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· Year: 1960
· Also known as: Wimpy
· Director: Alfred Hitchcock
· Writer: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch (novel)
· Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles
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Part of the Psycho series.
· Followed by Psycho II, Psycho III, and Psycho IV: The Beginning. · The series spun off into a television pilot, named Bates Motel, in 1987.
· A controversial almost shot-for-shot remake was released in 1998. · Based on the novel by Robert Bloch.
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Amazon.com
· DVD: The Best of Hitchcock 1 · DVD: The Alfred Hitchcock Collection · VHS: The Best of Hitchcock 1 · VHS: The Hitchcock Collection · VHS: Essential Hitchcock · CD: Essential Alfred Hitchcock Amazon.co.uk
· DVD: The Hitchcock Collection Amazon.de
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Quiet secretary Marion Crane shows she's more complicated than she seems when she steals $40,000 from her boss and hits the road. Exhaustion--and a fierce rainstorm--force her to stop at the secluded Bates Motel, where she soon discovers the owner has a few secrets of his own.
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#15
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The most artful of the slasher movies, and one of the best works of one of cinema's best directors. Psycho's scares may not hold up well today, nor may its once-surprising ending (who by now doesn't know the identity of the murderer), but the movie is so thick with atmosphere, characterization, subtext, and symbolism that the fact that some of its more obvious aspects have become timeworn doesn't matter. The story's many examples of duality and Hitchcock's intricate mise en scene still provide rich food for thought, and Anthony Perkins' portrayal of Norman Bates is one the best portrayal of a psychotic killer to date.
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I hate to give a bad review, but this movie is insanely overrated. It goes blah, blah, blah . . . ooh a death scene . . . blah, blah, blah . . . [spoiler removed]. Then you sit back and think, "Yee-ha, I just wasted two hours of my life with this movie when I could have just heard the ending from somebody else." This movie sucks!
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