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Consumers who purchased the 1998 Collectors' Edition DVD of Psycho will already be familiar with most of the extra content on this Blu-ray, but the sheer quality of the material makes the repeat purchase entirely tolerable. Nearly every aspect of Psycho's production is covered in the supplemental features; the "Making of Psycho" provides an excellent overview through interviews with most of the surviving participants (as of 1998), including Janet Leigh, screenwriter Joseph Stefano (The Outer Limits), editor Paul Hirsch, and Hitchcock's daughter, Patricia, who also appears briefly in the film. Stefano in particular provides exceptional insight into working with Hitchcock and translating Robert Bloch's dark source material into film. Other previously released features include the scholarly commentary track by Hitchcock authority Stephen Rebello; Hitchcock's radio interview with François Truffaut; newsreel footage of the film's release in 1960, with the director's famous admonition that no one be admitted late to a showing; and Saul Bass's storyboards for the shower scene, which is also covered in a three-minute bit that shows the strength of Bernard Herrmann's score in the set piece. The new material is comprised of "In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy," in which a wealth of directors, from Martin Scorsese and William Friedkin to Guillermo del Toro and Eli Roth, discuss the impact of Hitchcock's work on their respective careers. There's also a brief look at how the film's sound was remastered for Dolby 5.1, as well as galleries of poster art and several rerelease trailers and TV spots. --Paul Gaita
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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The "Mother" of all horror films,
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This review is from: Psycho (Widescreen) (DVD)
An undisputed classic, PSYCHO is the mother of all horror films. Released in 1960, the master's most macarbe film was seen by audiences as tasteless and vulgar, now, 42 years later, it's seen as one of the great lessons in suspense. As Hitchcock himself once put it, "The trick is to pull the rug out from people's feet". Indeed, in what other film before or after do we see the supposed leading lady get killed 20 minutes through? Throughout the film, themes of fear, paranoia and horror are all displayed to maximum effect. Benard Herrman's terrific score is perhaps one of the most memorable film scores ever composed. Imitated to death, the notorious "shower scene" with sharp violin strings and high percussion culminates in one of the most amazing sequences ever put onto film. Other nice touches include the introduction of "mother", Arbogast's demise, and a hinting to Hitchcock's next film, THE BIRDS. Forget the sequels and Gus Van Sant's dismal remake. PSYCHO is one of the greats.
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Best Of The Best,
By Bookworm "Jerry" (Marietta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Psycho (Widescreen) (DVD)
Odd as it may seem, but Masterpieces are hard to live up to. Hitch made Psycho in 1960, and never equalled its brilliant dark mood, it's unrelenting suspense, and it's almost unendurable <and yet strangely disappointing> ending. No matter how he tried, Hitch never matched "PSYCHO"'s raw power. Well, he started with the novel by Robert Bloch, a cast including Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins <whose career might has well ended after "I wouldn't even hurt a fly" and who wasn't even PRESENT during the shower shot as he was finishing a play in New York while that sequence was being filmed>, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles, and John Gavin <who actually goes beyond "b" in the emoting alphabet>. And then Alfred Hitchcock takes over, and makes a "slasher" film into an unparalelled work of cinema noir classicism, setting the standard by which all succeeding films will be measured, and typically fall short. I remember seeing this movie in a theatre, and not taking a shower for weeks thereafter. Buy it. Turn out the lights. Don't get up, watch it straight through. If you can breathe when Simon Oakland gives the denoument, you are permitted a medal. But you've been thoroughly scared. . . If not, well. . . you don't know good film-making when you see it. And it "PSYCHO", you're hit over the head with it. It's a masterpiece.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Movie That Cut Movie History In Half,
By Bruce Lee Pullen (Butler, IN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Psycho (Widescreen) (DVD)
Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 gothic horror classic changed the way filmmakers viewed their occupation and enhanced film audiences expectations as far as what the movives could do. Before Psycho, Hollywood was in the dying days of the age of sentiment. Hollywood produced pictures that were sentimenal, emotional, and concerned about showcasing the human condition. Psycho with the savagry of Mother Bates butcher knife hacked through Hollywood sentiment and created the age of sensation. 60's movies such as Bonnie and Clyde, the Birds, Rosemary's Baby, Midnight Cowboy, Butch Cassady and the Sundance Kid, and the Wild Bunch are among many examples of how sixties filmmakers became liberated due to Hichcock's magnificant diffance of convential film guidelines with Psycho. As for the film's structure, musical accompaniment, direction, film editing, and acting performances, the film masterfully excels at all levels and is one of the important films in the last 100 years. The grandaddy of the modern horror movie and the inspiration for modern screen violence, Psycho is still a one of a kind Hitchcock masterwork. The DVD is exemplemary edition to your DVD or video collection.
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