I had a friend (Moon Brooke) say that my choice of shirt was very appropriate for this reaction 🤣 I didn't even realize how much it was until she said that! I just picked that shirt because I got it at Spirit Halloween and figured it'd be a good shirt for the first October film! 🤣 Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this reaction! HAPPY SPOOKY MONTH!
Great Reaction!!! And if you rewatch the movie, it's A different experience and almost a different scary movie because now that you know the twist at the end, when you watch it again, it's A whole new level of pshyco and you can see how creepy Norman really is and how he operates (for example, when you heard him and his mother talking, now you know it's him talking to himself)
@@OGBReacts please react to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) An American Werewolf In London (1981) Scream(1996) The Mist(2007) The Cabin In The Woods (2012) The Invisible Man (2020)
@@OGBReacts I saw the film in a theater when it first came out. Yes, the most startling thing was that the lead character (up until then) got killed off half way through. Nobody had ever seen that before.
It's increasingly rare for someone to watch this movie without knowing all the plot twists in advance, and your reaction was perfect. A very enjoyable reaction video.
@@OGBReacts Did you know they used chocolate syrup for blood in the shower? Another of those facts about the movie "everyone" knows... Also, I think this was the first time you got to se an actual toilet on the big screen. Isn't that right? Anyone?
@@OGBReacts Janet Leigh is the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis who is the star of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). John Carpenter cast Jamie Lee Curtis in the lead role because her mother Janet Leigh was in Psycho.
@@jmiyagi12345 Agreed. But the longer Hitchcock could keep you believing the mother was the killer, the more effective the final reveal would be. Aside: your first name obviously gives you a special connection to the movie.
Fun fact: The actor Frank Albertson who plays Tom Cassidy (the guy who is giving his daughter the $40,000 for her wedding) is the same guy who plays Sam Wainwright ( the hee-haw guy) in "It's a Wonderful Life."
in Halloween H20, both Jamie Lee and Janet act in it... as an Easter Egg, they also included the car (that was pushed into the swamp) and a portion of the music from Psycho in it (H20) as well as Janet's character's name was Norma (another nod to Norman Bates)
This was a lot of fun, I haven't seen anyone in my lifetime that wasn't spoiled on "Mother". Nice to have someone genuinely surprised as when it originally came out.
My favorite line from Psycho (and the one that gives me chills every time I hear it) - "Who's that woman buried out in Green Lawn Cemetery?" A brilliantly-executed rhetorical red-herring!
When Hitchcock was a young kid, he was locked in a police cell for a short time as a lesson on "this is what happens to naughty boys" .... He never forgot that experience, and never trusted the police from that day forward
Ah yes... well known in Hitchcock's native Britain as the 'short, sharp, shock' to put naughty boys on the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, for anyone who already has received psychological abuse (most children), it causes hatred of authority, all adults and it's fair share of psychoes.
Hitchcock was very obsessive about getting just the right sound for the sound of the stabbing, and experimented with all kinds of different fruits and vegetables to see which would be the most effective. He ended up going with a honeydew.
I think it's amazing that in 1960 Alfred Hitchcock was able to make the prototypical slasher movie despite how uptight everyone was back then. There's is a lot of transgressive material in this movie. Norman peeping, the multiple views of the toilet, the protagonist who is a woman not only having illicit sex but also stealing thousands of dollars...it's like Hitchcock crammed every bit of triggering elements into this movie that he could get away with.
I liked what you said & your right. There is a book titled "it's only a bloody movie" it goes into detail regarding the film psycho & the issues & problems faced by Hitchcock in making the film. In Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Hitchcock in the film Hitchcock much was said about this & the obstacles he had to overcome.
It's always nice to see a reaction from someone who doesn't know the twists. I'd give anything to see how shocking this film was to audiences in 1960. The scariest part of this film to me has always been the last inner monologue by "mother"; the words combined with Norman's facial expressions get me every time.
That scene and the one where the detective gets it scared me the most. Unfortunately, my mother warned me about the shower scene and how many people were scared to take showers afterwards. I didn’t get to see it until years after it came out.
I couldn't wait to see your reaction to this movie and it did not disappoint. Fun Fact: The woman at the beginning with the headache medicine is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter. She has a bigger role in Strangers on a Train.
Three months later... yes, and I've seen about 4 years of 'newbies' reacting to this film, and all are predictably shocked. Some guess but none 'know'... and so many claim, "Oh no! The main character's dead!" while forgetting the name of this film is not THE EMBEZZLER or WOMAN ON THE RUN. None of them mention 'psycho' as a title or reference point - Hitch's screenplay just takes us so deep into Marion's Tale, and suddenly that's over and all we have 'left' is Norman. And Mother. Arbogast.. I hope all of them have a chance to see film festival showings of this film. They usually occur in October.
Making people go "WHAT?!" for 60 years... You would never make a movie like this now, the extended prologue explaining at the end feels weird as a modern viewer. But I get that explanation was totally necessary at the time, because audiences hadn't grown up with horror films about serial killers. I don't watch it often for fun, but I think that anyone interested in film needs to see it at least once, it is the OG Horror/Slasher from whence the entire genre grew. The guys that made Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween and such in the 70s 80s totally had their minds blown by this as teenagers.
Horror films nothing, audiences back then didn't grow up with mental illnesses being discussed at all. That explanation was about split personality and such.
If you think that the *split* was weird, check out the trailer sometime. Also: only other bait-and-switch moments like that I can think of are the genre shift in From Dusk Til Dawn and the protag change-up in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
CalciumChief is absolutely right. Back in 1960, people like Norman were called crazy, looney or nuts, and that was that. Psychiatry and psychology have come a long way since and the average person today is much better informed on such things.
Can you imagine the reaction of the audiences who saw this when it came out? When we were kids back in the 60s our parents wouldn't let us watch this on TV. I was about 10 in 1967 (yes I'm old!) I went to spend the weekend with my Grandma and the movie came on after something else we were watching. At the end when Lila goes down in the cellar and finds Mother it scared me so bad I couldn't sleep. Now that I'm older the movie still creeps me out in so many ways and I hide my eyes at the end even to this day!
33:14 "Why she wouldn't even harm a fly." One of my absolute favorite movie moments of all time. Sorry for the ridiculous number of comments. Psycho is one of my top 5 favorites of all time. Poster on the wall of my office and everything. :-) Really enjoyed this one.
This came out when my parents were newly married. My dad plays the violin. He would stand outside the bathroom while mom was showering and would play the "eh, eh, eh" part on the violin. Mom started locking the bathroom door.
A movie I wish I could watch again without any knowledge of the story and feel the surprises genuinely like you did. Wonderful reaction and glad you were able to be surprised by the twists.
Fun trivia: Marion (first girl) was played by Janet Leigh, who was one of the biggest box office names of her generation. She is also well known today as the mother of another of Hollywood's most famous horror actresses and A-lister, Jamie Lee Curtis. Janet is the original scream queen woth the single most famous movie scream and death scenes of all time and her legacy is the woman Hollywood dubbed The Scream Queen.
Never underestimate the power of an "old black and white movie". My mother told me she watched this in 1960 with my dad and she was petrified for days. Great reaction from you!
