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Psycho (1960) * FULL LENGTH REACTION (Patreon)

Published:
2025-07-23 15:00:18
Edited:
2025-08-01 12:16:54
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2026-06
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The winner of our 1960s decade poll!

Another Hitchcock movie coming right up!

Get ready for suspense dialed up to 11! Also, it turns out I have heard of the Bates Motel and Norman Bates before, but had no idea it was from Psycho. Just things you hear in passing at some point and eventually learn where they're from 😅

I'm such a fan of Hitchcock, his films are just so interesting and well done! And also, the casting is fantastic. I can't really picture Jimmy Stewart as Norman Bates.

I love every part of this film, from beginning and focusing on Marion, and her decisions, then shifting to other characters later on, and the reveal and ending!!

For this style of reaction, you need your own copy to watch the movie.  You can set picture in picture by right clicking twice on the video and selecting "Picture in picture". The right clicking twice is a bit tricky, because you have to right click, then move your cursor so it's not on the menu, then right click again

- Vero 🥰

Thank you so much for being here and watching along with me!!

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FULL LENGTH REACTION | Psycho (1960) [2025]

Reminder that you need your own copy of the movie to watch along with me since this is solely my reaction. The video is there so you can have an idea when the scene changes in case you need to sync up, but it is HEAVILY blurred so I don't have any copyright issues. Enjoy!!

Comments

AuntVes

I hope you'll watch PSYCHO II (1983), as well, Vero. It's good and expands on some characterizations in interesting ways. 🚿 I also hope you'll see Anthony Perkins in MAHOGANY (1975) someday.

Danny Steele

I should mention that you can still see the Bates Motel and house on the Studio Tour at the Universal Studios Hollywood. Psycho was the antithesis of the big budget movies , because he used lesser known talent with more experimental storytelling and for a cheaper budget. You mentioned the cars, most cars at this time had bench seats which meant you could get in and out either side. These seats fell out of favor due to safety concerns and bucket seats( which is what we have now) have better turning. When Psycho was released in theaters you could NOT enter after the movie started because the theater doors were locked( or that what was advertised). Alfred Hitchcock had a macabre and very dry sense of humor. He put the prop of Mother in Vera Miles’ dressing room as a practical joke. Speaking of Vera Miles, this movie caused her to not take showers after doing the movie, because after seeing it caused her realized how vulnerable you are in the shower and it deeply disturbed her. She took only baths for the rest of her life. It was shot in black and white because it was both cheaper and to lessen the gore. The blood in the famous shower scene is just chocolate syrup because Hitchcock didn’t like the look of fake blood that was used at the time. Alfred worked with his future wife Alma Reville in the film industry where she an editor and he was an art director. She helped him create his style and often helped him create scripts and editing movies. No one has mentioned his more “comedic” films; “Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which is a screwball comedy, and “The Trouble with Harry”, which is a dark comedy.

Tim Heron

During that period in the '60s, it was almost unprecedented for a director to kill his leading lady halfway into the movie. He may not have gotten all of them, but to keep such a big twist a secret, Hitchcock bought up as many copies of the Robert Bloch novel that he could. If you didn't spot him, Hitchcock makes a cameo as a passenger who misses his bus. And I believe this was also the first film to show a flushing toilet. An interesting visual representation of duality is that the first time we see Marion, before she's stolen the $40,000, she's wearing a white bra; after she takes the money, she's wearing a black bra. Janet Leigh is the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis, a scream queen in her own right, who made her film debut in another quintessential slasher movie, "Halloween." And once you get some more films under your belt, if you want to get back into Mel Brooks, "High Anxiety" is a hysterical pastiche of Hitchcock's style.

Cliff Adams

*** SPOILER ALERT *** Warning, do not read this until after you watch Psycho in its entirety. In 1960, Janet Leigh was among the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood. She could bankroll any film she was in. She was the star. The advertising for Psycho included that no one would be admitted into the theater after five minutes from when the movie begins, and to never reveal the ending to anyone. When people did tell about the shower scene, they rarely mention how early in the film it occurs. This will be important later. You read and wrote down the location, date and time at the beginning of the film. Camera moves into a hotel room through the window (peeping tom, everyone?) and there's the busty Janet Leigh in bra and slip on the bed while the guy is buttoning his shirt. Obvious long lunch nooner. They're not married. She wants to be married or break it off; he wants to pay off his debts first (motive for Marion Crane to steal the $40Gs). We dislike Marion... slut, thief, runaway. But... when the Highway Patrolman sticks his face so close to the driver side window, wearing those cop/aviator sunglasses, we respond in terror at him and our sympathies shift to Marion. We suddenly want her to escape and help Sam pay his debts. We worry that the cop sees her new used car. (Aside -- all the stuffed birds are birds of prey, all the pictures are birds who would be the victims of said stuffed birds... Marion's last name is Crane, a bird considered to be a symbol of peace.) Marion shows remorse, figures out how much she needs to fully pay back the entire amount she stole. We see Marion as redeemed. At 50 minutes into an hour and 45 minute movie, Marion is dead. We no longer have a protagonist. More than half the movie to go and the audience is searching for a sympathetic character (no 60+ years to hear about Bates Motel or Norman Bates) as our protagonist. We settle on Norman, who appears to be covering for his psychopathic mother. The reveal that Norman's mother has been dead for a decade hits hard. Hitchcock was not playing with the characters from Robert Bloch's novel, he was playing the audience.

Jimmie V

If you loved this film, I'd highly recommend checking out Brian DePalma films from the '70s... Carrie and Sisters are the two I'd go with first/most. Polanski also had Repulsion and The Tenant which are crazy Hitchcock pastiches as well and feel very similar. Also, there's a certain story/structure device often attributed to Hitchcock in this film (can't say what 'cause that's a spoiler), but Michelangelo Antonioni beat him to that with "L'avventura" that same year (which is a MASTERPIECE of a film if you've never heard of it and called the first literary film ever made, though it's an art-house drama rather than a suspense/horror).

Mannygogou

I eat a sandwich with a fork... lol, and scissors... and salad dressing... haha (first chop it up in a bowl using the food scissors... then pour dressing type stuff... and now you have to eat it with a fork! since it's all messy)

Urfhil

Finally got around to watching this reaction, got to pull out my new 4k disc copy. Love this movie, the expressions, the music, lots and lots of shots featuring mirrors, and obviously the twist. Not sure if someone else mentioned it, but this changed how people saw movies in theaters. People used to routinely go into and leave theaters while the show was on, but this started people not being let in after the movie starts, in an interest to lessen spoilers.

Verowak
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I love that older movies can be made into 4k!! Technology truly is a wonderful thing 🤩 I've gone back to see Norman's conversation where he slowly shows cracks in his armour. It boggles my mind that people would walk in partway through a movie. It's such a weird concept for me, I'm so glad Hitchcock changed things up for the viewing of Psycho!!