*WE ARE CHANGED FOREVER* Psycho (1960) Reaction: FIRST TIME WATCHING
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2 unmarried adults in a hotel room was pretty racy for the times. Such behavior would have been scandalous back then. Things were so conservative that Psycho is the first movie to show a toilet flushing.
Pretty sure it was the first film to even show a visible toilet.
@ w. five stars
@@georgejrivera3388 Nope. The first toilet to be shown in a mainstream Hollywood film was in the 1927 silent movie "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans". The film, directed by F.W. Murnau, featured a brief scene in which a woman enters a bathroom and sits on a toilet, although the actual act of using the toilet is not shown.
@@zedwpd thank you for that. I was always under the impression psycho was the first film. The more you know! Cheers man, thank you for that fact.
Definitely a change/ a more innocent time!
Marion was played by Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis' mom. She was famous, at the time, and totally unexpected that you'd kill off your most important character halfway through the movie.
Kind of equivalent to Drew Barrymore in Scream.
Edit: I couldn’t think of something more modern than that.
@@Kylesb scream can't even come close to this movie.
@@KylesbAngie Dickinson in "Dressed to Kill" 🤔
@@goodowner5000which was an homage to Psycho. It was directed by Brian DePalma, who also directed Body Double, which was an homage to Hitchcock’s Vertigo
I cannot believe that is Jamie Lee Curtis' mom! To think that her mom was also such a horror icon, wow does that talent run in the family!
Fun fact: Vera Miles, who plays Marion's sister Lila, is still alive! She turned 94 last August!
Part way through the movie Janet Leigh removes her blouse to reveal a black bra. It was white earlier. This isn't a continuity error. It's to show she's become a criminal.
Yes, it's the underwire of evil!
and showing her bra at all was scandelous.also this movie has the first flushing toilet on film.
The cleavage of corruption!
I didn't know that - what a great detail!
You mean like the old Westerns where the good guys wore white hats; the bad guys, black hats?
Or, maybe she likes a white bra by day and a black bra for evening. Or, of course, sometimes a bra is just a bra.
I inferred from the psychologist explanation, that Norman carried on conversations with his mother so, he would be imitating her voice. Also, I don’t think Marion was just breaking bad, but rather seeing the money as a way for her and Sam to get married. Sam was conflicted because he was broke and felt he needed to level up before he could properly ask someone to marry him. After she calmed down, Marion realized her impulsive act could never work. Besides, Sam would have never gone along with it. Try “Rear Window”-1954
Yes, back then, men were expected to be the sole breadwinner and wives often did not work outside the home. So that may be partly why Sam thought he should be earning more money if he was going to marry her.
This movie was a big deal when it came out. Janet Leigh was a big star during this time. It was unheard of to kill off such a big star so early in a movie. Hitchcock knocked it out of the park with this masterpiece!
''now that's what i call a knife'!!!
Hitchcock understood this and had theaters refuse to admit anyone after about fifteen minutes into the film. People had to get to know Marion. Had to see her crime and her anxiety about being caught. They had to be convinced she was what the story was about.
@@Bluesit32 psycho has to be watched in black & white on a big screen in a cinema!
no adverts, no intermission!!
If you want to see the genius of Hitchcock, watch "Rope". It takes place in one room. "Rear Window" also takes place mostly in 1 room and what you can see from that window.
Also, "The Birds", which was the next Hitchcock film after Psycho. It has no musical score, relying on sound effects only.
If you watch any of his films, you'll end up playing "Spot Hitch" as he puts himself in every one of his pictures.
Bernard Herrmann was credited as a "sound consultant" in "The Birds".
"Vertigo" is his masterpiece.
I was surprised how good The Birds is. Not what I expected at all.
@@5ilver42 The characters are all fleshed out very well.
@@5ilver42 - I saw it again last year for the first time in a couple of decades and it just didn't do much for me. Plus, the whole issue with Hitchcock ruining Tippi Hedren's career after she rejected his romantic and sexual advances led to him psychologically terrorizing her during the making of the film, and he later sexually assaulted her in a limousine, I think it was. She was forced to make another film with him the next year because he wouldn't let her out of her contract. There's a film called "The Girl" about the whole ordeal with the great Toby Jones play Hitchcock.
Vertigo is another Hitchcock great masterpiece, suspence and plot there are crazy. Thank you for reacting to these golden films! ❤
It's hard to overemphasize how shocking this movie was to 1960 audiences. It changed horror movies forever. The sequel is surprisingly good, IMO.
This movie is why I lock the door when I shower.
