Psycho
1960 | Horror | USA | Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Overview
Kill the star halfway through and cinema lost its innocence. Janet Leigh takes the wrong turn off the highway, Anthony Perkins redefines screen evil, and the shower scene, seventy eight setups and fifty two cuts, still courses through film schools. Bernard Herrmann shrieking strings. Hitchcock sold it as sleaze and directed it as opera. The birth of modern horror.
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