When this was first released, women were so terrified, they stopped taking showers and switched to baths. Something similar happened when Jaws came out. A lot of people stopped going into the water. The ones that went in, like myself, had there head on a swivel and kept whipping around looking for shark fins.
Alfred Hitchcock got an angry letter from a parent after this movie, saying that their daughter wouldn't take baths after seeing Diabolique, and now she won't take showers after seeing Psycho. Hitchcock's reply letter: "Send her to the dry cleaners."
Director Alfred Hitchcock bought all of the books from every bookstore so that nobody could know the ending ahead of time. This movie was Anthony Perkins's first movie that Hitchcock casted because he thought he was perfect for the part. It was shot in black and white in order to hide the red color of the blood
It was mainly shot in black & white to save money. Hitchcock wanted to show that a good movie could be made, on a shoestring budget. He also saved money by using the crew from his TV show which was almost a no-no at that time, because television was seen as the enemy by movie studios. They saw television as an existential threat to their industry. The blood issue maybe was an additional rational for black & white, but it would have been done in black & white regardless of the blood. Seems like I remember, that "Psycho" was produced for under $200,000?
Love that you had no idea about the ending. Back when this movie came out, the audience was asked not to disclose the ending to anyone, so others could be just as surprised. Great reaction!!
I love Hitchcock a lot, my fave of his is probably Shadow Of A Doubt or Strangers On A Train, some fantastically chilling scenes in both! Love that you're doing older movies :D p.s Anthony Perkins is a babe
Anthony Perkins nailed this role. He had a subtle creepiness about him that's difficult to describe. I can't think of a single other actor who could have pulled off the role. As great as Hitchcock was, "Psycho" might have been good, but without Anthony Perkins, it wouldn't have been legend!
Before that he was the handsome man in love stories (popular amongst the female audience). His agent advised him against taking on this part. A man who kills women dressed as his mother?! That would destroy his career!
@@haps2019 Which love stories? The only role I've seen Perkins in that was not about a character who was either somewhat sinister or weird was in "Friendly Persuasion".
@@andreaschmall5560 He starred as a basketball player in "Tall Story" which I think was a lightly romantic comedy. His co-star was Jane Fonda. ...Maybe the studio was trying to offset his mild mannered nature by having him play athletes? He also starred as a baseball player in "Fear Strikes Out", but it was a baseball player who had mental issues. These were both made before "Psycho". Perkins acted along side Gary Cooper in a Civil War movie mentioned earlier, "Friendly Persuasion". Hollywood thought; it would be the passing of the torch from Cooper to Perkins, since they were both tall/handsome leading men. Not really exceptional in Hollywood, but Anthony Perkins being gay was an open secret even back then, and he did come across as a little effeminate, although audiences of the time may have just taken it as mild mannered or as an "aw shucks" attitude. Of course, Rock Hudson was gay, but he didn't seem effeminate, so it doesn't necessarily mean anything, but Rock Hudson's sexuality wasn't an open secret yet. My cousin Sarah was a long time neighbor of Anthony Perkins from the early '60's though the early '90's in Chelsea in NYC. She told me, that he didn't hide, that he was gay, but he'd read somewhere a theory, that being gay was just an emotional immaturity, so he used it as an excuse to get married to a women in 1973. He stayed married until he died, after raising two sons. Sarah said, that he seemed to be a good father to his sons who were teenagers at the time she mentioned it to me. Perkins caught HIV at some point after his marriage, and died of AIDS in the 1992. Of course, in the old days, being gay was supposed to be a mental defect. That, plus wanting a family combined with people naturally wanting to fit in with "normal" society to some extent. Those factors made a lot gay people in the old days, both men and women, get married. Back in Victorian times, men and woman both weren't supposed to enjoy sex anyway. If they didn't like it, they were just supposed to "close their eyes and think of England", so it took the being gay factor out of it! This attitude kind of stood until the mid '70's, then had a brief resurgence in the '80's, when AIDS got bad (At least, Elton John who'd "come out" years before, married a women in the eighties for a time). ...Sorry, I kind of got sidetracked. Anyhow, Anthony Perkins was initially supposed to be a Gary Cooperesque leading man, but ended up being a hybrid between a leading man and a character actor. Overall, he had a successful career and despite being somewhat typecast, was one of the first major actors to appreciate, that there were many out of work actors who would love to have been typecast, so after only a few years of grumbling about it, he embraced it and even ended up doing a sequel to "Psycho" over 20 years later.
There are two biopic films on Hitchcock. One goes behind the scenes on how the Birds were made with Toby Jones as Hitchcock. The other one goes behind the scenes on how this movie was made with Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock.
I always tell people: Not a horror movie. Not a slasher. Hitchcock makes Suspense Dramas. (Then they watch it, and after it ends they hit me for lying.)
Sometimes suspense drama is scarier than a monster popping out at you. Hitchcock could give you nightmares with nothing more than a suggestion. Of course Alien went for both. Lol.
I couldn't wait for the end, I knew you were going to lose it, Best laugh I had All year, you're reaction was just as I thought it would be,you didn't disappoint,looooved it
Also -- the more familiar you are with this movie, the more the show rewards you. Throw-away lines from Norman's conversation with Marion like the highway getting moved or the location of the diner... such good stuff.
That was SO fun! I’ve known this movie’s twists and turns for decades, so while I will always recognize its greatness, the joy of being surprised or scared by it is long gone. But getting to relive all that vicariously was awesome. Nice, nice job! 👍🏻
Great reaction girl, I remember when I showed this to a friend, like 30 minutes into it he was like "he's the mother" :D Love that you had such a pure reaction to it, in this post-twist modern era where it's really hard to actually still surprise someone with this, you did the job perfectly! I so would have loved to see the audiences reaction back then.
"I LOVE your reaction the BEST because you LITERALLY didn't see the movie except for snipits here and there and didn't jump ahead of yourself while watching it like some reacters do
Watching your reactions was a lot of fun! Thanks! My mom saw it when it was new in theaters. She said Janet Leigh was a huge star, and she absolutely could not believe it when she was stabbed to death 40 minutes in! She said she thought, “If they killed off the main character halfway through, ANYTHING could happen now!” Also, Norman Bates was based off of real-life psycho Ed Gein. Read up on him, if you dare. Sick, sick, sick, SICK dude.
I really liked your reaction to Psycho. You were really sucked into it just like the millions of people in movie theaters across America seeing it for the first time. Can you imagine what it must've been like back in the day to see this in a crowded movie theater?
Glad you enjoyed!! I feel as though this and Rosemary’s Baby (another 60’s thriller/horror I’ve watched on this channel) had slightly similar public reactions! AKA everybody freaked the hell out 🤣
It must take an old goat like me to recognize the "indent" in the bed as being normal for a feather bed. I don't think most people these days knows what a feather bed, with an honest-to-god feather tick, really is.....or how they sleep, especially one with lots of down in it. Gives old goats like me a chuckle.