Lol. I dont lock it but definitely think about it 😂
My grandparents saw “Psycho” when it premiered in Manhattan in September of 1960, and the plot was kept secret by the movie studio. There was a lot of advertising for the movie, but it didn’t tell you much, just that it was a “suspense” film. Alfred Hitchcock had been the most famous director in the world since the 1940’s, so audiences would go to see a movie simply because it was a Hitchcock movie, much like how people will go to a Steven Spielberg movie now.
Needless to say, my grandparents were freaked out. My grandmother was afraid of taking a shower, but their Manhattan apartment didn’t have a bathtub, just a large glass walled walk-in shower. My grandfather played the violin in an orchestra, and he knew the shrieking sound during the murders in “Psycho” was made by violins, so he taught himself how to play it. He waited a few weeks after seeing the movie, and when my grandmother was going to take a shower in the morning he told her he was going to the store to get some food. He didn’t go to the store, he listened outside the apartment door until he heard the shower running, then he snuck inside, grabbed his violin, and played the “EEK EEK EEK” sound while standing near the open bathroom door. My grandmother freaked out big time. He thought it was the funniest thing ever, while she stayed angry at him for days.
this movie & the Jodi Arias case.
@@Mike-rk8px Easy to do if you have any violin playing ability.
They do sell shower curtains with that famous photo Janet Leigh's face screaming
“She might have fooled some people, but she didn’t fool my mother.” My favourite line of the movie!
No she didn't Norman ❤️❤️❤️❤️
it was "Put it this way, she may have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother".
Music: Bernard Herrmann. The same guy who wrote music for Citizen Kane.
And Taxi Driver. All 3 legendary scores, and very different from each other too.
And all of Hitchcock's films from the mid '50s to the mid '60s.
His score for Vertigo is a masterpiece.
It's hard to tell what PSYCHO would play like without that score. It's iconic. Just by itself played instrumentally it evokes terror and building tension and is quite enjoyable melody wise. Hermann was a musical genius
If there were a Mount Rushmore of film composers, Bernard Herrmann would be on it. Other iconic Herrmann scores include North by Northwest, Vertigo, and Taxi Driver. He also wrote the creepy "whistle theme" for the British thriller Twisted Nerve, later recycled in Kill Bill and American Horror Story. He also composed the iconic Twilight Zone theme.
Glad that you both recognized how brilliant "Psycho" is. It is truly considered a masterpiece in filmmaking.
The other bank secretary is Hitchcock's daughter Patricia.
And oddly enough he gave her that line about being overlooked because of her wedding ring 🤭🤦🏻
@allen4188 wow but that how men rated a woman in those days.
@@markr.devereux3385 They still do.
pat was in a few of her dad's movies. i think she was in strangers on a train
Actually the two women work at Mr. Lowery's real estate office, not a bank. That's why Janet's supposed to take the $40,000 cash to the bank, but obviously does not.
I had a great aunt who saw this movie and it terrified her so bad she spent the rest of her life only taking baths, she refused to use the shower ever again. It’s crazy how movies used to affect people back then.
Janet Leigh (Marion) reportedly never showered again either!
One of my best friends, same thing. She was a kid when she saw this movie (with her older sister and her boyfriend). She was so traumatized, only baths for her from then on.😂
I live in an apartment building and I always take showers, but when I’m home alone and in the shower, I get very nervous if I hear any noises coming from another apartment. I saw the movie when I was a kid, and it really did affect me and a lot of other people that way. You have to understand that we had never seen anything like that before. The shower scene and detective on the stairs murder (with that creepy “eek eek eek” score by Bernard Herrmann) scared the hell out of us back then.
@@MsAppassionata I remember her telling me all about it. My mother was 14 when she saw “The Exorcist “ in the movie theater and till this day has never watched another horror film ever again!
@@leeannmcdermott8313 Someone wrote a joke about it: "My mother was so frightened she threw the book in the ocean. I bought another copy, soaked it in water, and left it next to her bed."
The concept of fingerprints being unique to each person dates back to the 1800's. However, in all the Sherlock Holmes stories, the only time they are mentioned (as "finger marks") was The Case of the Norwood Builder. Strangely enough, it wasn't until the invention of Scotch tape in the early '30's that they became a staple of law enforcement and mystery stories. This invention allowed an investigator to take a soft brush and brush on a powder, then put the tape over the print and "lift" it by putting the tape on a card, where it could be preserved forever.
There are two major twists in this movie. It is rare that a viewer hasn’t heard of at least one of them.
Also they seem to think 40K isn't very much. It was then.
The film is now so old that the twists have passed out of common knowledge. Most people under 30 have never seen it. I envy them being able to see this movie as it was intended to be seen, with no spoilers whatsoever (the ads in 1960 actually urged viewers, "Don't reveal the secret!")
