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PSYCHO (1960) Watch Along (Patreon)

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2024-05-06 16:00:20
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Poll Winner! #14 on the AFI list! What else could you ask for!!! I LOVED IT! This movie is brilllllllant!

I am a bit wild in this one! With a chatty update about what happened to me! I'm doing good now! HAHA!

Thanks so much for voting on the poll! We have to do this genre again! SO MANY movies I must see!!! SO MUCH TO CHAT ABOUT things I had no IDEA about! So I may jump on a live later today! Can't you make it????

Thanks for being here with me and the rest of the crew to watch movies! it makes my LIFE! I love you ALL!

xx

ames!

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"Psycho" (1960) Watch Along

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RFK Fan

Welcome to the wonderful world of Alfred Hitchcock... This movie was in many ways, way ahead of its time and SHOCKED the relatively conservative late 50's America and set the stage for sooo many future filmmakers. Hitchcock considered the grandfather of the Hollywood "Macguffin" and few have done it better since. This screenplay considered a must study guide for every aspiring screenwriter.

Toc

Watching now! (Great week!) (And I think it's great you're taking a couple of weeks off, I always worry about reactors burning themselves out.) See you on the other side! Your first Alfred Hitchcock movie, right? Congratulations!!!! Next stop: "Rear Window"!!!!!! (with James Stewart!) (or "Rope" or "Strangers On A Train" or "Shadow Of A Doubt" or.....🤣 Alfred has A LOT of good ones!)

Toc

Oh my god, your head!!!!! Frickin' hell! I'm the same way, I'm constantly banging my head, a life long thing. Makes us great artists, Ames! 🤣 Hope you're feeling better, buddy!

JM63

Wow, sorry to hear you're having some bad luck healthwise. I agree with TTM, please feel free to reduce your output or take some time off if you feel it's necessary. I know you're tough, but a well-timed day or two off can work wonders. BUT I'm glad you've finally entered the wonderful world of Hitchcock. You might not find your way out for a while...

Jeffrey Schmidbauer

I hope to see more Alfred Hitchcock movies in the coming months; especially his classics from the 1950s.

Toc

- My favorite scene acting-wise is that incredible scene with Martin Balsam (Arbogast) and Anthony Perkins (Norman), and I LOVE that you totally noticed that right away. Martin Balsam is an early Actor's Studio guy, just like Brando, but character actor so he never gets the credit. But such a great naturalistic actor, love him every time I see him in a movie. - Bernard Herrman's first movie score? "Citizen Kane". And his last? "Taxi Driver"! And tons of other films, including lots of Hitchcock. He's my favorite film composer.....and he's most film composers' favorite film composer! - Your post-film commentary was fantastic; you totally got this movie, from beginning to end and it was an honor to watch it with you!!!!! - Yes, this movie was groundbreaking and a huge deal when it came out. There's even a movie called "Hitchcock", with Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock and Scarlett Johansen as Janet Leigh, it's all about the making of the movie. My uncle saw it in a movie theatre ten years later and he said people were still screaming in the theatre. That staircase scene gets EVERY reactor.

Catchermag

I love this film and how it literally feels like a goodbye to noir and hello to horror. The camera angles and lighting and music and crime feel noir adjacent, like Leigh’s character is actually driving away from a noir film and plunges right into a slasher. It’s noirror!! Norman is wearing a dress shirt and coat, but no tie and the clothes don’t fit him, like a bizarro world version of the men she left behind . He IS her unknown future, and ours cinematically. …..anyway, these movies invite theory. There are college courses on Hitchcock for a reason.

Toc

I love how you pointed out how he keeps bringing in new characters. Right until the end of the movie, he's bringing in new characters, giving 'em big monologues, the whole bit! :D Once again: your post-movie analysis was fantastic on this one!!!!

Taz

One of the best films I’ve ever seen ❤️ Psycho and 12 Angry Men made me forget I was watching a black and white movie - if that’s not immersive I don’t know what is !

Catchermag

Also, Janet Leigh is Jamie Lee Curtis’s mother.