All time classic, watched this when I was like 10 and it scared the crap out of me, all the imagery of “mother” at the window freaked me out so bad I think because your imagination is so big when you’re a kid things like that can scare you 😂
Its such fun to watch young reactors who know nothing about this movie. They are shocked when Marion gets killed off so early & have their mind blown when they discover Norman is Mother. This was fun! My favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie is The Birds. Please add this to your list of movies to watch.
A slasher movie whose most terrifying, bonechilling scene is a man sitting quietly in a chair, thinking to himself in his mother's voice, and smiling at the camera.
Vera Miles is still with us at 92 years of age. She played Lila --the sister of Marion. The guy who played the deputy sheriff was John McIntire. He was the second trial master of "Wagon Train" --one of the most popular tv series of the 1960s. McIntire's wife was Jeanette Nolan. She supplied the voice of 'Mother Bates.'
Somebody may have mentioned this already, but she doesn't blow her cover with the Phoenix/Ms. Crane thing. Her talk with Norman convinced her to go back and try to correct her mistake and make things right. She has a full character arc before she gets randomly killed
Hey Sam. Some facts about this movie. Alfred Hitchcock was told that he was crazy for making a movie where your Main Character is Killed in the first part of the movie. Well he proved them wrong with his genius writing and directing. THIS movie started the show times scheduling in the theater. You have to see the movie from the beginning. Before this movie the theaters just played movies on a loop. You would just buy a ticket and watch the movie from whatever point. May be in the middle or end etc. Then sit there and watch it loop over again and catch what you missed.
This is a favorite reaction of mine! Your reactions at the end were pretty much what I was thinking the first time I watched this movie . I really enjoyed this one very much. Thank you and I look forward to more .
Congrats! You are the first reactor that didn't mention that this was a black and white movie, as if that somehow means you should lower your expectations.This was a shocking movie in its time, but more importantly it was the virtuoso movie-making that makes it stand the test of time.
This is such a classic! It's my favorite Hitchcock film. Such great twists in this movie. I'm pretty positive that the lead character getting killed part way through had not been done in a movie before, so that threw audiences for a loop. The twist end is great as well. And the transition to mother's skeletal face was a great final touch. The direction, music, and acting are all top notch. Anthony Perkins gives an amazing performance in this. And you actually care about him a bit in the beginning. (before he starts getting creepy anyway.)
Sadly, Marion Crane died in 1960 and was unable to watch the multitude of horror movies that came after...Had she that experience, , you are right...she would've left after meeting Norman.
Great Reaction! And well done for spotting the books! I haven't seen any other re-actors get the significance of the books. What sort of books have no title on the spine or the cover? I always wondered. That's what I like about Classic movies they can't show everything so things have hidden, layered meanings. I am reminded of the book shop in the equally awesome The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall. CCCP
I am amazed how no one notice the way Anthony Perkins( Norman) makes a quirky smile when he mentions: ..And the way he died.. When telling about the death of his step-dad😮.
Awesome reaction for such a great movie! Hitchcock actually ran a marketing campaign to keep what happened "Psycho" from being spoiled and audiences respected that, in 1960, something that would be impossible to pull off now. I'm looking forward to more October reactions! This was a great opener for this month's reactions! :D
Great reaction! Real horror doesn't make you scared of monsters, the dark or ghosts. It makes you scared of other seemingly normal people. That twist in the middle is unsettling. It kind of pulls the rug from under you and leaves you alone in the story, when the obvious protagonist is gone. It's a classic, but far from Hitchcock's best, in my opinion. Hope to see more now that you have had a few tastes.
Loved your reaction to this! The movie tricked me the exact same way the first time I saw it. Before watching the film, the only reference to it I was familiar with was an old DiGiorno Pizza commercial that showed the outside of the Bates Motel and had Norman and his mother arguing, with her scolding him for letting a pizza delivery person come to the property, and him explaining "It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno!". Then it showed him, as his mother, from about the same angle as the shot in the film where the detective was killed, but instead of attacking a person with the knife, he was slashing the pizza in half. The screen then faded to black, as the mother chuckled and said "Such a good boy!"
You mentioned during your recap that you were, "...doing what I do...trying to predict what was going to happen." An awful lot of people apparently watch movies this way and I have to say, I've never understood it nor have I ever done it. To me, spending the whole movie trying to predict what's going to happen next would be like someone who is really good at verbal story-telling being constantly interrupted by someone else trying to finish every other sentence, getting some things right but mostly getting things all wrong. I personally love the feeling of putting my trust completely in the hands of the storyteller. Riding a rollercoaster is WAY more fun to me if I'm not trying to steer it. I did enjoy your reaction to this crazy-good movie, though.
I can understand that, but I also just enjoy doing that I like trying to see what’s going to happen, and to me I find that more entertaining in a reaction video then being completely silent and just letting the movie run it’s course. I do this for reaction videos, but I’ll never do it as I’m actually watching a movie with other people haha. I like letting y’all know what’s on my mind, and so far people have enjoyed that too. Everybody is different though so I understand, and I get your point. That’s just how I am though. I’m glad you enjoyed it nonetheless. Thanks for watching!
How delightful to find someone who doesn’t know Psycho and it’s twists! Your reaction was awesome! What I’d give to see this film for the very first time again. Because mine, and just about every ones reaction the first time they see this movie and are unfamiliar with “mother” 😂, is to be utterly blown away. Just like you were. Not many film makers can really pull off the “never saw it coming” technique with a wicked twist, even today. Hitchcock mastered it 60 years ago. Hitchcock was a master of suspense you see, but also a master of the “red herring” technique - a term for a purposely misleading element in a story to throw off the audience from seeing the actual plot or lead character, in order to add more suspense, shock, and a “never saw it coming” response when the truth is finally revealed. He begins the film masked as a crime thriller, then half way through eliminates who we thought the film was about and it’s plot line, only to reveal the ACTUAL plot of what’s ACTUALLY a horror film and psychological mind F$&@😂...one that builds the tension to a fever pitch, with brilliant camera work and directing, incredible music and unforgettable performances (Anthony Perkins and Janet Lee -Jamie Lee Curtis’s scream queen Mom- are tremendous). It’s simply a perfect film and was the first of its kind in many ways, groundbreaking and revolutionary for its time and genre. And continues to be so to this very day. It set a standard in the horror genre that has rarely been met since. Hitchcock made many incredible films, such as Vertigo, Dial M For Murder, Rebecca, Shadow Of A Doubt, The Birds, and North By Northwest. But My all time favorite of his films has to be Rear Window, with Jimmy Stewart and the exquisite Grace Kelly in very memorable performances. I watch it at least once a year I adore it so much. That film is a master class in voyeuristic film making, and utterly engrossing, filled with great characters, perfectly crafted dialogue, lots of claustrophobic suspense and thanks to the premise and set of circumstances, great, GREAT, tension. You’d love it. 👍
Sam, watching your reaction, you looked like a Looney Tunes character who freezes upon the realization that a piano is falling inexorably toward your noggin...completely stunned. I literally almost fell out of my wheelchair. Your face was a meme, this was your best reaction yet. Keep up the good work and I'll see you on Twitch next week for some Resident Evil: 2, peace.💙
15:47 With everything in this movie the one thing that Hitchcock had to fight to keep in the movie ... showing a toilet on camera. Honestly. There were such weird-ass rules about stuff like that for movies and television shows back then.