Norman bates ki11ed his mother. Couldn't stand her constantly nagging, but once he got rid of her . The house was too quiet and empty. So he had to put her back in his mind and with her body. 😢
@@SnabbKassa Yeah. It would be about $417,341.50 today.
@@raymondlin8728 Based on Ed Gein.
The first slasher film. Set the pattern that the girl having 'illicit sex is the first to get knocked off. Every slasher film owes a debt to this movie.
Hitchcock was the Master of Suspense. The shower scene has been studied over and over. According to sources Psycho's shower scene was made up of 78 different pieces of film with 52 rapid cuts in only 45 seconds, with the over-stimulation adding another layer to the suspense.
Yep. The knife is never seen piercing the skin and the blood is chocolate syrup. Our minds put it all together. Hitchcock is actually in the movie briefly as one of the people who crosses the road in front of her when she stops at a stoplight. I can only imagine the effect this movie had on audiences in 1960!
@@JustWasted3HoursHere In his cameo in "Psycho" he is seen through the window at Marion's workplace.
@@creech54 Yep, you're right. I think he was a street-crossing pedestrian in another of his movies.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Every cameo. ruclips.net/video/_YbaOkiMiRQ/видео.html My favorite is missing the bus in N/NW.
The OG of "MTV style editing"
Other Hitchcock thrillers you must react to: Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Strangers On a Train, and North by Northwest.
Also, WAIT UNTIL DARK and Charade. Both With Audrey Hepburn. Even though Hitchcock didn’t direct them he might as well have. The former has one of the top 10 scariest moments in film history
The Birds.
Wait Until Dark is so good and hardly anyone has watched it
The movie I think is very 'Hitchcockian' is "Sorry, Wrong Number"('48) w/Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster.
Also, To Catch a Thief, by Hitchcock
Nick: "Is he that delusional?"...😊😊😂😂 The Martin Balsam death scene must have been absolutely breathtaking in a theater. Best scene of the movie.
I always thought it looked weird and fake. Even as a little kid. I definitely appreciate it more now as I've grown to like more artsy, less literal filmmaking.
@@Progger11 Quite interesting how they shot that scene.
Anthony Perkins was fantastic in this one 👏
Its cute how you guys automatically went to today's morals. The early 60s were a different time, and the film comission wouldnt have gone for adultry. They did get flack for Janet Leigh's underwear showing and a toliet flush 😅
For "I Dream of Jeannie" show they covered her belly button. 50's, on "I Love Lucy" a show about a married couple, their bedroom had two beds.
Film commission: "We demand NON-FLUSHING toilets! And, women WITHOUT underwear!"
In a way, this movie ruined Anthony Perkins's career . After this he kept getting scripts to play crazies only.Which is why it took until the 1980s for him to do Psycho 2
$40,000 is equal to about $417,300 today.
i cannot imagine handing that amount of money to someone haha
The car trade-in difference: $700. then was equal to $7,386. now. People did not carry around that much in cash.
@nickreacts6394 you could purchase a new 3 bdm 1&1/2 bath w/ VA no down payment for 19000. Eventually that very home would have market value of 375 k to 400k
My uncle a wheeler dealer in contracting industry drove a 1959 coup de ville convertible had a maid and custom home in the hills a view of the harbor and city skyline. My father who was a foreman said my uncle pulled down 60K a year a very very upper class income. So operators like the one portrayed in the movie could pay cash for a property and often did to get a low ball deal. Of course in today's world it would be too much cash with inflation factored in.
She did work for him for 10 years…
The very last police officer who gave Norman the blanket. Was comedian Ted Knight he was the news anchor on the Mary Tyler Moore show through the 1970's. He played the snobby uptight judge in Caddyshack too. He played jerks in his early career on many tv series in the 1950'/60's too.
His last role was on the 80s family sitcom 'Too Close For Comfort' which he worked on for 6 seasons until he passed away in 1986.
He also did voice work in Filmation cartoons in the late '60s.
The shower scene as well as the shocking twist ending were on Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
Alfred Hitchcock's favorite movie he made was Shadow of a Doubt. (1943) I agree it was his best movie. The other office secretary here was Hitchcock's daughter Patrica Hitchcock too. She was also in Stranger's on a train as supporting character too.
Shadow of a Doubt is great
Patricia Hitchcock was a supporting actress in Dad’s movie, Strangers on a Train, which is a pretty good movie.
I have seen a replica of the Psycho house at Universal Studios Florida. There is a Hitchcock museum at the theme park that is dedicated to all of his movies. There are three sequels to this movie which are all good in their own way even though Alfred didn’t direct them since they were made after he died.
