PSYCHO

Psycho

Psycho is a 1960 American horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Janet Leigh.


Phoneix worker Marion Crane ( Leigh ) is fed up of life, she wants to meet and be with her lover Sam (Gavin ) but they cannot get married due to lack of money. 
One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer, this seemed as the oppertunity for her to take the money and start a new life she has always wanted. So she heads towards Sam's work place with the money on her. During the long and tiring drive she got caught in a storm so she gets off the main highway and pulls into 'The Bates Motel'. The owner is a quiet young man called Norman Bates (Perkins)  who is dominated by his mother...

Release date: June 16, 1960 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay: Joseph Stefano Cinematography: John Russel

Famous Shower Scene

The most famous scene featured in psycho is the shower scene, notorious for its screams and music. It begins with Marian undressing and showering as normal. The use of a see-through shower curtain enables you to see Marian, unaware that audience can see a dark figure creeping up towards the shower. The curtain is suddenly whipped open to reveal the mysterious, shadowed figure holding up a knife. The famous psycho music and scream from the victim is heard, and the killer stabs her a number of times before quickly making their exit. There is a high-angle shot, indicating vulnerability and helplessness, of Marian, and the blood in the shower. She clenches her hands in pain, and then the famous and extraordinarily dramatic image of Marian, stabbed to death, sliding down the wall. She reaches for the shower curtain, which brakes and she falls to the floor dead. There is a big close-up of Marians opened, startled, dead eye, which zooms out to reveal her lifeless face flattened on the floor.

north by northwest

North by Northwest (1959)

(Roger Thornhill - Cary Grant)

A hapless New York advertising executive Roger Thornill is kidnapped and mistaken for a government agent by a goup of foreign spies and is pursed across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

Thornhill escapes, but inorder to clear himself of a murder' that is believed he commited he follows Kaplan(government agent) to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, throughout Thornhills journey starting with the train and till the very end he is helped  by a beautiful blonde Eve Kendel 

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