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A kajillion years later, that final smile Anthony Perkins has still gives me the CHILLS!!!
Especially when a skull is superimposed over his face.
Wouldn't hurt a fly.
It really is one of the truly great performances..
Yes, me too. I also love how for a short moment, you can see a skull behind his face in that shot.
SAME!!!!!! 👀😳
My grandparents saw this in the theater when they were dating, and my grandmother still tells the story of how it was the only time she ever heard my grandfather scream. 😆
The audacity of killing off the main character half way through and then manipulating us to begin to root for who turned out to be her killer, was an incredible move for any filmmaker. Alfred Hitchcock had no equal!
Also, the shower scene is so well known that you expect it. It's Martin Balsam's staircase stabbing that catches people off guard!
Yes, bricky63b is correct: The movie tricks you into thinking that Marion is the main character. In reality, Marion isn't the main character - Norman is.
Hitchcock is known for his shocking twists lol.
I think at the time Psycho was released- this was the first film that did such a thing. Killed off the main character mid film.
@@bricky63b Norman Bates was the main character but the original posters for the film mostly featured Janet Leigh - another trick Hitchcock used to make the audience think it was gonna be her story thus increasing the shock of her murder.
Always thought of Norman as the main character, but it was so different back then to kill off a big Stars's character. You expected to see her throughout the movie.
Did you notice the superimposed image of Norman's mother's skull as he''s facing the camera.... the final shot as it dissolves to the car being pulled out of the mud? Brilliant.
My mom saw Psycho at the theater in 1960 - decades before I was born - by herself. She said it scared her (and everyone in the audience) so badly that she didn't take a shower for a year. She only took baths. After I was born and watched Jaws way too young, I was afraid to take baths so I only took showers.
My mom wouldn’t let us watch this, Jaws, The Exorcist, etc., growing up in the 70s. I’m very sensitive to this kind of stuff now. Gulp!
I grew up in Hyannis, Massachusetts, which is a beach town on Cape Cod. I was born in 1966 and I grew up swimming in the ocean, pretty much daily in the summer. I was aware of sharks, but they stayed far out in the ocean and no one was the slightest bit worried swimming at the beach. I never saw a shark or knew anyone who did. Attacks were so rare that it would’ve been like having a UFO land at your house. My family would often go to the islands of Martha’s Vineyard or Block Island to swim and go to restaurants and have fun, it was easy and fast to get there on a ferry. In 1974 when I was 8 it was all over the local news that a movie was being filmed on Martha’s Vineyard about a shark, but the studio kept the plot secret. In June of 1975 “Jaws” came out in movie theaters and it was a HUGE blockbuster hit, my parents took my brother and I to see it at a drive-in movie theater, and I was absolutely terrified. Not only did I refuse to swim in the ocean the rest of the summer (I did still go to the beach almost daily), but for years I was terrified every time I went in the ocean. And I wasn’t the only one: usually the beaches on Cape Cod are packed in the summer, but that summer of ‘75 it seemed like the crowds were half of what they were the previous years, and not nearly that many people were going in the water. For the rest of the 70’s sharks were on everyone’s minds.
In the past 10 years shark sightings around Cape Cod and the islands have increased tremendously. The last 3 summers they had to close several beaches because Great White sharks were seen swimming near shore.
My mom saw this in 1960 and never took another shower again for the rest of her life. Baths only until the day she died. 55 years. I just cannot imagine anything that would scare me that much, but I guess it was another time. I saw "Jaws" at the shore and went in swimming the next day. Everybody's different. But, it's hard to go wrong with a Hitchcock film. Most are classics.
@@Mike-rk8px It's difficult to convey to people who weren't around to see it just how gigantic Jaws was. Just huge. And, surprisingly, it was actually a beautifully acted, wonderfully written and directed fantastic film. That's a rarity.