Other Hitchcock movies are
The Birds
Strangers on a Train
Dial M for Murder
North by Northwest
The Man Who Knew too much
Vertigo
Marnie
Frenzy
Saboteur
The voice of Mother was three people Jeanette Nolan , Virginia Gregg and Paul Jasmin.
They're 'sneaking around' BECAUSE they are not married. This is an earlier aera.
They did have fingerprinting, though.
Look up taxidermy.
Era🎩
It shocks me people don’t know that until the early 1970’s you didn’t have abortion or the pill. Your chances of getting pregnant and having a child were much higher. It was still a social taboo.
This generation knows nothing about paying for a few hours instead of a whole night, or registering under the false name of Mr and Mrs Smith.
Oh, people were definitely doing those things, a lot more often than some people think. You just didn't want it to be known that you did it.
@@bobsylvester88 abortions have been done for centuries, but it was considered taboo to admit to having one until fairly recently.
I have a distinct memory as a 5 year old of accidentally seeing a TV commercial for the 1990s Psycho remake and refusing to take a shower for years because of it and sticking with baths. Luckily got that aversion to showers out of my system by the time I was in middle school and finally saw the original movie at a Halloween party. The shower scene still made my skin crawl as did the staircase scene
Janet Leigh does swallow during the close up. Alma Reville (Hitchcock's wife) noticed it during the sneak preview with studio execs. She was one of the best film editors in the British film industry before her marriage to Hitch. Also they used Hershey's Chocolate syrup for the blood, because red looked grey and blended badly with the white porcelain tub. What peeved the studio execs wasn't the shower scene, but the filming of flushing the toilet. That was the first movie that showed a toilet being flushed in a major motion picture in the U.S.
In the film 'Hitchcock' when Psycho was first shown, they dealt with the shower scene by just showing Hitchcock in the foyer listening to the screaming in the theatre. Clever move. Alma had a major role in it to show how important she was to his process.
Janet Leigh's gulp was either edited out, or happened while the scene was frozen right when it started, so audiences never saw it. What nobody realized at the time was that the iris of her eye should have been dilated since she no longer had any muscle control, being dead. An eye doctor wrote a letter to Hitchcock pointing that out.
One reason for using Hershey's chocolate syrup in this scene was that it had just been put on the market in a plastic squeeze bottle, which made it much easier to splatter around. Up till then it had only been available in cans, which I remember.
The Horror......
"Dressed to Kill" [1980] has several direct references to "Psycho" [1960].
Hitchcock is perhaps Brian De Palma's strongest influence.
Check out his films "Sisters" (1973) and "Obsession" (1976). Both had scores by Bernard Herrmann.
Hitchcock influenced a lot of directors through the years, even François Truffaut. But who influenced Hitchcock? He said that his mother did. "When I was a baby, she said, 'BOO!'"
FYI Alfred Hitchcock used Hershey chocolate syrup for the blood in the bathroom scene; also 5he actress is Jamie Lee Curtis mother; she played in the original Halloween movie, which is another classic
Hate to be picky, but according to Stephen Rebello's great book "The Making of Psycho" (p. 112), Jack Barron, the make-up man, said "SHASTA had just come out with chocolate syrup in a squeeze plastic bottle...up to that time in film, we were using Hershey's, but you could do a lot more with a squeeze bottle."
I'm no genius; anyone who buys Rebello's book will discover this, and as long as the accurate info has been documented, us fans should all be aware of it.
@@HassoBenSoba and Hershey's syrup used to come in a can (for some reason)
Very good reaction. You can not appreciate how this movie shocked the audience in 1960. Its almost always mentioned how Janet Leigh was the big star and killed. What is not talked about often is how shocking it was that Anthony Perkins was the killer. He had been in movies playing an awkward young man that was often the hero. His big break was playing the Quaker son of Gary Cooper in Friendly Persuasion. He had always been a “ good kid” in movies. Perkins gave such an iconic performance that he was forever known for Norman Bates. I can not properly explain how shaken we were leaving the theatre and how it changed cinema .
I hadn't thought of that aspect of it. Takes me back to watching him and a young Jane Fonda in "Tall Story"
@@shwicaz Yes. My Father loved Westerns and Baseball I knew him from The Tin Star and playing Jimmy Piersall in Fear Strikes out, both watching with my Dad. But it was Friendly Persuasion that he was known for before Psycho. He was a Quaker. An awkward peaceful boy that hated violence. I vividly remember a woman behind us telling her husband that she could tell that “ that poor Tony Perkins is lonely having to take care of his mother. “
Psycho practically killed Perkins' movie career, so ingrained was he in the public perception
@@terencejay8845 Sadly it made him forever Norman Bates. Even when he co wrote the excellent murder mystery, The Last of Sheila, the entertainment press asked him many questions about Norman Bates. Greatness can sometimes be a curse .