Out of all the reactions to Psycho that I've seen, you're the only one who said what I was waiting to hear: "They killed the main character halfway through the movie!" Great job! Please do Rear Window, I love that movie too.
7:49 The thing that Alfred Hitchcock was the most brilliant at was simply building suspense. You're starting to see that at this point of the movie and it will only continue. Nothing has happened yet, but our anticipation that something is about to happen just keeps growing and growing. One of my favorite descriptions he ever gave of his theory of suspense was in a talk show interview. He described a group of people having a boring conversation around a table for 5 minutes. Then a bomb goes off and kills them. 5 minutes of boredom and 10 seconds of excitement. Not very effective. But take that exact same scenario and let the audience know that there's a bomb under the table. The dynamics of the scene change entirely. He lastly said that you must also never let the bomb go off. Something has to happen at the last second to stop it. He said that if you let the bomb go off, people don't enjoy the scene it just makes them angry. Also, the other secretary in the office was his daughter (Patricia Hitchcock). And he made his regular cameo as the man standing on the street outside the office window.
I’m so glad your reaction was so genuinely like mine when I first saw Psycho all those years ago (I’m Avery young-at-heart 65 year old. LOL!). I never saw that ending coming. I love your channel and subscribed as soon as I found you. Thanks for all your hard work to make your channel so good. Thanks for reading.
I'm so glad this mostly didn't get spoiled for you, it's such a famous film. The only part I don't like is the detective 'falling' backwards down the stairs, so fake. The shower scene was best spoofed by Mel Brooks in his Hitchcock tribute film "High Anxiety". I'd wait until watching "The Birds" and "Vertigo" before watching that one, I think it's Brooks' best although it gets little recognition. It has several cast members from his other films: Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn and Cloris Leachman. Very well made.
The thing that bugs me most about this movie is that there’s no freaking way voices would carry from the house all the way down to the motel in the pouring down rain. But, you know, I do love the movie.
The falling backwards down the stairs scene wasn't meant to seem real. It was meant to seem surreal. The same technique was used in a scene "Jaws", for instance.
@@MsAppassionata The one where Sheriff Brody (Roy Scheider) is sitting on a beach chair watching as a shark attack happens. The camera is on him to show his reaction and there is sort of a mismatched zoom of the background, like when the private detective (Martin Balsam) falls backward down the stairs in "Psycho". I'm sure, that there is a term for this type of camera/shot technique/effect, I just don't know, what it is. It's surreal nature adds to the in frame character's own shock or disbelief, in what is currently happening.
FYI, I think the reason she said she was going back to Phoenix and revealed her last name is because she realized she made a mistake taking the money and decided to return it. Obviously, she never got the chance.
Hitchcock Knew how to make movies. Even moments when nothing is really happening can be stressful. I love that. No special effects, no highspeed car chases, just great storytelling. Hope you react to more of his movies.
I had a friend (Moon Brooke) say that my choice of shirt was very appropriate for this reaction 🤣 I didn't even realize how much it was until she said that!
I just picked that shirt because I got it at Spirit Halloween and figured it'd be a good shirt for the first October film! 🤣
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this reaction! HAPPY SPOOKY MONTH!
You have to watch 'Psycho II' now! It's a must!!
Great Reaction!!! And if you rewatch the movie, it's A different experience and almost a different scary movie because now that you know the twist at the end, when you watch it again, it's A whole new level of pshyco and you can see how creepy Norman really is and how he operates (for example, when you heard him and his mother talking, now you know it's him talking to himself)
@@henryivan6858 Yes! I basically rewatched it as I edited this down! And I noticed all of that actually!
@@OGBReacts please react to
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Scream(1996)
The Mist(2007)
The Cabin In The Woods (2012)
The Invisible Man (2020)
@@OGBReacts I saw the film in a theater when it first came out. Yes, the most startling thing was that the lead character (up until then) got killed off half way through. Nobody had ever seen that before.
It's increasingly rare for someone to watch this movie without knowing all the plot twists in advance, and your reaction was perfect. A very enjoyable reaction video.
So glad you enjoyed! I knew of that shower scene a bit, didn't know it was THIS movie, and that ending?? WHEW
I'm so glad I didn't know about it!
@@OGBReacts Did you know they used chocolate syrup for blood in the shower?
Another of those facts about the movie "everyone" knows...
Also, I think this was the first time you got to se an actual toilet on the big screen. Isn't that right? Anyone?
@@donkfail1 I believe you are correct about the toilet, or at least a toilet flushing...
@@XanderWhat That's it!
@@OGBReacts Janet Leigh is the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis who is the star of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). John Carpenter cast Jamie Lee Curtis in the lead role because her mother Janet Leigh was in Psycho.
Probably one of the creepiest bits is he was having a conversation with himself using his ordinary voice and the moms
I love how the protagonist dies half-way the movie and the antagonist carries out the other half
I love that too!!
The argument could be made that Norman was the main character from the start.
@@jmiyagi12345 Or his mother?
She was always there, but sometimes he was ONLY her...
@@jmiyagi12345 Agreed. But the longer Hitchcock could keep you believing the mother was the killer, the more effective the final reveal would be.
Aside: your first name obviously gives you a special connection to the movie.
Not even half-way.
Fun fact: The actor Frank Albertson who plays Tom Cassidy (the guy who is giving his daughter the $40,000 for her wedding) is the same guy who plays Sam Wainwright ( the hee-haw guy) in "It's a Wonderful Life."
What a groundbreaking movie it was! Anthony Perkins deserved the Oscar for his performance.
Janet Leigh who played Marion is Jamie Lee Curtis mother. And Jamie Lee Curtis got her big break doing the Halloween movies.
And Halloween has many references to Psycho, as John Carpenter is a huge fan of that movie.
in Halloween H20, both Jamie Lee and Janet act in it... as an Easter Egg, they also included the car (that was pushed into the swamp) and a portion of the music from Psycho in it (H20) as well as Janet's character's name was Norma (another nod to Norman Bates)
@@williamwhitecage7988 They also were together in the 80's movie, "The Fog."
Doctor Loomis in "Halloween" is named after Sam Loomis here (Marion's boyfriend).
This was a lot of fun, I haven't seen anyone in my lifetime that wasn't spoiled on "Mother". Nice to have someone genuinely surprised as when it originally came out.
Really?? Wow. I'm so so happy I didn't get spoiled for it at some point!
My favorite line from Psycho (and the one that gives me chills every time I hear it) - "Who's that woman buried out in Green Lawn Cemetery?" A brilliantly-executed rhetorical red-herring!
The creepiest line to me was “She wouldn’t even harm a fly” along with the evil smile on Norman’s face.
Marion gets so many warnings that a life of crime is not for her. But changes her mind too late.
Later in life, Anthony Perkins did a few TV commercials where his mother would direct him from off stage..."YES...I told them that, mother"....
When Hitchcock was a young kid, he was locked in a police cell for a short time as a lesson on "this is what happens to naughty boys" ....