@@Mike-rk8px So, basically, "Jaws" became a self-fulfilling prophecy. It really scared the bejuju out us kids too, despite us living in the lower midwest--I never got visit a true beach until just before I got married. And I refuse to go in water deeper than I can see through, LOL. That is the mark of a true great movie, that it stays in people's psyche for so long.
It’s a 63 year old movie and it still holds up. Still the gold standard of what a horror film should aspire to!
Perfect casting. Perfect musical score. Perfect direction. Perfect cinematography. Perfect acting. Perfect movie.
If you rewatch that scene you will understand that the question was why did Norman dress in a woman's clothes? It was never linked to the reason he committed murder. Norman dressed like his mother in her clothes to complete the self-illusion. Similar to what a transvestite does but with a different self-motivation.@@imbwildrd3693
@@imbwildrd3693 Norman was never a transvestite, he was never allowed to develop a personality of his own his mother never allowed it, he grew up "merged" into her, "happy" is something he certainly never was.
I would agree, the exposition dump in the end can be cut. But most people in 1960 probably needed it. Still a great movie.
Such a classic.
TRIVIA: The character of Marion Crane, who dies in the shower, was played by Janet Leigh. Janet is the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis, who later starred in Halloween. It's perfect, because Psycho is the original slasher horror movie, and nearly 20 years later, Halloween was the horror movie that launched the slasher movie craze of the 80s.
Both mother and daughter were in a movie together called The Fog directed by John Carpenter, I'd recommend the watch.
@@indiajohnsonand Janet appears in Halloween H20.
This is such a classic. I love watching you two reacting to scary movies. Ar the beginning of this reaction video, BJ mentioned that he hadn't seen any horror movie older than 1978's Halloween (and none in black & white. If you haven't done it already, you must react to "Night of the Living Dead." I believe that movie is from 1968 and is another classic.
And both Psycho and Halloween had characters called Sam Loomis.
@@samhain1894and if Sam in the new Scream movies took her fathers name, her name would be Sam Loomis
Oh boy, I saw this movie in a high school class I took senior year called "Film as Literature". Completely changed how I looked at movies and what I look for when I want to watch a movie. Destroyed any and all bias I had against black & white movies.
I had a great film study class in senior year as well. Learned a lot about the evolution of the camera techniques that are used to create art. There are some really good producers on You Tube who have content about contemporary movies and scene design. Check out Every Frame a Painting channel
good to hear. with 'Psycho' I think the black & white works really well. it's a crisp sharp print and matches the music - composer Bernard Herrman used strings only, no wind or percussion instruments - very effective. a landmark film.
Did you happen to have this class in a coastline CT high school?
@@jopp3786 no i didn't, i've just been a fan of the film and did some research on it.
@@haintedhouse2990 Sorry, that question was for @IfYouSeekCaveman -- YT wasn't letting me reply directly to their post and I thought it would be clear my comment was a reply to them since I was referencing a class like they had mentioned.
"She wouldn't even harm a fly". 😂😂 I love this movie and that ending.
The fact that she thinks she will come across inecent
Me too
Every time I see the episode of South Park, City Sushi, the end always reminds me to watch Psycho!!! He wouldn't hurt a fry....
A lot of the old black-and-white movies are so much better than the new ones. The writing is so good. They were just coming out of being radio shows where they really had to paint a picture in your mind with the writing in it transferred really well to the movies. I hope the two of you will watch more of these for us.😊
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead 1968
Interesting that you mention black and white movies. I'll be watching 10 horror movies made during the silent film era in the first 3 weeks of this month and yesterday I saw "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" which film critic Roger Ebert called "arguably the first true horror movie." Made in 1920, it's a mind numbing experience. The set design and art direction has walls that are off kilter; not a single straight line is seen. The acting is incredible with Werner Krauss as the doctor and the sonnambulist (sleep walker) is played by Conrad Veidt who was 23 at the time and is best know as Major Strasser in "Casablanca." The film has been restored including the color tints suggested for scenes by the director. You can't keep your eyes off the movie and it has a plot twist at the end much like what M. Night Shyamalan is best known for.