Norman Bates was inspired by real life grave robber and murderer Ed Gein, as were Buffalo Bill from Silence Of The Lambs and Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Another film with Tony Perkins playing a disturbed character is the cult classic "Pretty Poison", costarring the beautiful Tuesday Weld.
Watch the "Psychoklahoma" episode of The Brak Show sometime! 😂
My father was too terrified to see this movie but my mum a thrill seeker went ahead and watched. She said everyone was hysterical about this movie at the time
Difficult to recognise him but Frank Albertson (who played the oil magnate character Tom Cassidy in this movie) was also Sam ‘Hee-Haw’ Wainwright in “It’s A Wonderful Life” (1946).
Great call. One of my favorite movies
Sam Wainwright was a likeable oaf in IAWL but Tom Cassidy was a real unlikeable one.
@@billolsen4360
Why “unlikeable”?
"I guess he must have noticed my wedding ring." Such an amusing moment.
This was the first movie to show a toilet on screen. I recommend listening to the podcast "Inside Psycho". Its all about how this movie came to be and is done like a radio play.
*a toilet being flushed
When you guys get the chance, you two should watch Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window as well as Birds; both really great.
My favorite bit of trivia from this movie is that John Williams included a small piece of the music into Star Wars.
I didn't know that!!! WOW!!!
Where? I do know that Ben Burtt the sound designer on Star Wars used actor John Wayne's voice sped up considerably as the voice of the long-snouted alien spy that follows Luke and Ben through Mos Eisley. Never heard about the Psycho music though.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Then google it.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere After the millenium falcon is captured by the death star tractor beam, and the heroes come out of the hidden compartment that Solo uses for smuggling, 3 notes from this score are heard.
@@nsa45-bp5lv You mean this bit? ruclips.net/video/zQaPCCPErwI/видео.htmlsi=g-Rn9Du5NbOGn0B1&t=57
Classics are classics for a reason. Hitchcock movies are for the most part all iconic.
The TV series "Bates Motel" is also really good.
I'm not given to watch a series all at once, but I did watch all of Bates Motel in under a week.
The "guy playing Norman" was Anthony Perkins who was very famous and a fabulous actor who never made a bad film. Watch "Pretty Poison" for starters. I believe Psycho put him on the radar but he went on to have quite a career. He is one of my favorites.
Have you seen North Sea Hijack?
a couple of things.hitchcock always make cameos in his movies.the girl with janet leigh in the office was hitchcocks daughter.also,there was a man in the midwest in the 50s named ed gein.he is the inspiration for norman bates,leatherface and buffalo bill in silence ofthe lambs..janet leigh aparently could not take a shower for the rest of her life
Really liked Anthony Perkins. He was such a great actor and was good in so many films and plays. May he R.I.P.
Rear Widow is not just my favorite Hitchcock movie, but one of my all time favorites of any genre.
this movie is incredible !!
My favourite Hitchcock film is "Foreign Correspondent." Two fun comedy horror movies are "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "The Ghostbreakers." The latter has nothing to do with "The Ghostbusters."
You need to realize that at the time Psycho was released in September of 1960 it was considered an extremely graphic movie. It wasn't aired on television until June of 1967 and even then only after being significantly edited.
Psycho 2 olso is fantastic you mast see!!!! hello from Greece 😊
All the sequels are good
Such a classic.
For more thrillers or murder mysteries I recommend: Dial M for Murder (1954), Niagara (1953) Rear Window (1954), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Charade (1963), Lone Star (1996), China Town (1974), L. A. Confidential (1997), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
At this time, I believe that the license plate was tied to the car, not the owner. This is IMO one of the top 25 movies but it’s not the best. For me the top spot is either Rear Window or North by Northwest.
Great reactions you two...
You two should also check out the underrated sequel 'Psycho II' (1983) with Anthony Perkins/Norman & Vera Miles/Lila returning. And new cast members, Dennis Franz (from Die Hard 2, City Of Angels & TV's NYPD Blue), Robert Loggia (from The Sopranos, Over The Top & Big) and Meg Tilly (from The Big Chill, Fame & Chucky TV series....Actress Jennifer Tilly is her sister)...Even though Hitchcock had passed away in 1980, the director Richard Franklin was a longtime student & friend of Hitchcock, so the movie was in good hands. It is also written by Tom Holland (who would later bring us Fright Night, Thinner, The Langoliers & Child's Play - the 1st Chucky movie). Music was by oscar winning composer Jerry Goldsmith (who did the scores to The Omen, Alien, Poltergeist, Gremlins, Chinatown, Planet Of The Apes, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Patton, Rambo: First Blood, Total Recall, LA Confidential, The Mummy, etc)...and yes 'Psycho II' also has yet another twist ending (no spoilers). Definitely worth watching in my opinion.
