I'd wager there aren't any films that have been more analyzed than Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
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11/09/08
Psycho (1960)
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Reviews Counted: 62
Fresh: 60
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8.7/10
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
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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... [More]
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Reviews for Psycho
Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror.
10/07/08
Top Critic An unusual, good entertainment, indelibly Hitchcock, and on the right kind of boxoffice beam.
10/07/08
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
Top Critic The music, the setting, the shower scene, the mother in the cellar... everything about this iconic film has passed into cinema history.
09/19/07
Top Critic 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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