Review of Psycho (1960) by Nehemiah — 06 Sep 2019

One of the first noted thrillers in American cinema history, this movie sent chills up the spines of theater goers of the time leaving them outraged as they left the film. Hitchcock's movie centers around a young man who runs a hotel and a woman who falls upon his company in hopes of finding a safe-haven for the time being.

While the movie wasn't overtly violent, it pioneered cinema by focusing on the psychological complex of a deranged individual who in this case had his psyche broken with the loss of his mother. The most notorious scene, the shower scene, reminds me of when I was in a haunted house with my sister and lost it when a guy opened a curtain holding a fake knife.

It was the only time I didn't tell her to calm down and got defensive instead. But it was that slow, impending danger of the curtain opening like that in the movie. Except in the film you were in the eyes of the killer which upset early audiences.