Psycho | 1960

Name: Psycho | 1960 | Critics.com
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Released: April, 10. 2021
Rating: 5

Updated April 7, 2021

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A secretary (Janet Leigh) embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a rundown, remote motel. The young, shy proprietor (Anthony Perkins) and his mother seem to be the only other people around until the secretary is stabbed to death by a shadowy figure while taking a shower. Cast: Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [1:49 – R]

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“What makes ‘Psycho’ immortal, when so many films are already half-forgotten as we leave the theater, is that it connects directly with our fears: Our fears that we might impulsively commit a crime, our fears of the police, our fears of becoming the victim of a madman, and of course our fears of disappointing our mothers.”

– Roger Ebert

“This time Hitchcock has put his usual close-up face-nibbling sex scene at the very beginning, (as usual, it is quite dispensable)…The whole thing is, in fact, much too long, and the plot is full of holes.”

– Stanley Kauffmann

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“What makes ‘Psycho’ immortal, when so many films are already half-forgotten as we leave the theater, is that it connects directly with our fears: Our fears that we might impulsively commit a crime, our fears of the police, our fears of becoming the victim of a madman, and of course our fears of disappointing our mothers.”

– Roger Ebert

“This time Hitchcock has put his usual close-up face-nibbling sex scene at the very beginning, (as usual, it is quite dispensable)…The whole thing is, in fact, much too long, and the plot is full of holes.”

– Stanley Kauffmann

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A secretary (Janet Leigh) embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a rundown, remote motel. The young, shy proprietor (Anthony Perkins) and his mother seem to be the only other people around until the secretary is stabbed to death by a shadowy figure while taking a shower. Cast: Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [1:49 – R]

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Psycho | 1960

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