He never forgot that experience, and never trusted the police from that day forward
Ah yes... well known in Hitchcock's native Britain as the 'short, sharp, shock' to put naughty boys on the straight and narrow.
Unfortunately, for anyone who already has received psychological abuse (most children), it causes hatred of authority, all adults and it's fair share of psychoes.
@@stevetheduck1425 *Most* children receive psychological abuse?
That’s messed up.
Hitchcock was very obsessive about getting just the right sound for the sound of the stabbing, and experimented with all kinds of different fruits and vegetables to see which would be the most effective. He ended up going with a honeydew.
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I think it's amazing that in 1960 Alfred Hitchcock was able to make the prototypical slasher movie despite how uptight everyone was back then. There's is a lot of transgressive material in this movie. Norman peeping, the multiple views of the toilet, the protagonist who is a woman not only having illicit sex but also stealing thousands of dollars...it's like Hitchcock crammed every bit of triggering elements into this movie that he could get away with.
I liked what you said & your right. There is a book titled "it's only a bloody movie" it goes into detail regarding the film psycho & the issues & problems faced by Hitchcock in making the film. In Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Hitchcock in the film Hitchcock much was said about this & the obstacles he had to overcome.
"Psycho" may be the movie which transitioned Hollywood into it's next era.
@@sparky6086That, and “2001: A Space Odyssey” 8 years later.
It's always nice to see a reaction from someone who doesn't know the twists. I'd give anything to see how shocking this film was to audiences in 1960. The scariest part of this film to me has always been the last inner monologue by "mother"; the words combined with Norman's facial expressions get me every time.
Yeah me too I wish I was at that first screening
That scene and the one where the detective gets it scared me the most. Unfortunately, my mother warned me about the shower scene and how many people were scared to take showers afterwards. I didn’t get to see it until years after it came out.
I couldn't wait to see your reaction to this movie and it did not disappoint. Fun Fact: The woman at the beginning with the headache medicine is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter. She has a bigger role in Strangers on a Train.
So glad you enjoyed!!
Wow I didn't realise that was the same actress. Thanks
Yeah, that was Pat Hitchcock. She died at 93 just two months ago.
@@timcarr6401 I knew that was his daughter I just didn't know her from strangers on a train
Another great watch!
It's so much fun watching a "newbie" viewing a movie like PSYCHO for the first time! Thanks for a great Sunday morning!
Three months later... yes, and I've seen about 4 years of 'newbies' reacting to this film, and all are predictably shocked. Some guess but none 'know'... and so many claim, "Oh no! The main character's dead!" while forgetting the name of this film is not THE EMBEZZLER or WOMAN ON THE RUN. None of them mention 'psycho' as a title or reference point - Hitch's screenplay just takes us so deep into Marion's Tale, and suddenly that's over and all we have 'left' is Norman. And Mother. Arbogast.. I hope all of them have a chance to see film festival showings of this film. They usually occur in October.
Go back to the point where he says, "Mother is not herself, today." They give us all the clues... and we refuse to see them.
As I went back in and edited it down, these are things I noticed!
17:21 Only Hitchcock!!! Killing off your main character halfway through the movie was unheard of back then! Great reaction 🍿🔪
Making people go "WHAT?!" for 60 years... You would never make a movie like this now, the extended prologue explaining at the end feels weird as a modern viewer. But I get that explanation was totally necessary at the time, because audiences hadn't grown up with horror films about serial killers. I don't watch it often for fun, but I think that anyone interested in film needs to see it at least once, it is the OG Horror/Slasher from whence the entire genre grew. The guys that made Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween and such in the 70s 80s totally had their minds blown by this as teenagers.
Horror films nothing, audiences back then didn't grow up with mental illnesses being discussed at all. That explanation was about split personality and such.
If you think that the *split* was weird, check out the trailer sometime.
Also: only other bait-and-switch moments like that I can think of are the genre shift in From Dusk Til Dawn and the protag change-up in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
You mean monologue.
@@zammmerjammer actually i meant epilogue
CalciumChief is absolutely right. Back in 1960, people like Norman were called crazy, looney or nuts, and that was that. Psychiatry and psychology have come a long way since and the average person today is much better informed on such things.
Can you imagine the reaction of the audiences who saw this when it came out? When we were kids back in the 60s our parents wouldn't let us watch this on TV. I was about 10 in 1967 (yes I'm old!) I went to spend the weekend with my Grandma and the movie came on after something else we were watching. At the end when Lila goes down in the cellar and finds Mother it scared me so bad I couldn't sleep. Now that I'm older the movie still creeps me out in so many ways and I hide my eyes at the end even to this day!
I wish I was there to see that
"Red flag, red flag, this is not good, Woo!" *Clap*
lmao
Fun Fact: that brunette secretary in the beginning is Patricia Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock’s daughter. 😎
She died only a week ago
33:14 "Why she wouldn't even harm a fly." One of my absolute favorite movie moments of all time.
Sorry for the ridiculous number of comments. Psycho is one of my top 5 favorites of all time. Poster on the wall of my office and everything. :-) Really enjoyed this one.
So glad you enjoy the movie! No problem with the comments, I'm glad you enjoyed
“It’s a creepy house too, it’s not even like... a not creepy house.” 😂🤣❤️
This came out when my parents were newly married. My dad plays the violin. He would stand outside the bathroom while mom was showering and would play the "eh, eh, eh" part on the violin. Mom started locking the bathroom door.
🤣🤣🤣 Wow!
@@OGBReacts - if you end up watching The Omen I will tell you what he did to her for that.
Lmaaaaao this is epic
I love Alfred Hitchcocks movies. You should watch "vertigo" or "birds" or both. 😃
Don’t forget my favorite “Rear Window”.
A movie I wish I could watch again without any knowledge of the story and feel the surprises genuinely like you did. Wonderful reaction and glad you were able to be surprised by the twists.
Just imagine an audience reaction from the 60’s. This movie freaked out an entire generation. Classic Hitchcock.
Fun trivia: Marion (first girl) was played by Janet Leigh, who was one of the biggest box office names of her generation. She is also well known today as the mother of another of Hollywood's most famous horror actresses and A-lister, Jamie Lee Curtis. Janet is the original scream queen woth the single most famous movie scream and death scenes of all time and her legacy is the woman Hollywood dubbed The Scream Queen.
Never underestimate the power of an "old black and white movie". My mother told me she watched this in 1960 with my dad and she was petrified for days. Great reaction from you!
Thank you!!
Did he try to freak her out when she was in the shower? 😂
When this was first released, women were so terrified, they stopped taking showers and switched to baths.
Something similar happened when Jaws came out. A lot of people stopped going into the water. The ones that went in, like myself, had there head on a swivel and kept whipping around looking for shark fins.
Alfred Hitchcock got an angry letter from a parent after this movie, saying that their daughter wouldn't take baths after seeing Diabolique, and now she won't take showers after seeing Psycho. Hitchcock's reply letter: "Send her to the dry cleaners."
Director Alfred Hitchcock bought all of the books from every bookstore so that nobody could know the ending ahead of time. This movie was Anthony Perkins's first movie that Hitchcock casted because he thought he was perfect for the part. It was shot in black and white in order to hide the red color of the blood
Love all of this! Except, I thought he used chocolate syrup for the blood cause it looked better on camera? Lol
I believe the "blood" was actually chocolate syrup.
