Psycho: Alfred Hitchcock's landmark masterpiece of the macabre, stars Anthony Perkins as ... more
the troubled Norman Bates, whose old dark house and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening.Psycho II:22 Years later, Norman Bates is released f...
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: K.C. Bascombe - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jesse James, Rachel Skarsten, Charles Powell, Linda Purl, Kevin Zegars
Advantages: First of its kind. Great mystery Disadvantages: Black and white
CAST
Anthony Perkins...............Norman Bates
Janet Leigh........................Marion Crane
Vera Miles.........................Lila Crane
John Gavin..........................Sam Loomis
Runtime................................109 minutes
Country...................................USA
Language........... ...................English
Color......................................Blac k and White
Certificate...............................UK 15
Company...............................Shamley Productions
Produced by
Alfred Hitchcock
Music by
Bernard Herrmann
Special Effects by
Clarence Champagne
Writer
Robert Bloch (novel)
The original film of Psycho was hugely popular. It made a lot of money at the box office and established Hitchcock's reputation as a director and particularly as a master of suspense. It ...
Advantages: a great hitchcock movie from the 60's Disadvantages: none really
a classic, especially the then horrific shower scene, with it's purposely dodgy camera work and rather screechy music as the red liquid trickles its way down the plug hole and the shower curtain pops away from the rail, (although this sort of violence would be seen as tame in the 21st century, with not enough blood and slicing of flesh for todays gore seeking audience it was only just passable to be aired in the 1960).
Hitchcock has created a classic masterpiece which will be remembered for a long time, (there were 3 more psycho movies with Perkins as Norman and even a remake of the original in 1998 with Vince Vaughn as Norman) and, as in most of his movie, he makes a brief appearance near the beginning of this one too? watch out for a bloke in a wacky cowboy hat, (but blink and you'll miss him..).
The acting is good enough to keep ...
Advantages: in depth and well thought out investigation Disadvantages: Poor insight into women
that happen to Christie. For example getting attacked late at night, by his car getting vandalised and not forgetting the text messages. All this added an extra and unknown dimension to the story as you never knew till the end who was doing this, the Psycho, the Jilted lover, her ex or even his own boss, the list just goes on.
Also simmering away in the background of the story was this problematical relationship between Christie and his boss Dave Anger (Great name for a boss!!). With Christie knowing he is after his blood and also knowing that any mistake he makes would have him demoted and replayed but he didn?t know why he hated him with a passion as he couldn?t remember every wronging the guy.
What did surprise me slightly was I did not think the author treated the very serious issue of Child Abuse as appropriately as he should of ...
This chilling collection includes Alfred Hitchcock's legendary PSYCHO as well as the frightening sequels PSYCHO 1 and PSYCHO 2.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS
Release date
02/10/2006
No of Discs
3
Catalogue No
8243319
Barcode
5050582433197
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
This chilling collection includes Alfred Hitchcock's legendary PSYCHO as well as the frightening sequels PSYCHO 1 and PSYCHO 2. PSYCHO - Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO is a tense thriller about a young woman, who, while on the run after stealing 40,000 dollars from her boss, is brutally murdered in the shower of a motel that she is staying in. As police investigate her disappearance, we learn more about the motel's psychotic owner, Norman Bates and his domineering mother. PSYCH0 2 - Norman Bates is coming home after spending 22 years in a mental institution. He plans to renovate the old Bates Motel, the place where his first murders occurred. PSYCHO 3 - Picking up where PSYCHO 2 left off, the Bates motel is again the site of some nasty doings as the rehabilitated Norman, who has installed a new ice machine, attempts to put his life back together. Unfortunately for his guests, old habits die hard.
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