Did they use FINGERPRINTS back then? Of course! The knowledge of fingerprint uniqueness is actually ancient, but for crime investigation in North America, pretty much around the turn of the 20th century. This movie was made in 1960.
It is still important for people to remember that although they had fingerprinting, they did not have searchable electronic databases. So, fingerprinting was only useful in very specific circumstances.
@@melissaflora8450 they still had suspects to check
That comment made me think they were actually wondering about DNA, which was NOT yet being used to identify criminals then.
One of the classics that opened the trail for others ❤ great choice
Our parents wouldn't let us watch this movie when it came on TV. One weekend I went to stay with my Grandma (1967 and I was 10). We were watching TV and then this movie came on. I can remember being creeped out by the beginning music. I don't remember the shower scene bothering me much. The reveal at the end when Lila finds Mrs. Bates scarred me for life! I still hide my eyes at that part to this day.
Vertigo from two years earlier can be paired with this one. Considered by critics one of the greatest films and a personal film to Hitchcock.
“Then who’s that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery?” Such a well delivered line. It’s like the origin of every “why, there hasn’t been a (blank) here in (blank) years…”
I like how it also makes that line major red herring: as there isn't anyone in that grave... brrr..
Hitchcock would not allow any one in to the theater after the movie started because janet leigh was killed off within 30 min once the movie started
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My mom told me the story of movie theaters not allowing folks into the theater when this movie had already started. She said it was a big deal that they killed Janet Leigh off so early in the movie. She told me people were lined up around blocks to see this movie.
@@KelliFranklin My Dad also told me that every single person who came out of the cinema swore on their lives that they saw the knife going in.
@@lexiburrows8127 I've heard that through the years as well! Lol
what a cute couple! Love your reactions...
Hey Nick Reacts, you were right. It is Alfred Hitchcock in the cowboy hat outside the real estate office doing his trademark cameo.
Hitchcock wanted to make his cameo early on so people weren't constantly looking for him throughout the film.
I'm so early ahhh. Hope you enjoyed this classic!
Considering you do long format series reactions? I'd be remiss not to mention Bates Motel.
Freddy Highmore and (more importantly to me) Vera Farmiga vehicle that casts the former as Norman and the latter as Norma.
Well worth seeing. One of those shows that lives rent free in my head.
Yes!!!! I'd looooove to see reactions to Bates Motel! It is so disturbing but I love it😂❤❤
Bernard Herrmann’s other memorable scores include Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (as well as the little known Twisted Nerve, used by Tarantino for Darryl Hannah’s whistling ‘nurse’ scene in Kill Bill).
"Twisted Nerve" wasn't a Hitchcock movie.
@@creech54 No! Annoyingly for me, I included lots of other films, changed my mind, deleted them, but incorrectly failed to delete that ‘Hitchcock’s’.
Thank you
@@johnmayhew9769 I've screwed up edits, before. 🙂
Although this movie doesn't show too much blood - or too much skin - for the time, it shocked audiences out of their seats. The rigid Hays Code censorship rules in effect from the early '30's until 1969 (when it was replaced by the current letter code rating system) really held the lid down. People got shot in many movies during this people, but you rarely see blood, only neat round bullet holes. Certainly not flowing blood. Apparently the depiction of the murder here required something new - a substance to simulate blood. Hitchcock used Hershey's chocolate syrup (also used for the oil for the tin man in the Wizard of Oz). Part of the reason this movie was filmed in black and white at this late date was because Hitchcock felt the blood would look less gruesome in not seen in red.
Hitchcock was always pushing the envelope in terms of censorship. The amount of nudity in the shower scene was borderline scandalous. That Sam and Marian, two unwed people seen frolicking in bed at the beginning also raised questions. (Yes, back then it was illegal to rent a room in a hotel or motel to unmarried people was illegal, as the owner could be charged with running a house of ill repute. People might try to go for a quickie in a hotel but they would not normally have luggage, which is why a marriage license was required.)
This was also the first time a flushing toilet was seen. The strange thing that raised the censors' ire the most was the use of the word "transvestite" in the explanation at the end. The studio thought it referred to some underground perverted sex act. Hitchcock had to show them the dictionary definition of "cross dressing" for them to allow it in.