@@washo2222 That's very interesting, the making of the set so that no straight lines exist. I bet that caused viewers to experience a sense of being off-balance, a continual sense of unease but not knowing what is causing it. Thank you for sharing that, it's fascinating.
Agree ! I grew up on old classics and newer films just don’t compare
The Birds used to scare the crap outta me. 🤣 Hitchcock is my favorite director…. Oh I still don’t enjoy being around birds lol
The shower scene was traumatic for Janet Liegh, so much so this is what she said in an interview:
I stopped taking showers and I only take baths,” said Leigh in response to creating the movie's infamous scene. “And when I'm someplace where I can only take a bath, I make sure the doors and windows of the house are locked. I also leave the bathroom door open and shower curtain open.
Anthony Perkins played that role too good as Norman Bates, Janet Leigh carried that fear from taking showers up until her death. RIP Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins.
Yeha!!! It's Horrortober!!! This movie is iconic, classic, a MUST! Never judge a movie by age. You will miss a gem. Another example, The Birds.
AGREE 150% , love to see them react to The Birds or Rear Window!!
@@kenpaden - love Rear Window! It is older than Psycho, but in Color! And,…As a kid, Birds scared the crap out of me!
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead 1968. You don't need a big budget to make a great movie. This one is a classic.
@@logik200 - and another black and white gem!
The Birds is also in color. I saw it as a child and it scared the living crap out of me!!!
You mentioned how characters exited their vehicles on the right side. That was the fifties. The seats were the bench type and a center console didn't exist so it was really easy to slide from one side to the other. I took my driver training in 1969 and even then, the training films encouraged us to exit on the right for safety.
The main character besides Norman Bates is a blonde female. She was played by actress Janet Leigh the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis from Halloween fame, The Fog, Prom Night. True Lies and several other 1980's movies. The FOG (1980) was directed by John Carpenter too. He also did the music like he did for Halloween. Jamie Lee curtis father was Tony Curtis too. Another big star of the 1950's and early to mid 60's. Both Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis are both in The Fog together too. But don't have a scene together in the movie.
Damn ! I should have read before I typed ! Lol
Jamie Lee curtis a freak
@@mrkwrbl A large number of subscribers wanted them to know that Janet lee is Jamie Lee Curtis mom! Ok ? Lol
However , I want them watch Rear window , which I’m convinced Asia and Bj will both love !
Then they could watch the Netflix movie similarly done too . Can’t remember the name . But it was good .
@@dawnyoung2294 yo sorry - I meant that she is a freak. I'll edit my previous comment from "Jamie Lee curtis freak" to "Jamie Lee curtis a freak"
You are great
@@mrkwrbl lol . That’s ok don’t worry about it , I am a bit of a Jamie Lee Curtis freak , lol . She’s legit royalty you know .
I thought it was funny that so many of us told who her parents are . I noticed someone else took film class . I did too .
I love these videos . My favorite is sixth sense . I just know they’ll love rear window . Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly I m pretty sure is the female lead .
So rare to find a couple that has not seen, nor knows anything about Psycho. Really fun to watch this reaction-so fresh and innocent. I was 6-years old when this came out so didn’t see the film until much older. By then everyone knew something about Psycho, whether they’d seen it or not. You guys let me see what the experience was like for those first viewers in 1960. Your reactions were like a chapter of history.
I was five years old when Psycho was released. But I remember my Grandmother babysitting me and the look on my parents faces went they came to pick me up after watching the movie.
The first time I saw “Psycho” I was 12 and left alone at my grandparents big house on a farm in Maine with no neighbors around for 2 miles. It was raining and thundering and I was watching tv at night and read in TV guide that “Psycho” would be on at 9pm. Watching it alone and very isolated on a stormy night as a shy 12 year old was NOT a good idea. It didn’t help that the house was built in 1834 and had lots of creepy sounds and strange happenings to begin with, but I’d heard the movie was a “classic” and “excellent” so I had to see it. And no, I didn’t take a shower until the next day when my family returned....and even then I locked the bathroom door. The house also had two long staircases, and I was terrified that someone would run out when I got the top and stab me to death.
