Friday, May 1, 2009

Psycho(1960)


Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Produced by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Music by: Bernard Hermann
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
Rating:*
“A boy's best friend is his mother”
This quote resumes what the movie is about. I didn’t like this movie is horrible and I will tell you why, firstable everybody talks about the shower scene and the amazing shower scene, is the worst and most horrible suspense scene I’ve ever seen it looks so fake that instead of getting thrill you laugh, also at the beginning the movie has a whole different story and it isn’t connected with the actual one in any way. Also is kind of disgusting to keep your death mother in your house anyways..
The movie stars with Marion and her lover talking about getting married in Phoenix, Marion doesn’t like her situation, job or life so she steals 40 thousand dollars from her boss and start driving to California where her lover lives; while going out of the city she sees her boss walking in the street and he sees her and realizes something is wrong with her because she said she was sick. While she is driving you can hear all kinds of creepy music making it a big deal when it isn’t really. Then the director tries to trick us leading you to think the story is about something different such as a police man always following her but then he disappears and you never see him again. After a long way and after traveling a lot one night she stays in a motel because she is tired, that’s when she meets Norman Bates a really creepy guy that seems very shy but he has psychological issues, kind of a double personality. After he gives her a room she starts taking a shower and then Norman’s double personality dressed as a woman kills her. His other personalities are Norman’s mom, but she is dead. Norman seems kind of crazy because of her mother’s dead years ago, but he kept his moms body in his house by the motel. After he kills Marion he throws her car and body into a swamp. After people back in phoenix find out that she is missing her sister hires an investigator to find her, in a magic an awesome way the investigator gets to the motel 100 times faster than Marion did and in the same way he gets back to phoenix to one more time as in star wars speed of light spacecraft he gets back to the motel the same day, when he doesn’t find anyone in the motel he goes into Norman’s house an gets killed by Norman as her mom in a very dramatic way it’s a very touching scene haha.
Marion’s sister and lover then go to the motel to find out what happened with the investigator and Marion, after talking to Norman they think there’s something wrong so Marion’s sister goes into Normans house to look for his mother only to find her dead body. She screams so hard that Norman hears she so he goes and tries to kill her but the other guy comes and saves her in a very awesome and realistic scene. They take Norman to psychiatrist and they find out about the personalities and find out that the investigator and marion are dead.
As I told you is a very bad movie with the worst special effects I’ve ever seen the plot and story are bad too so do not watch it you will waste an hour and fifty minutes of your life. Bye

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