Psycho

Psycho, a 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based off a novel by the same name, is considered to be the greatest horror ever made for its heavy suspense, symbolic memorable scenes, and great acting.

The suspense starts when main character, Marion Crane, steals $40,000 from her work. She attempts to take the money to her boyfriend in the hope that he will leave is wife for her with the newly acquired money. On the long journey she stops at a hotel where she meets the owner Norman Bates. Norman is friendly at first but sends off a bad vive when he talks about his taxidermy bird collection which is creepy considering Marion’s last name is Crane. Whenever Norman discuses his mother he also sends of a strange vive. “A boys best friend is his mother,” Norman bates says to Miss. Crane. The most famous and talk about scene in the movie is the shower sequence, where Marion is brutally murdered in the shower. This is cleaver writing in a horror film because you believe she is the only main character and yet she is killed halfway in the movie. The music is a large part of Psycho rapidly screeching with each stab of the knife that Marion was killed with. Also sense the film as no color, which was a choice the director did because he was afraid it would be too gory, all parts that present blood is in fact chocolate syrup. When Marion is dead the camera fallows her eye sight to the stolen money on the dresser. Later in the movie Marion’s sister Lila and her boyfriend Sam investigate the motel to find Marion who has been missing for a few days. They both suspect Norman as being a murder but they don’t know for sure. So Sam distracts Norman as Lila looks in his home and finds Normans mother. So smart and scary special effects take place her making you thing that the mother is turning the chair around to look at Lila but she is in fact dead and decaying. Lila throws her arms up with the shocking surprise. Her arm hits the one and only lit bulb casing it to swing wildly around the room. This makes everything disorienting and dramatic. Just then loud foot steps come running down the stairs giving audiences fear of what is approaching. Norman steps into the light with a knife and wearing a dress like his mother. This is a big plot twist because the characters believe Norman is the killer and the audience is made to believe it is Norman’s mother. The end of the movie as Norman locked in a cell taking to himself, but in his mother’s voice. It is clear he is a true psycho.

I mostly chose to discuss all scenes because I cannot pick just one. But my favorite and most details sequence is The Revealing of Normans mother. I think the scene is shot beautifully at just the right speed making it scary and differently the best written scene in its writing department with an amazing plot twist. I would highly recommended with movie to anyone that as every enjoyed horror as an art from.