@@jowbloe3673 that's correct
It was mainly shot in black & white to save money. Hitchcock wanted to show that a good movie could be made, on a shoestring budget.
He also saved money by using the crew from his TV show which was almost a no-no at that time, because television was seen as the enemy by movie studios. They saw television as an existential threat to their industry.
The blood issue maybe was an additional rational for black & white, but it would have been done in black & white regardless of the blood.
Seems like I remember, that "Psycho" was produced for under $200,000?
Love that you had no idea about the ending. Back when this movie came out, the audience was asked not to disclose the ending to anyone, so others could be just as surprised. Great reaction!!
They also didn’t allow latecomers.
I love Hitchcock a lot, my fave of his is probably Shadow Of A Doubt or Strangers On A Train, some fantastically chilling scenes in both! Love that you're doing older movies :D p.s Anthony Perkins is a babe
Yeah those are two of my favourites as well.
@@garyclarke9685 Hear hear!
Anthony Perkins nailed this role. He had a subtle creepiness about him that's difficult to describe. I can't think of a single other actor who could have pulled off the role.
As great as Hitchcock was, "Psycho" might have been good, but without Anthony Perkins, it wouldn't have been legend!
Never saw a bad film with Perkins. "Pretty Poison" with Perkins and Tuesday Weld is one of my favorites.
Before that he was the handsome man in love stories (popular amongst the female audience). His agent advised him against taking on this part. A man who kills women dressed as his mother?! That would destroy his career!
@@haps2019 Which love stories? The only role I've seen Perkins in that was not about a character who was either somewhat sinister or weird was in "Friendly Persuasion".
@@andreaschmall5560 Well, perhaps not love stories per se, but at least he was the attractive love interest. Yes, these films exist!
@@andreaschmall5560 He starred as a basketball player in "Tall Story" which I think was a lightly romantic comedy. His co-star was Jane Fonda. ...Maybe the studio was trying to offset his mild mannered nature by having him play athletes? He also starred as a baseball player in "Fear Strikes Out", but it was a baseball player who had mental issues. These were both made before "Psycho".
Perkins acted along side Gary Cooper in a Civil War movie mentioned earlier, "Friendly Persuasion". Hollywood thought; it would be the passing of the torch from Cooper to Perkins, since they were both tall/handsome leading men. Not really exceptional in Hollywood, but Anthony Perkins being gay was an open secret even back then, and he did come across as a little effeminate, although audiences of the time may have just taken it as mild mannered or as an "aw shucks" attitude. Of course, Rock Hudson was gay, but he didn't seem effeminate, so it doesn't necessarily mean anything, but Rock Hudson's sexuality wasn't an open secret yet.
My cousin Sarah was a long time neighbor of Anthony Perkins from the early '60's though the early '90's in Chelsea in NYC. She told me, that he didn't hide, that he was gay, but he'd read somewhere a theory, that being gay was just an emotional immaturity, so he used it as an excuse to get married to a women in 1973. He stayed married until he died, after raising two sons. Sarah said, that he seemed to be a good father to his sons who were teenagers at the time she mentioned it to me. Perkins caught HIV at some point after his marriage, and died of AIDS in the 1992.
Of course, in the old days, being gay was supposed to be a mental defect. That, plus wanting a family combined with people naturally wanting to fit in with "normal" society to some extent. Those factors made a lot gay people in the old days, both men and women, get married. Back in Victorian times, men and woman both weren't supposed to enjoy sex anyway. If they didn't like it, they were just supposed to "close their eyes and think of England", so it took the being gay factor out of it! This attitude kind of stood until the mid '70's, then had a brief resurgence in the '80's, when AIDS got bad (At least, Elton John who'd "come out" years before, married a women in the eighties for a time).
...Sorry, I kind of got sidetracked. Anyhow, Anthony Perkins was initially supposed to be a Gary Cooperesque leading man, but ended up being a hybrid between a leading man and a character actor. Overall, he had a successful career and despite being somewhat typecast, was one of the first major actors to appreciate, that there were many out of work actors who would love to have been typecast, so after only a few years of grumbling about it, he embraced it and even ended up doing a sequel to "Psycho" over 20 years later.
There are two biopic films on Hitchcock. One goes behind the scenes on how the Birds were made with Toby Jones as Hitchcock. The other one goes behind the scenes on how this movie was made with Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock.
Good lord, I screamed out loud when you said “WHAAAAT?” And started cackling like a maniac, my cat was not happy
Omg!! 🤣🤣
I always tell people: Not a horror movie. Not a slasher. Hitchcock makes Suspense Dramas. (Then they watch it, and after it ends they hit me for lying.)
Fair! I would still put this under the horror category, since that category is so broad!
Agree, I wouldn't really classify this as horror.
Sometimes suspense drama is scarier than a monster popping out at you. Hitchcock could give you nightmares with nothing more than a suggestion. Of course Alien went for both. Lol.
I think, that "Psycho" is catagorized as a Thriller. Maybe it in a sub catagory, "Horror Thriller"?
@@jowbloe3673 You agreed with them but they said it _is_ a horror movie, lol.
Didn't even see that coming. That's why Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense.
First movie to feature a toilet flushing. 🚽
It's so gratifying when people don't expect the ending :D
I couldn't wait for the end, I knew you were going to lose it, Best laugh I had All year, you're reaction was just as I thought it would be,you didn't disappoint,looooved it
Yessss 🤣 Glad you liked it!! I had a lot of fun!
What a great reaction!! Love it!
The tv show, Bates Motel is based on Psycho. Freddie Highmore stars as Norman, who is now on The Good Doctor.
I cannot recommend it highly enough. Even though parts of Seasons 2 and 3 get a bit (eye-roll), it it 100% worth sticking through to the finale.
And Rhianna as Marion. It works better than you'd think.
@@NeuroticNomadic Absolutely! On the whole it was excellent. Great acting!
Also -- the more familiar you are with this movie, the more the show rewards you. Throw-away lines from Norman's conversation with Marion like the highway getting moved or the location of the diner... such good stuff.
That was SO fun! I’ve known this movie’s twists and turns for decades, so while I will always recognize its greatness, the joy of being surprised or scared by it is long gone. But getting to relive all that vicariously was awesome. Nice, nice job! 👍🏻
Thank you!! I’m so glad I didn’t know what was coming!
This movie ranked at #4 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo
Great reaction girl, I remember when I showed this to a friend, like 30 minutes into it he was like "he's the mother" :D Love that you had such a pure reaction to it, in this post-twist modern era where it's really hard to actually still surprise someone with this, you did the job perfectly! I so would have loved to see the audiences reaction back then.
So glad you enjoyed!! I was trying to figure out everything but never thought of him as the mother!
The line "She wouldn't hurt a fly." is also the last line of the book ('Psycho') by Robert Bloch on which this is based.
Very enjoyable reaction!
So glad you enjoyed!
