PSYCHO REVIEW

Alfred Hitchcock creates another masterpiece of horror with his 1960 movie Psycho. Which has become a classic in American Cinema and a cult classic for those who are mentally disturbed, like myself. The twist and turns do manipulate the mind into believing one thing, then WHAM! something else comes up and one changes the perspective of the movie. The neat thing is is that the movie is based off a book which in turn is based on true events that happened in Plainview, Wisconsin. The book is based on the murderous escapades of Ed Gein, a very disturbed man, who killed most of his women neighbors,skinned them, and wore their skins. Truly a disturbed man. But Alfred doesn't really dabble into the blood and gore of the events of the book, he manipulates it to hide the true killer in a very sophisticated way. A quote that he used was "Evil should look and act mundane" and that is beautifully portaried in the character of Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) , a lonely motel manager with a sick mother.

The first victim of "psycho" is Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), who is running away from her job where she stole $40,000 and wants to go and give it to her lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin), the first plot. She stops in at the Bates Hotel, where her and Norman have a great conversation on how we are have problems and are stuck in our own personal traps and can't escape them. Marion soon realize that she will always be stuck in her trap that we created for herself and decides to return home and return the money. But that night while taking a shower to cleanse herself from the guilt but is stabbed to death by an unknown killer. The rest of the movie focuses on the finding this killer and the following the twist and curveballs that Hitchcock throws the audience's way.

I would give it a 9/10 on my scale of movie ratings. It has the best of Alfred Hitchcock taste, the twists and turns, suspense and the cinematography is absolutely stunning, it's as if one was there and living the nightmare, and the music is simply unforgettable. So the next time one takes a shower, just don't listen to High-pitched, short, suspense music and lock your door, cause one doesn't know when Psycho will come.