That reaction from Asia when the detective on the stairs is attacked is the best thing I've ever seen in a long, long time. From 22:19 to 22:22 I see 3 seconds of pure astonishment mixed with fear, afterwards Asia laughs when she is psychologically regrouping from the shock of the scene. Thank you for sharing your reactions with us.
Glad you guys are doing older movies, dont let the black and white issue turn you off. After a few minute you wont even notice it because you will be absorbed in the great writing and great characters. Rear Window is also a classic Hitchcock film , starring two of the greatest movie stars of all time, Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly.
i think the black & white adds to the film - the isolated characters and the stark locations (a run-down motel) are more effective combined with the strings-only music in conveying the creepiness of the story. Hitchcock hit the mark with this landmark film.
thanks for your thoughtful reply!
And Rear Window is in glorious color!
We didn't have colour TV here in Oz until 1974,' so my generation was used to B&W
as a member of that generation, I understand that all too well
It’s amazing that this movie shocked people in 1960 but it’s become so old that new generations are watching it without knowing the twist, so it’s like it’s fresh again.
Bates Motel is a great TV show that follows teenage Norman and his Mother opening the motel. Psycho 2 and 3 are also worthwhile, with 2 being a cult classic on its own.
I was 17 years old when I saw this in a theater. The audience's reaction to Arbogast getting stabbed was shocking. Imagine a theater full of people reacting the way you did.
Love the way the scene of him falling back, down the stairs is genius.
It's hard to imagine such reactions today. We are too jaded.
I was lucky enough to see Psycho in the cinema in Leicester Square in London a while back. I can assure you, it's ten times more scary on the big screen with a large sound system. I can imagine that it really scared audiences on its release.
A nice little fact about Bernard Hermann's music is that the musical notation of the string parts for the shower scene actually looks like a bunch of slashes down the score! Another thing I love about that music is when she's lying in the bath at the end the music sounds like great big heaving gasps for a final breath. So visceral!
$40,000 in 1960 was worth close to $415,000! Her boss and that rich dude were crazy to trust ANYONE with that amount of money.
😱
Right. My father bought a 3-family house with 3 big apartments in 1958 for $20k in the New York City market. In a market like Arizona $40k would have bought a huge mansion.
I know right, my grandfather sold his house, and 3 acres of land for 3000 dollars in 1959
Especially a woman.
@@johnclawed Shoot...my grandfather bought a 3 level, 3 bedroom house in a Washington DC suburb - Woodbridge, VA in 1964 for around 14k!! Was appraised in mid-2000's for around 500k!
The parlor scene is one of the best written scenes ever. Your perception of each character completely flips from the beginning of the scene to the end.
It's ironic you two mentioned the movie Halloween from 1978 before watching this movie. The director from Halloween (John Carpenter) was so inspired by the movie Psycho, he'd used the one of the cast members names ( Sam Loomis) If you could remember Sam Loomis in Halloween was Michael Myers' psychiatrist that never wanted him to be released from the sanitarium. Jamie Lee Curtis would be casted as the part of Laurie whose mother is Janet Leigh, the woman who will forever be known in the famous shower scene in Psycho. Rumor has it since Psycho, Janet Leigh never took showers again.
And then Wes Craven was influenced by John Carpenter and named one of his characters Billy Loomis. Billy had a daughter named Samantha (Sam). But Sam’s surname isn’t Loomis, it’s Carpenter. 😉
I really never thought that Norman opened the window to deliberately let Marian hear the fight with “Mother”. You have to see it from Norman’s point of view that he really believed that the “mother” half of his mind was a real person, he suppressed the memory of her death and convinced himself of her being alive because he couldn’t face life without her dominating him.
