2:37]
19. The Dead of Night [3:17]
20. The Late Mrs. Bates [3:17]
21. Mr. and Mrs. Loomis [5:10]
22. Cabin One [3:02]
23. Looking for Mrs. Bates [5:40]
24. Mother [1:04]
25. The Other Half [5:20]
26. I Wouldn't Hurt a Fly... [1:39]
1. Introduction [1:32]
2. The Novel and the True Story [3:19]
3. The Screenwriter of "Psycho" [7:37]
4. A Low-Budget Film [1:38]
5. Casting [10:35]
6. Production Begins [2:57]
7. Hitchcock's Cameo [2:32]
8. Production Stories [5:17]
9. Working With Tony Perkins [2:52]
10. Hitchcockian Themes [3:20]
11. Breaking Taboos [3:09]
12. The Shower Scene [13:43]
13. After the Murder [1:35]
14. The Murder of Arbogast [3:32]
15. Working With Hitchcock [3:11]
16. Meeting Mother [4:03]
17. Psychoanalysis [3:02]
18. The Score [4:51]
19. Finishing the Film [:47]
20. Censorship [1:51]
21. Before the Release [1:58]
22. Don't Miss the Beginning... [2:35]
23. Making the Trailer [2:06]
24. The Reviews [1:22]
25. It's All for the Audience [2:48]
26. End Credits [1:49]
Editorial Reviews
Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece, not only encouraged thousands to shun showers in favor of baths, it completely changed the face of horror and suspense films to come. From naughty Janet Leigh's heist of $10,000 in the opening scenes to her risqué display of personal hygiene at the Bates Motel, Hitchcock's classic simultaneously pushed Hollywood's buttons and created some of the most memorable and horrific images in cinematic history. Inspired by the psychology and handiwork of real-life psychopath Edward Gein (also the inspiration behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), the story introduces Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a reclusive motel manager and amateur taxidermist who has a strange relationship with his mother. Although certain scenes -- particularly Bates's psychiatric evaluation -- come off as stilted and dated today, both Perkins and Leigh deliver eternally creepy performances, and Bernard Hermann's soundtrack is arguably the most chilling ever recorded. The stabbing violins complement the film's atmosphere the way that a good Merlot complements a bloody filet mignon. Hitchcock's notorious attention to detail emerges in endless bird references, from the opening camera work reminiscent of a feathered friend's flight, to the Phoenix locale, to Bates's taxidermy and middle name, "Francis," the patron saint of birds. Hitchcock felt that Psycho was too gory to be shot in color, and he probably never imagined that anyone would try. Still, director Gus Van Sant remade the classic in 1998, in color, but otherwise matching Hitch shot-by-shot. Like Norman's birds, it didn't quite fly. Simon Goetz, Barnes & Noble
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