Toc

Sorry, can't stop commenting: TOTALLY agree with what you said about it working in black & white in a way that it would not work in color! They actually did a shot-by-shot remake of this in the 90s with Vince Vaughan.....it's horrible! It's in color! Vince Vaughan as Norman Bates, Anne Heche as Marion. All I can say to remaking "Psycho" is......NO! Bad dog! :P

Shawn Goforth

I love that you kept noticing the camera work. Your comment that it was making you feel like someone else was watching everything is spot on. We watch Norman's voyeurism, then the audience turns into the voyeurs behind the camera, as we switch from identifying with Marion as the lead to following Norman (which still strikes me as a bold move, considering what he's just done). He was watching her in a vulnerable position, while most of us were judging his actions. Then, we're immediately watching him in a vulnerable spot, and we don't realize how much we're eating it up and loving every second. I think the taxidermy is meant to serve as a clue. We hear at the end that he preserved the corpse to keep it as well as it would keep.

AJ

Looking forward to watching this later this week. Its been a long time. I remember seeing the house at Universal Studios as a kid in the 80s. FYI to everyone that it's free on Amazon Prime right now (in US).

JM63

Fave shot: Close-up of the house where Norman is zig-zagging up the steps. Fave scene: The conversation between Marion and Norman in the parlor. Hitchcock does so much to spice up the shot-reverse shot sequence: different angles, highlighting various aspects of the background, body positioning of the actors. Rare to see a conversation between a man and a woman with so much non-sexual tension. Out of all his skills, I think Hitch's mastery of shooting dialogue might be his most underrated.

Paddy Thompson

Nerding out to this film is not only warranted, it’s damn well guaranteed! Very good stuff! Do you agree this is a masterclass of building suspense and tension?? Love yah stuff as always

Clay F

I loved your reaction. This is my third time to watch Psycho. It is nice to actually see the shower scene one has heard about or seen a brief image or meme. The house does look like a haunted house. The score is good at building suspense. I liked your insightfull comments (in the outro) abouth the theme of two sides of a coin. As kid in the early 1970's, I watched reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965) and Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-1965). Enjoyed it. Black/white.

John Courtright

This one was WILD, Ames!! It was great to see it again with you! Your reaction was AMAZING! The film pulled you in so completely! Even starting with the score. You were so tense! The angles, the shots, the shadows added so much to the tension!! That house was so spooky! The part with the mirrors was so much fun... I wasn't startled by the film, I jumped when YOU jumped!! I just started laughing afterwards. I wasn't ready for that! 🤣 I loved the cast! Anthony Perkins was amazing! His facial expressions and body language were so perfect for the part! Janet Leigh was great as Marion and Vera Miles was very convincing as her sister! Beautifully directed in black and white with a great score! Loved it! I can't wait to see Vertigo with you for the first time!!

Michael T

What's so great about Alfred Hitchcock is that nearly all his movies succeed on every possible level. First of all, for the average movie viewer, they are very enjoyable. Second, for his studio/investors, they usually made lots of money. Third, for academics and cinephiles, they are incredibly deep sources of ideas, theories, analyses, and multiple interpretations. And finally, for aesthetes, Hitchcock's greatest films, like Psycho, are not just popular entertainment but also unquestionably works of art. Thanks for the reaction, Amy!

William

at the begiining of the movie, 10mins in. The guy in the hat outside of her work place when she walks in is Alfred Hitchcock. He always liked to pop up in his movies

China Andronicus

The novel is honestly fantastic. It manages to hint at Norman's disorder so well without giving it away. I love it. Growing up, we watched loads of Hitchcock before we were old enough to do so. This one was kept from us until we were a bit older (I think I was twelve or thirteen) but our house at the time had the exact same setup as Norman's. You walked in the door and the staircase was right there, with the side hallway leading to the basement, and when you reached the top of the stairs, the hallway was set up the same and led to my parents' bedroom. For several weeks, I was convinced Norman was going to come running out and murder me. For my whole life, this may be the Oscar snub I'm saltiest about, Anthony Perkins not getting nominated for Norman. At the time, genre films didn't get much recognition, but he's so brilliant.

Alan Jones

I don't know if this comment will get much attention a year (almost) after the post, but here goes: Psycho literally changed the way we attend movies. Before Psycho, if you wanted to go to a movie, you coud go in any time while the film was playing, catch on to what's going on by context, then stick around for the next showing to see the beginning, and fill in all the blanks. That's the source of the saying, "This is where I came in," because folks would typically leave when the film got back around the point where they entered the theater. Or, you could pay once, and stay all day, watching the film as many times as you liked off the one ticket. But because Hitchcock didn't want people to come in late to a Janet Leigh film and never see Janet Leigh before "THE END," he required that people must watch it from the beginning. From then on, theaters realized they could benefit monetarily from clearing the theater after each showing and charging again if you wanted to stay over and watch again.