PSYCHO (1960) PATREON EXCLUSIVE REACTION
Added 2025-11-09 23:00:07 +0000 UTCI had to switch this release with the shining!! You'll still get the shining this upcoming week :)
I am charmed and terrified of Norman Bates
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I love Bates Motel, but it is very different than Psycho. The final season hits some of the same story beats, then veers off in a direction I wasn't quite expecting (I'd seen Psycho years before Bates Motel). I'm so glad that you watched this movie! It's one of my favorites! I hope that you at least watch the first sequel, if not all three of them!
Tony Young
2025-11-13 20:10:21 +0000 UTCIf you watch any more 60s movies, a good way to convert money in your head is just to add a zero. Dirk, above, gave the exact amount, but if you're watching something and you don't want to stop to look anything up. Like, "Your car plus $700" would be about $7,000 today, and the Bates Motel charged $10 would be about $100 today. It's not exact, but it's close enough to get an idea while you're watching a movie ... of course, it only works for U.S. money.
Dean J
2025-11-12 22:44:51 +0000 UTCthat is my favorite orson welles film, and high in the running for my favorite film of all time. that anthony perkins performance is lights-out amazing
diego martinez
2025-11-12 02:57:38 +0000 UTCRobert Mitchum is terrifying in that film - he gave me nightmares as a child.
BullydogBear
2025-11-10 16:37:37 +0000 UTCI first saw this movie when I was quite young and impressionable and it scared the bejesus out of me, especially the ending. I became a forever fan of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense. Fortunately he has a large catalog to discover and enjoy.
quenginerd
2025-11-10 16:20:53 +0000 UTC"She's wrapped in plastic"
Ben Abel
2025-11-10 12:00:01 +0000 UTCAnthony Perkins is also unforgettably great in Orson Welles' "The Trial" from 1962. Both Hitchcock and Welles though did kinda "typecast" him, in as far as him being a well-known closeted gay actor (who was undergoing "conversion therapy" at the time), who performed their "lovable motherloving psycho" as per 60s psychoanalysis.
Kimmie Koneko
2025-11-10 10:22:34 +0000 UTCI definitely know the feeling you’re talking about where an old movie surprises you with how modern it is but Psycho is an all time great. Another black and white horror suggestion is The Night of The Hunter.
Jacob King
2025-11-10 10:06:09 +0000 UTC2012’s “Hitchcock” staring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren is a pretty good retelling of how Hitch basically risked everything to make Psycho. A lot of firsts in this movie - but the biggest one was killing off of who the star/presumed protagonist 1/3 of the way in - nothing like that had ever been done before.
BullydogBear
2025-11-10 05:25:25 +0000 UTCWasnt it also the first movie to show a flushing toilet?
Gary Poussard
2025-11-10 04:16:51 +0000 UTC2:43PM… 10 minutes before Mr C gonna hold in all his garmonbozia and wreck his Town Car. Lol. You should do Vertigo as well when you’re on Hitchcock!
Red Maru
2025-11-10 03:09:34 +0000 UTCWhen I was about 15, my dad rented this for my brother and I to watch. Afterwards we were like "That wasn't scary." And then I went and took a shower and got so much soap in my eyes from suddenly checking for silhouettes on the shower curtain. I still do that.
NatalieShark
2025-11-10 00:59:16 +0000 UTCholy crap!
somewhere in October
2025-11-10 00:32:48 +0000 UTCJust to give you an idea how much she stole. $40,000 in 1960 has the same purchasing power as about $437,805–$438,919 in 2025 or $615,000 Canadian dollars.😱
Dirk Diggler
2025-11-10 00:31:36 +0000 UTCHitchcock changed movies forever. Before Psycho, Gothic horror stories dominated cinema (Frankenstein, Dracula, Edgar Allen Poe, etc). Hitch even acknowledged what he was doing symbolically: he put the Victorian era house up the hill and brought the horror story down the path to a modern day motel. And Psycho II is a surprisingly very good sequel you will definitely enjoy.
Ronnie
2025-11-09 23:27:29 +0000 UTCThe young lady in the office is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter. Also listen to the opening music to the Re-Animator, they obviously borrowed it from Psycho.
Dirk Diggler
2025-11-09 23:26:17 +0000 UTCPsycho 2 is a very good sequel. Worth watching it.
Daniel Hohm
2025-11-09 23:02:17 +0000 UTC