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The actor who plays the obnoxious rich guy with the $40,000 played the rich guy "Hew Haw" Sam Wainwright in It's A Wonderful LIfe.
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Hitchcock's daughter Pat plays the other women in the office, who gave her husband tranquilizers on the day of their wedding. She was in two other of his films.
Fun Fact: Ted Danson of Cady Shack, Mary Tyler Moore and Too Close for Comfort fame is one of the police officers in the station at the end.
LOL Ted Danson was on CHEERS and Three men & a Baby/CREEPSHOW the movie. His name was Ted Knight.
Strange that you didn't mention the role that most people would associate him with; Sam the bartender, on "Cheers".
His name is Ted Knight, Mary Tyler Moore show.
Another fun fact, when Billy is revealed as one of the killers is the original Scream he quotes the Norman Bates line “we all go a little mad sometimes “ right before Billy shoots Randy.
16:16 Many years later there was a shot-for-shot remake of _Psycho_ with a slight difference when we see his peering eye as he spies on her undressing: you can see from his eye that he's shaking a bit rhythmically and there's a slight "slapping" sound, I believe...
Yep, Norman is clearing masturbating in the remake, which makes sense but which obviously could not be suggested at all in 1960.
There are anecdotal accounts of Ed Gein (whom Psycho is based on) giving gifts of venison (deer meat) to his neighbors. In the mental hospital he claimed to have never killed a deer in his life
Must watch Wait Until Dark Audrey Hepburn; Dead Ringer, Bette Davis; Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Strangers On A Train, Rope, The Man That Knew Too Much, Diql M For Murder and The Birdw; all by Alfred Hitchcock, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Jane Fonda, The Post Man Always Ring Twice; Lana Turner all classics😁
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Jane Fonda" Huh? That was Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
I saw Whatever Hppened To Baby Jane when I was a child and it was such a trauma. I was definitely too young for it. As an adult I can appreciate the themes. A very common human situation throughout history. But ugh, how this particular one plays out…
Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Strangers on a Train are Hitchcocks best. You'll love them all!
I suggest 'From Dusk Till Dawn' with Tarantino and George Clooney :-)
Fun Fact: Anthony Perkins was paid $40,000 (about $422,000 in 2024 dollars) to play Norman Bates - the same amount that Marion pilfers from her boss. I won a lot of trivia contests on that one! :)
If you enjoyed "Psycho," definitely check out "Hitchcock," with stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as Alma Hitchcock. The move is based on Stephen Rebello's excellent book, "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of 'Psycho.'"
The voice of Mother was played by three actors. One man and two women.😉 The film "Psycho IV: The Beginning" (1990) is a prequel to this film with young Norman Bates and his mother. Anthony Perkins appears in the film as older Norman.
Also, Perkins did not play "Mother" in the two kill scenes.
Psycho is one of my horror favorites! I have the Physcho movie poster on my livingroom wall amongst my other favorite horror movies!
There was a lot of bird imagery in "Psycho". Being British, Hitchcock was familiar with referring to women as "birds". As a clue to the killer's identity, Norman, when he discovers Marion's body, "knocks off the bird" picture from the wall. And Marion's last name is "Crane", too.
And movie starts in Phoenix.
@@ramonacosta2647 Ahhhhhh!
Before CGI is where you find the real filmmakers. Now, with a big budget, everything is possible. In Psycho, tension is made step by step, using different shots, little details, light and music. And when the leading lady is killed before tthe middle of the story, audiences were put in a state of fear and shock, not sure what to expect from the movie anymore. Split personalities is a fascinating subject. Norman could talk and answer as his mother, believing this is all true. Masterpiece from the Master Hitchcock! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I became a new subscriber of your channel after this movie reaction. 👍✌️The Tv series Bates Motel is a prequel of this story and tries to explain how Norman became the guy we know in this movie. And there you are introduced to Miss Bates, too (Norman’s mother).
It's the false name that gets Marion killed. When Norman talks about "private traps", Marion realizes what she's done, creating her own private trap, and decides to go back and do the right thing. At that moment, she reveals her real name to Norman, and it's then that Norman realizes he can kill her.
And the moment where Norman gets caught is when he says "she couldn't fool my mother". He means *himself* of course, the craftier "mother" side of himself, and he says this instinctually, almost as self-praise, but then immediately panics when he realizes Arbogast wants to see his mother, which is of course impossible. These are the kinds of things you wouldn't necessarily notice until you rewatch the film. Psycho is a carefully crafted mystery.
If you want to watch another great 1960s horror film, I can highly recommend Rosemary's Baby. It's a masterpiece.
Three Faces of Eve, Dial M for Murder and Days of Wine and Roses are three great films too.