"I LOVE your reaction the BEST because you LITERALLY didn't see the movie except for snipits here and there and didn't jump ahead of yourself while watching it like some reacters do
She does watch the whole thing an then edits it down
I LOVVVED your reaction to the mother twist 🤣❤🤣
Watching your reactions was a lot of fun! Thanks!
My mom saw it when it was new in theaters. She said Janet Leigh was a huge star, and she absolutely could not believe it when she was stabbed to death 40 minutes in! She said she thought, “If they killed off the main character halfway through, ANYTHING could happen now!”
Also, Norman Bates was based off of real-life psycho Ed Gein. Read up on him, if you dare. Sick, sick, sick, SICK dude.
Omg, so fun watching you younglings watch such old movie and losing your &$@? Great reaction, thank you
I really liked your reaction to Psycho. You were really sucked into it just like the millions of people in movie theaters across America seeing it for the first time. Can you imagine what it must've been like back in the day to see this in a crowded movie theater?
Glad you enjoyed!!
I feel as though this and Rosemary’s Baby (another 60’s thriller/horror I’ve watched on this channel) had slightly similar public reactions! AKA everybody freaked the hell out 🤣
It must take an old goat like me to recognize the "indent" in the bed as being normal for a feather bed. I don't think most people these days knows what a feather bed, with an honest-to-god feather tick, really is.....or how they sleep, especially one with lots of down in it. Gives old goats like me a chuckle.
Janet Leigh never took a shower again after this movie wrapped. She took baths instead.
Along with most of the women in the audience! Women were literally afraid to take showers for months after they saw "Psycho".
All time classic, watched this when I was like 10 and it scared the crap out of me, all the imagery of “mother” at the window freaked me out so bad I think because your imagination is so big when you’re a kid things like that can scare you 😂
Its such fun to watch young reactors who know nothing about this movie. They are shocked when Marion gets killed off so early & have their mind blown when they discover Norman is Mother. This was fun! My favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie is The Birds. Please add this to your list of movies to watch.
I love watching Psycho virgins when the shocking reveal makes its gruesome scene.
A slasher movie whose most terrifying, bonechilling scene is a man sitting quietly in a chair, thinking to himself in his mother's voice, and smiling at the camera.
Vera Miles is still with us at 92 years of age. She played Lila --the sister of Marion.
The guy who played the deputy sheriff was John McIntire. He was the second trial master of "Wagon Train" --one of the most popular tv series of the 1960s. McIntire's wife was Jeanette Nolan. She supplied the voice of 'Mother Bates.'
Luckily she’s still with us 2 years after this comment. I also loved her in Psycho II and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
The other secretary in the first scene is Hitchcock's daughter, Pat.
Yes it is, "The shower scene ". Probably the most popular scene in movie history 🤣.
Seeing you so confidently react, while I know how it ends, was super entertaining. Loved it! LMAO
Yesssss I'm glad you enjoyed!! Thanks for watching!
Somebody may have mentioned this already, but she doesn't blow her cover with the Phoenix/Ms. Crane thing. Her talk with Norman convinced her to go back and try to correct her mistake and make things right. She has a full character arc before she gets randomly killed
Hey Sam. Some facts about this movie. Alfred Hitchcock was told that he was crazy for making a movie where your Main Character is Killed in the first part of the movie. Well he proved them wrong with his genius writing and directing. THIS movie started the show times scheduling in the theater. You have to see the movie from the beginning. Before this movie the theaters just played movies on a loop. You would just buy a ticket and watch the movie from whatever point. May be in the middle or end etc. Then sit there and watch it loop over again and catch what you missed.
This is a favorite reaction of mine! Your reactions at the end were pretty much what I was thinking the first time I watched this movie . I really enjoyed this one very much. Thank you and I look forward to more .
Yessss so glad! Thanks for watching!
Well, the shower kept running, so a lot of the blood had already gone down the drain.
Congrats! You are the first reactor that didn't mention that this was a black and white movie, as if that somehow means you should lower your expectations.This was a shocking movie in its time, but more importantly it was the virtuoso movie-making that makes it stand the test of time.
People mention or make a fuss or even just say "oh this is black and white"
Whack. I don't mind it whatsoever!
One of the greatest films ever made.
Simply, one of the very best movies ever...
24:21 🤣 You knew it was coming and they still got you.
This is such a classic! It's my favorite Hitchcock film. Such great twists in this movie. I'm pretty positive that the lead character getting killed part way through had not been done in a movie before, so that threw audiences for a loop. The twist end is great as well. And the transition to mother's skeletal face was a great final touch. The direction, music, and acting are all top notch. Anthony Perkins gives an amazing performance in this. And you actually care about him a bit in the beginning. (before he starts getting creepy anyway.)
Agreed! Everything was perfect
Sadly, Marion Crane died in 1960 and was unable to watch the multitude of horror movies that came after...Had she that experience, , you are right...she would've left after meeting Norman.
Great Reaction! And well done for spotting the books! I haven't seen any other re-actors get the significance of the books. What sort of books have no title on the spine or the cover? I always wondered. That's what I like about Classic movies they can't show everything so things have hidden, layered meanings. I am reminded of the book shop in the equally awesome The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall. CCCP
I am amazed how no one notice the way Anthony Perkins( Norman) makes a quirky smile when he mentions: ..And the way he died.. When telling about the death of his step-dad😮.
After watching the movie and then remembering when he says how damp sheets smell creepy or something like that, has a new meaning.
Janet Leigh was by far the biggest star at the time of this movie, so to have her die midway through was a shocker.
What a masterpiece. Hitchcock is stunning and the king of suspense.
Awesome reaction for such a great movie! Hitchcock actually ran a marketing campaign to keep what happened "Psycho" from being spoiled and audiences respected that, in 1960, something that would be impossible to pull off now. I'm looking forward to more October reactions! This was a great opener for this month's reactions! :D
So glad you enjoyed!
Great reaction!
Real horror doesn't make you scared of monsters, the dark or ghosts. It makes you scared of other seemingly normal people.
That twist in the middle is unsettling. It kind of pulls the rug from under you and leaves you alone in the story, when the obvious protagonist is gone. It's a classic, but far from Hitchcock's best, in my opinion. Hope to see more now that you have had a few tastes.
“Leaves you alone in the story”. Great description!
Loved your reaction to this! The movie tricked me the exact same way the first time I saw it. Before watching the film, the only reference to it I was familiar with was an old DiGiorno Pizza commercial that showed the outside of the Bates Motel and had Norman and his mother arguing, with her scolding him for letting a pizza delivery person come to the property, and him explaining "It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno!". Then it showed him, as his mother, from about the same angle as the shot in the film where the detective was killed, but instead of attacking a person with the knife, he was slashing the pizza in half. The screen then faded to black, as the mother chuckled and said "Such a good boy!"
That movie is 60 years old,...... Masterpiece
You mentioned during your recap that you were, "...doing what I do...trying to predict what was going to happen."
An awful lot of people apparently watch movies this way and I have to say, I've never understood it nor have I ever done it.
To me, spending the whole movie trying to predict what's going to happen next would be like someone who is really good at verbal story-telling being constantly interrupted by someone else trying to finish every other sentence, getting some things right but mostly getting things all wrong.
