Budget
$806,947 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$32,000,000
Gross worldwide
$32,041,845
Budget
$806,947 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$32,000,000
Gross worldwide
$32,041,845
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By Kody 2022-04-24 07:01:01
In fact, I guessed at the beginning that Norman was the murderer, and his mother was not mentally ill, he was. When he killed, he dressed up as his mother. In fact, his mother was made into a mummy after being killed by him. There are many bird specimens in his room. The film has long hinted that he has this technique. Why can I guess, mainly because the actor's acting skills are so good, it can be seen at a glance that he is mentally ill.
Although the suspense is easy to crack, it is...
By Elvie 2022-04-23 07:01:01
"Psycho" was directed by Western suspense master Hitchcock, and opened the film through Marion and her boyfriend Sam. It tells that Sam needs to pay the alimony of his ex-wife because of debts, and he cannot be with Marion upright. Caused Marion to steal money. And through the fact that Marion was killed on the way to flee by car, the main content of the film is the story of Norman Baez suffering from schizophrenia and sub-personality murder.
First of all, from the...
By Zoie 2022-04-23 07:01:01
One, the normal world
The heroine and her boyfriend are in financial difficulties. The hero is still in debt.
Second, the call to adventure
The heroine wants to be with her boyfriend and is going to help her boyfriend repay the debt. The heroine has taken the company's money and wants to run away.
3. Refuse to call
Fourth, meet the mentor
By Jamey 2022-04-23 07:01:01
As a suspense film from 60 years ago, although it is black and white, it does not affect its texture at all. A small story, the plot is also very simple, there is not even a real protagonist, it is just an ordinary story, everything happens very naturally, the clips of the movie are a bit scary, and they advance with suspense, and the mystery is not solved until the end.
As a master of suspense, Hitchcock's films are all based on life, from the perspective of ordinary people, and tell...
By Avis 2022-04-23 07:01:01
The charm of black and white light and shadow
This film is one of Hitchcock's classic works. The teacher played one of them in the class, and we were deeply touched. This is an early horror thriller. In the film, the bathroom kills people, the schizophrenic patient smiles, and finally Stopping abruptly with a weird smile, thinking about the effect of fear, in the early film era, these plots and these shooting techniques were very good examples. It is the first time to seriously watch a black and white movie with a sense of...
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By Ocie 2023-09-17 01:09:13
The pen of God! There's a reason why movies from half a century ago can be so fascinating! The whole movie has been in a panic, and Anthony's acting skills are amazing! Hitchcock is Hitchcock enough to be placed on the first page of film history...
By Donavon 2023-09-02 15:55:14
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 33rd Academy Awards, he stole her body and even treated it like a living person. So he started thinking and speaking for her, giving her half his life so she could speak. Sometimes he might play two people in a conversation at the same time, other times, the mother takes the whole role. He was never a complete Norman, but he was often a complete mother. split...
By Calista 2023-08-19 00:38:31
It is indeed a textbook-like work. Many movies have been influenced by this film, but it is undeniable that from one story to another, this kind of control is not something ordinary movies...
By Palma 2023-07-21 22:03:37
The pioneering psychological horror...
By Kailyn 2023-07-11 13:36:57
It marked the end of the classic era of horror and the beginning of modern horror. The application of montage, mise-en-scene, rhythm, and sound is a textbook. In a bathroom murder scene, as many as 78 close-up and close-up shots of knives, human bodies, spray heads, bathtubs, etc. were assembled in 45 seconds, and the shots were switched quickly and dazzlingly, creating a thrilling visual impact. The process and the ending have always been unexpected, and Norman Bates has left people with...
Norman Bates: Well, a son is a poor substitute for a lover.
Marion Crane: Why don't you go away?
Norman Bates: What, to a private island like you?
Marion Crane: No, not like me.
Norman Bates: I couldn't do that. Who would look after her? The fire in her fireplace would go out. It would be cold and damp up there like a grave. If you love sombody, you wouldn't leave them even if they treat your badly. Do you understand? I don't hate my mother. I hate at what she's become. I hate her illness.
Dr. Fred Richmond: Like I said... the mother... Now to understand it the way I understood it, hearing it from the mother... that is, from the mother half of Norman's mind... you have to go back ten years, to the time when Norman murdered his mother and her lover. Now he was already dangerously disturbed, had been ever since his father died. His mother was a clinging, demanding woman, and for years the two of them lived as if there was no one else in the world. Then she met a man... and it seemed to Norman that she 'threw him over' for this man. Now that pushed him over the line and he killed 'em both. Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all... most unbearable to the son who commits it. So he had to erase the crime, at least in his own mind. He stole her corpse. A weighted coffin was buried. He hid the body in the fruit cellar. Even treated it to keep it as well as it would keep. And that still wasn't enough. She was there! But she was a corpse. So he began to think and speak for her, give her half his life, so to speak. At times he could be both personalities, carry on conversations. At other times, the mother half took over completely. Now he was never all Norman, but he was often only mother. And because he was so pathologically jealous of her, he assumed that she was jealous of him. Therefore, if he felt a strong attraction to any other woman, the mother side of him would go wild.
[Points finger at Lila Crane]
Dr. Fred Richmond: When he met your sister, he was touched by her... aroused by her. He wanted her. That set off the 'jealous mother' and 'mother killed the girl'! Now after the murder, Norman returned as if from a deep sleep. And like a dutiful son, covered up all traces of the crime he was convinced his mother had committed!
[first lines]
Sam Loomis: You never did eat your lunch, did you?
Marion Crane: [on the bed in her underwear] I better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.
Sam Loomis: Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the rest of the afternoon off? It's Friday anyway - and hot.
Marion Crane: What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?
Sam Loomis: Well, we could laze around here a while longer.
Marion Crane: Checking out time is 3 P.M. Hotels of this sort are interested in you when you come in, but when your time is up... oh Sam, I hate having to be with you in a place like this.
Sam Loomis: Married couples deliberately spend occasional night in a cheap hotels.
Marion Crane: When you're married you can do - a lot of things - deliberately.