Psycho 1960.

At the beginning of this movie, I was not too excited to watch it. It started out slow and it wasn’t anything I had predicted it to be. As the movie went on, I found myself more and more captivated and just waiting for something to happen. Scary movies are movies I don’t typically enjoy because I don’t like being startled so it was nice for the creepy music to play just before someone was killed. You always knew that Norman was going to attack someone when you heard the screech of the violins. This startled me at one point when the detective was walking up the stairs but it didn’t throughout the rest of the movie. The thing with Psycho is it would be nothing without the music. The music built up the suspense ‘til the point where you had your hands waiting to cover your eyes and listening for that familiar violin screech. If the music wasn’t in the movie watching Norman stab people would be quite comical because the suspense wouldn’t have been as built up.
The ending of the movie surprised me and allowed laughter to forget that Norman’s Mother was actually just a skeleton. I was almost relieved to see Norman jump from around the corner, dressed in his Mother’s dress with a wig that ends up falling off during the struggle between him and Sam. The laughter was much needed because the skeleton was one of the creepiest points in Psycho.
Psycho kept my attention the entire time and I really enjoyed it. Alfred Hitchcock did a wonderful job putting this thriller together. There is a ton of foreshadowing and the use of shadows to display personalities of certain characters. I can imagine being a person living in the 1960’s, going to see this movie, and leaving the theater scared. To people back then, Psycho was a classic thriller and could almost be real life. Nowadays, we have movies that are much creepier than Psycho but that comes with the advance in technology and the twisted plots people can come up with.