I personally love the feeling of putting my trust completely in the hands of the storyteller. Riding a rollercoaster is WAY more fun to me if I'm not trying to steer it.
I did enjoy your reaction to this crazy-good movie, though.
I can understand that, but I also just enjoy doing that
I like trying to see what’s going to happen, and to me I find that more entertaining in a reaction video then being completely silent and just letting the movie run it’s course. I do this for reaction videos, but I’ll never do it as I’m actually watching a movie with other people haha. I like letting y’all know what’s on my mind, and so far people have enjoyed that too. Everybody is different though so I understand, and I get your point. That’s just how I am though.
I’m glad you enjoyed it nonetheless. Thanks for watching!
`It really just shifted gears...´ with the flick of a knife. Lol.
How delightful to find someone who doesn’t know Psycho and it’s twists! Your reaction was awesome! What I’d give to see this film for the very first time again. Because mine, and just about every ones reaction the first time they see this movie and are unfamiliar with “mother” 😂, is to be utterly blown away. Just like you were. Not many film makers can really pull off the “never saw it coming” technique with a wicked twist, even today. Hitchcock mastered it 60 years ago. Hitchcock was a master of suspense you see, but also a master of the “red herring” technique - a term for a purposely misleading element in a story to throw off the audience from seeing the actual plot or lead character, in order to add more suspense, shock, and a “never saw it coming” response when the truth is finally revealed. He begins the film masked as a crime thriller, then half way through eliminates who we thought the film was about and it’s plot line, only to reveal the ACTUAL plot of what’s ACTUALLY a horror film and psychological mind F$&@😂...one that builds the tension to a fever pitch, with brilliant camera work and directing, incredible music and unforgettable performances (Anthony Perkins and Janet Lee -Jamie Lee Curtis’s scream queen Mom- are tremendous). It’s simply a perfect film and was the first of its kind in many ways, groundbreaking and revolutionary for its time and genre. And continues to be so to this very day. It set a standard in the horror genre that has rarely been met since. Hitchcock made many incredible films, such as Vertigo, Dial M For Murder, Rebecca, Shadow Of A Doubt, The Birds, and North By Northwest. But My all time favorite of his films has to be Rear Window, with Jimmy Stewart and the exquisite Grace Kelly in very memorable performances. I watch it at least once a year I adore it so much. That film is a master class in voyeuristic film making, and utterly engrossing, filled with great characters, perfectly crafted dialogue, lots of claustrophobic suspense and thanks to the premise and set of circumstances, great, GREAT, tension. You’d love it. 👍
Thanks so much for the comment! Glad you enjoyed the video
Great reaction love how the twist wasn’t spoiled for you very genuine wtf moment lol
It really was! I’m so glad I had no idea
Sam, watching your reaction, you looked like a Looney Tunes character who freezes upon the realization that a piano is falling inexorably toward your noggin...completely stunned. I literally almost fell out of my wheelchair. Your face was a meme, this was your best reaction yet. Keep up the good work and I'll see you on Twitch next week for some Resident Evil: 2, peace.💙
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Oh my goodness 🤣
Glad you enjoyed so much!
I’ll see you soon!
15:47 With everything in this movie the one thing that Hitchcock had to fight to keep in the movie ... showing a toilet on camera. Honestly. There were such weird-ass rules about stuff like that for movies and television shows back then.
Out of all the reactions to Psycho that I've seen, you're the only one who said what I was waiting to hear: "They killed the main character halfway through the movie!" Great job! Please do Rear Window, I love that movie too.
Psycho was the first time a flushing toilet was shot in a film, fun fact of the day!
It was so much fun waiting for you to react to the surprises, and you didn’t disappoint. Thanks.
So glad you enjoyed!! I had a lot of fun with this one! Thanks for watching
7:49 The thing that Alfred Hitchcock was the most brilliant at was simply building suspense. You're starting to see that at this point of the movie and it will only continue. Nothing has happened yet, but our anticipation that something is about to happen just keeps growing and growing.
One of my favorite descriptions he ever gave of his theory of suspense was in a talk show interview. He described a group of people having a boring conversation around a table for 5 minutes. Then a bomb goes off and kills them. 5 minutes of boredom and 10 seconds of excitement. Not very effective. But take that exact same scenario and let the audience know that there's a bomb under the table. The dynamics of the scene change entirely. He lastly said that you must also never let the bomb go off. Something has to happen at the last second to stop it. He said that if you let the bomb go off, people don't enjoy the scene it just makes them angry.
Also, the other secretary in the office was his daughter (Patricia Hitchcock). And he made his regular cameo as the man standing on the street outside the office window.
I’m so glad your reaction was so genuinely like mine when I first saw Psycho all those years ago (I’m Avery young-at-heart 65 year old. LOL!). I never saw that ending coming. I love your channel and subscribed as soon as I found you. Thanks for all your hard work to make your channel so good. Thanks for reading.
Thank you so much!
Hitchcock did the horror in the viewer's head. He didn't need a lot of blood and gore.
I'm so glad this mostly didn't get spoiled for you, it's such a famous film. The only part I don't like is the detective 'falling' backwards down the stairs, so fake. The shower scene was best spoofed by Mel Brooks in his Hitchcock tribute film "High Anxiety". I'd wait until watching "The Birds" and "Vertigo" before watching that one, I think it's Brooks' best although it gets little recognition. It has several cast members from his other films: Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn and Cloris Leachman. Very well made.
The thing that bugs me most about this movie is that there’s no freaking way voices would carry from the house all the way down to the motel in the pouring down rain.
But, you know, I do love the movie.
The falling backwards down the stairs scene wasn't meant to seem real. It was meant to seem surreal. The same technique was used in a scene "Jaws", for instance.
But he's OK with modern films where fights defy gravity and people get kicked in the head and get right up.
@@sparky6086 What scene in Jaws was like that? I don’t recall.
@@MsAppassionata The one where Sheriff Brody (Roy Scheider) is sitting on a beach chair watching as a shark attack happens. The camera is on him to show his reaction and there is sort of a mismatched zoom of the background, like when the private detective (Martin Balsam) falls backward down the stairs in "Psycho".
I'm sure, that there is a term for this type of camera/shot technique/effect, I just don't know, what it is. It's surreal nature adds to the in frame character's own shock or disbelief, in what is currently happening.
Best! Reaction! Ever! This sort of reaction is what I live for when I watch reaction videos.
Thanks so much!! That twist was something else 😩
Very poor acting of a reaction
FYI, I think the reason she said she was going back to Phoenix and revealed her last name is because she realized she made a mistake taking the money and decided to return it. Obviously, she never got the chance.
Right right, she DID say that. She was actually going to make things right but nooope!
That was a great movie . . 60 years this has kept it alive . . never grows old
This was just delicious, seeing you freaking out with this classic 😊
Hitchcock Knew how to make movies. Even moments when nothing is really happening can be stressful. I love that. No special effects, no highspeed car chases, just great storytelling.
Hope you react to more of his movies.
I reacted to North by Northwest the other day! Will definitely do others!
@@OGBReacts Saw that one. That's why I was so happy to see you react to 'Psycho'.