Psycho (Collector's Edition)

Psycho (Collector's Edition)
by Alfred Hitchcock

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Actor: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-05-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of Psycho (Collector's Edition)

Movie Review: "Taxidermy is a Challenging Hobby"
Summary: 5 Stars

How many time have I seen this classic movie? I am thinking 45 would be a low estimate. This low-budget Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece is what I consider his best movie. There are many great scenes in here for a cinematographer/director to study if they had a class in Movie Production 101. They have been copied many times in sincerest flattery, but never duplicated. They are: Janet Leigh's driving along with the embezzled money in the hammering rain. The windshield wipers are keeping time to the eerie background music as we study her facial features. Janet Leigh getting pulled over by the highway patrolman and her nervousness at the stolen money being discovered. We watch as she has to move the bundle of money out of the way to retrieve her driver's licence in her purse for the patrolman. Her arrival at the Bates Motel, and the forboding appearance of the building, the foreshadowing. The stuffed wildlife on display and the mannerisms of Norman Bates, played brilliantly by Anthony Perkins. Perkins' voyerism of Leigh as she is in the motel room. The eye through the peephole shot as a parallelsim to Leigh's later eye shot. The famous shower scene. The ethereal form of the slasher behind the shower curtain. The eerie music, mimicking the slashing movements, Leighs' terror and clawing and grasping at the shower curtain. The "dead-eye" shot of Leigh in the bathtub, the "blood" running to the drain, the drain mimicking the round eye, the symbolism of the life ebbing, going down the drain. Janet Leigh's discovered car being pulled out of the boggy water with a rope. The "fall" of Martin Balsam down the huge staircase in the big house. The pained conversations of Bates with his mother. The scene of the taxidermied mother in the chair in the basement and finally Norman Bates conversations with self as a fly buzzes around him at the police station. We must also mention John Gavin, simply for his ability to project gorgeous male-ness, of the tall, dark and handsome variety. If you need a Halloween Treat and have not seen the movie, this would be "it." Of course if you have, nothing is ever ruined by seeing it again. It never gets old.

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At last--a great American movie available on video for the first time in its original aspect ratio. For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skillfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters--then pulls the rug (or the bathmat) out from under you. Anthony Perkins is unforgettable as Norman Bates, the mama's boy proprietor of the Bates Motel; and so is Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, who makes an impulsive decision and becomes a fugitive from the law, hiding out at Norman's roadside inn for one fateful night. Psycho gets the masterpiece treatment it deserves on DVD, with extras including newsreel footage surrounding the making and release of the movie; an archive of production stills; the special trailer in which Hitchcock (acting as one of the original Universal Studio tour guides) himself leads viewers around the Bates place; credit designer Saul Bass's original "shower scene" story boards; posters and advertising materials for the movie's William Castle-like publicity campaign (No One Will Be Seated After the Feature Begins!); and a 90-minute documentary on the making of the film! What more could any movie fan possibly want? --Jim Emerson

At last--a great American movie available on video for the first time in its original aspect ratio. For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skillfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters--then pulls the rug (or the bathmat) out from under you. Anthony Perkins is unforgettable as Norman Bates, the mama's boy proprietor of the Bates Motel; and so is Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, who makes an impulsive decision and becomes a fugitive from the law, hiding out at Norman's roadside inn for one fateful night. Psycho gets the masterpiece treatment it deserves on DVD, with extras including newsreel footage surrounding the making and release of the movie; an archive of production stills; the special trailer in which Hitchcock (acting as one of the original Universal Studio tour guides) himself leads viewers around the Bates place; credit designer Saul Bass's original "shower scene" story boards; posters and advertising materials for the movie's William Castle-like publicity campaign (No One Will Be Seated After the Feature Begins!); and a 90-minute documentary on the making of the film! What more could any movie fan possibly want? --Jim Emerson

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