Three Faces of Eve is a great suggestion
A classic film I'd recommend is All About Eve from 1950.
A great story of betrayal and backstabbing and obsessive ambition starring the amazing Bette Davis.
Absolutely! All About Eve is a fantastic movie
The Maltese Falcon is great.
A house at this time was less than $9,000 for a tract house. In 1955 our house was $9,000 for a 3bdr, bath and a half.
It was much higher in calif. by 1958, more like 18.5 k. I know in early 1950s, new housing was offered with no money down VA loans for a 2bdrm 1 bath home for 10 - 12000. My buddy and his family bought one and are still there.
And a half bath has NO shower.
@billolsen4360 I never quite got that straight. At the time a full bath had a sink toilet and a tub with shower fixtures /tub spout. Like a regular hotel room. Now in master bedroom their was a 1/2 bath small sink vanity toilet and cheap shower with no shower door. It was much more cramped. The full bathroom with tub was much larger to. fit a standard tub. Now a full bath has vanity sometime double a toilet and both tub & shower.stall. Nobody had that in a 1950s tract home. So it fell in between a full bath with no shower stall just the tub and a 1,/2 bath very small with cheap shower you could barely access.. no powder room in less expensive new home. That's changed
My dad had the twist of this film ruined for him back in the day.
That's horrible! As bad as revealing, "NO. I am your ******."
Virginia Gregg was an American TV, film, and radio actor whose most notable role, as the voice of Norman Bates's mother in "Psycho," went uncredited for years. Not Tony Perkins.
The last split-second of the last closeup of Norman's face at the end has a very short superimposition of his mother's mummified face, before the shot of Marion's car being pulled out of the swamp.
This was one of my favorite reactions to psycho…and I’ve seen about 100 of them! Very refreshing! You guys should check out the 3 sequels, all started by Anthony Perkins!
Yes, that was Alfred Hitchcock. He makes an appearance in all of his movies. I like to try to find him in them all. $40k in 1960 is just over $417,300 in 2024.
At the end of the shower scene 17:29 Hitchcock said he could see the pulse of Vera Miles' neck. He opted to use a still shot and masterfully made everyone believe it was just another part of the standard film with the rotating pullback on the shot. Hitch never missed a trick.
Very good reaction you two. BTW, did you know that there's a "Psycho 2" and "Psycho 3"? You should react to them, since they're underrated movies.
Loved the reaction, especially from someone who knew nothing about the movie!
Since you're looking at older films, I have to recommend one of my favorite old classic comedies, that came out just over 50 years ago: "What's Up Doc?" from 1972. Nothing serious, a lot of fun, mistaken identities and one of my favorite car chases of all time through the streets of San Francisco.
There's a 'Bates' House' at the studio. It was built for Psycho 2, and has stood there ever since, up the hill from Whoville, built for 'The Grinch that Stole Christmas'.
Idk if anyone said this yet, but I think this character, as well as Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, is based on the real life Ed Gein, if you wanna look it up at your own discretion.
Also, how the Final Destination films influenced a generation's fear of log trucks, this movie influenced my mom's generation's fear of showers. 😅😓
The voice of mother was an actress named Virginia Greg. It wasn't Anthony Perkins doing the voice.
Good choice. It's a masterpiece of genuine horror. The story is by Robert Bloch who based it on an actual psycho named Ed Gein from Plainfield, Wisconsin.
You now simply HAVE to react to 'Psycho II' (1983), which picks up the story 22 years after the events of this film, with Norman being released from the nuthouse and trying to rebuild his life at the Bates Motel....
*no spoilers* I personally enjoy all the twists and turns throughout the sequel...is Norman Bates slowly going back to his old habits???...
Tarentino likes 2 better than 1
Psycho 3 is a good classic 80s slasher and worth the watch but psycho 4 has great flashbacks and the ending wraps up the franchise so good . Anthony perkins is Norman in all 4 .
@@MLJ7956 Loved Anthony Perkins' stutter in that movie. "The c-c-cutlery"
Hitchcock was brilliant. That shot of her eye…he used a still photo, and dripped water on it while filming it in a zoom out.
Winn: "Next thing to do: Buy a bigger purse!"
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Old comedies:
Arsenic & Old Lace (1944)
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966)
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Murder mysteries:
The Thin Man (1934)
Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
Death On The Nile (1978)
And Then There were None (1945)
Ten Little Indians (1965) remake of one above.
@02:34 - Yes, that’s director Alfred Hitchcock’s cameo. And the girl at the desk talking to Marion is his daughter Patty Hitchcock.
You both kill me with your sense of humor and laughs lol, you're a delight to watch!