Psycho

Psycho

A new and altogether different screen excitement!

Rating

4.0 (1)

Release Date

6/22/1960

Runtime

109 mins

Overview

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$806,947

Revenue

$50,048,065

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A masterclass in psychological manipulation that makes you complicit in Marion's poor choices before pivoting into something far darker. Hitchcock turns a modest motel into a trap of violently clashing wills and fractured minds.

Mood

TenseDread-soakedUnsettlingParanoid

Themes

IdentityObsessionFamilyMortality

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Steady

Look

Black and whiteFormalist

Structure

Nonlinear

Heads up

Graphic violence

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

He got mommy issue's like me,the only difference is that he got problems with his mother(who is dead) while im just thirsty for goth woman.

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