- Year: 1960
- Released: 08 Sep 1960
- Country: United States
- Adwords: Nominated for 4 Oscars. 7 wins & 14 nominations total
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/
- Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Psycho
- Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/psycho
- Available in: 720p, 1080p, 2160p
- Language: English
- MPA Rating: R
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Runtime: 109 min
- Writer: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
- Keywords: black and white, money, hotel, mental illness, missing person,
 | 8.5/10 |
 | 97/100 |
 | 96% – Critics |
 | 95% – Audience |
Psycho Storyline
Phoenix-based Marion Crane, who has for ten years worked as an assistant to real estate agent George Lowery, laments the fact she and her divorced boyfriend, Sam Loomis, can’t get married due to money issues, he a penniless hardware store clerk whose debt is a result of having to pay alimony. Marion senses an opportunity when one of Lowery’s wealthy clients pays his account with forty thousand dollars cash, Marion is tasked with taking the money to the bank. Being a Friday afternoon, Marion believes she can slip out of town immediately undetected with the money to join Sam in Fairvale, California where he lives, before Lowery would even suspect that she has absconded with the money the earliest by Monday. Despite several close calls, Marion is able to make it to fifteen miles short of Fairvale at the Bates Motel, where she stops on the rainy Saturday night. The isolated motel has had little business ever since the state highway was moved. The motel is run by friendly, but lonely Norman Bates, who lives with with his invalid mother in the big, old house on the hill overlooking the motel. Although she doesn’t meet Mrs. Bates, Marion knows that she is an angry, controlling woman based on an argument she overhears between her and Norman. Norman admits that his mother is mentally mad. That evening, Marion has a change of heart and contemplates returning to Phoenix to return the money. But she never makes it either to Phoenix or Fairvale. As such, several people come looking for her, including Sam, who is suspected of being in cahoots with Marion in stealing the money, Marion’s worried sister Lila Crane, who is able to convince Lowery not to press charges if Marion returns the money, and a private investigator named Arbogast who was hired by Lowery. At various times, they all make their way to the mysterious Bates Motel, where Mrs. Bates will do whatever required to maintain control of what happens at the motel and within her family.
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Psycho Movie Reviews
The More I See This, The Better It Gets
When I watched this for the first time in over 30 years, I was surprised how little action there was since I had remembered this as some intense horror movie. Of course, I was young and more impressionable so I guess I just remembered those few dramatic, sensational scenes such as Janet Leigh murdered in the shower and the quick other murder at the top of the stairs. Basically, that was about it, action-wise, BUT I have no complaints because the more I watch this film, the more I like it. It has become my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie, along with Rear Window.
I mention the lack of action, and blood, too, because younger people who might be watching this for the first time are not going to see the kind of horror film they’re accustomed to seeing. A generation back, movie makers tended to build up characters and suspense, so there was a lot more storytelling and less action than you see today. Also, this movie doesn’t have the shock value today for audiences, either, not after years of Freddie Krueger-type blood-and-guts seen in the past 30 years.
But, what you WILL see in this movie is (1) superb acting; (2) a fascinating lead character; (3) excellent photography, and (4) a bizarre story.
“Norman Bates” is one of the most famous fictional names in film history, thanks to this film and the great work portraying him by Anthony Perkins. “Norman” is a nutcase, as it turns out and the more you know all about him, the more fun it is to study Perkins and his character “Norman” in subsequent viewings. He really has the guy down pat. However, it isn’t just Perkins’ film; the supporting is just fine with Leigh, whose figure is still awesome no matter how many times you see it; Martin Balsam as the private detective; Vera Miles and John Gavin. Everyone contributes.
What makes me really enjoy this movie is the cinematography. I bought this on VHS when it became available on widescreen. Later, of course, I got the DVD. Each time, I appreciate John Russell’s camera-work and Hitchcock’s direction more and more. I wonder if this isn’t Hitchcock’s best job of directing as his camera angles and lighting are outstanding. On the DVD, the blacks, whites and grays are just super and the famous house next to the Bates Motel never looked better. That house really looks eerie.
The sound effects in here don’t hurt. When Balsam is attacked, the accompanying frightening music never fails to bring chills down my spine. The music literally “screams” at you.
I went 35 years between showings but now have watched this five times in the past four years. I love it and look forward to seeing it again. Many people here think this is Hitchcock’s greatest film. Add me to that list.
Always holds me from beginning to end…
…from the first time I saw it at age 14 until today whenever I run across it.
This is the rare example of a much-ballyhooed film that is truly deserving of all the hype surrounding it. It would have been nice to have experienced the film without any knowledge of the plot twists. Unfortunately, for most viewers, the big surprises are not possible since so many of the scenes are part of our popular culture.There were, however, so many unexpected surprises.
The opening scene with Janet Leigh and John Gavin in the hotel room was amazing and (pardon the cliché) so real. Hitchcock and Janet Leigh did a brilliant job of pulling us into Marion Crane’s story, that of a woman in love with a divorced man who might as well be married considering his heavy financial obligations that leave him unable to marry in a practical sense even though he can in a legal sense. He doesn’t even have a proper home – just a room in the back of the store he owns.
Marion is then seemingly set up as the center of the movie as she thinks she has found a solution to her problems – a felonious one. Then the focus is skillfully shifted to the Norman Bates character as the “protagonist” victimized by his insane mother (or so it seemed) and then the focus is shifted once again to Marion’s sister’s search.
The movie was adapted from a novel so some of the original audience would have been familiar with the plot of the book. In the novel, Norman Bates was a middle-aged man. I think it was a brilliant stroke to have the Norman of the film as a man in his twenties, a boy who never grew up in a man’s body. Anthony Perkins is so identified today with his role of Norman Bates that it was surprising to see how endearingly he played him in the early scenes. And he did one of the best stammers I’ve ever seen in a movie when he was being questioned by the private detective (Martin Balsam) who is also searching for Marion. I also wasn’t expecting to see how protective the local sheriff and his wife were of Norman when they were being questioned about him and his mother. You could tell they didn’t want somebody (Norman) whom they thought had been dealt a bad hand to have anymore publicity and scrutiny than he already had.
This film is mentioned in the documentary “Moguls and Movie Stars” as an example of how films were becoming more like TV as the 60s began – spartan art design and a script that was bold in the amount of sex and violence it had, even if the vast majority is implied. You have to be impressed by the versatility that is Hitchcock. Making movies in England? No problem. Making movies in the American studio system? No problem. Modernizing to deal with the evaporation of the production code? Again, no problem.
Weird factoid – for you TCM fans out there Robert Osborne is credited as “man” in Psycho, although I don’t remember him ever mentioning it. The only person it could possibly be unless he never comes close to having his face on camera is the parson as the sheriff and his wife are exiting church. See what you think.
