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Thrills and shrills in this drama thiller, 28 Jun 2007

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Not Hitchcock's best film, but possibly the one which gets everybody talking, including me. Many of my dinner parties have gone by where the conversation turns to Hitchcock and 'Psycho'; it seems it is a film which people cannot stop talking about.
The premise of the movie is simple, a disturbed man runs a motel and bumps off guests, inbetween dressing up as his mother and sitting in the upstairs window.
Anthony Hopkins was perhaps not the best choice to play the lead, he is nervy and unconfident in front of the camera and looks like he wants to dart off like a startled fawn. It is a shame Hitchcock did not use one one of his regular players like Cary Grant or little Jimmy Stewart, who would have brought stability and star presence.
Psycho is renowned for it's notorious shower scene in which nubile Janet Leigh is savaged to death with a kitchen knife. The scene is by today's standards extremely tame and one would see a lot worse violence in the likes of Harry Potter. The mise en scene in this sequence is superb and the rhythmic timing of the knife set against the piercing music score is joyous to watch. It is the kind of moment you want to re-wind again and again and each time you find something else embedded in the scene to make you enjoy it even more.
The direction of the film is a little heavy handed and the dialogue is amateurish, but one can gloss over this as the film as a whole is engaging.
Hitchcock fans will be pleased to spot the master's traditional cameo. It has been suggested Hitchcock also appears briefly in the shower scene, he can be seen standing slightly behind the assassin if one pauses the film in the correct place.
Psycho was followed by four poorer sequels and a television series, but for true fans there is only one film.

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