My mom saw this in the theater when it first came out and she said when Norman’s mother turned around in the chair everyone in the theater screamed and jumped!!!
Sshhhhh, don't give anything away! Some people haven't seen this movie yet!
@@SweetThingAll they said was that the mother turned in the chair, they didn't give away the aftermath of it
Fun comments! Yeah Busta Rhymes sampled part of the driving/Main Title music by master composer Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, Fahrenheit 451, Taxi Driver !)
You guys should now watch “Arsenic and Old Lace” from 1944. It is a black/dark comedy. You both will like it. It takes place in Brooklyn around Halloween.
Yes please do ! Arsenic and Old Lace is such a good movie. You two would be laughing from start to finish !
One the top movies ever to me. Have a bad day or bad mood that movie fixes it ) The story is so good but Cary Grant in a comedy priceless...
Arsenic & Old Lace is amazing.
Yes! Asia's reaction would be hilarious!!!
Cars back then had bench seats. People almost always slid across, when they could, to avoid traffic or not need to walk all the way around the car.
I saw this movie when it first came out. At the drive-in with my mother and father and 2 younger sisters. Hitchcock is great. You have to check out his other films too. Vertigo, Rear Window, North by Northwest. By the way a great Halloween movie is "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Cary Grant. (1944).
The Birds was another good Alfred Hitchcock movie.
Such an incredible movie. The climax in the fruit cellar has to be one of the creepiest scenarios ever in film.
I am so glad you two enjoyed the movie. Several things, first I want to thank you for concentrating on the movie and not trying to figure things out like Norman's weird conversation about his mother (Alfred Hitchcock was leaving little crumbs of information throughout the movie). Second Alfred Hitchcock was standing outside of Marion's job when she entered the office. Third, the ground breaking camera angles and lighting made you believe you saw his living mother until the end (he preserved her like the birds in that room). Finally, I believe the look from the private investigator (for me) suggested he was shocked as he realized it was Norman dressed like his mother while being assaulted and eventually murdered.
Vertigo (1958) is another great movie by the same director, Alfred Hitchcock. It was shot in color, and it's also super suspenseful like Psycho. Lots of crazy plot twists too. Some movie critics rank Vertigo as the greatest or most influential movie of all time!
Love this movie. Fun fact, the woman lead actress is also Jamie Lee Curtis's mother.
Yes, the sister in HALLOWEEN!
Everyone knows that.
When I was 8, my dad was on a business trip and my mom showed me this movie. For a few months, I sort of avoided her :)
Don't miss "The Bad Seed" , the original from 1956. No one is reacting to it. I doubt that anyone who's seen it has ever forgotten it.
Ah, yes, young Rhoda is such a scamp!
The lifetime film is good as well.
One of my favorites!
i don't understand why that film is so ignored and neglected. it's really terrifying.
Answer: before the days of bucket seats there were bench seats so you could just slide over.
People who lived in big cities would get out on the passenger side so they wouldn't get run over by a car passing on the driver's side. It was safer.
There is a reason why Alfred Hitchcock was called "the master of suspense".
And this movie "Psycho" he directed is very good proof of that.
As a hardcore Scary Movie fan, it make me happy to see other people react and wacht Hitchcock classic films.
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And he also invented at least 5 camera tricks that are now standard in most films. His vision of cinematography was every bit as legendary as his writing..
@@joshythehand2960 Agree, is some of the reason why he was call a true film genius.
Most cars back then had a bench seat so it was easier to just slide across rather than get out and walk all the way around.
And plastic seat covers. Boy did they get hot!
The Master of Suspense aka Alfred Hitchcock showed that you don't need blood slashing gore to scare you.
The scariest things are created in your own mind!
And Hitchcock proved it every time.
38:45 BJ is correct about Busta Rhymes sampling Bernard Herrmann’s iconic score for this film, in his 1998 song, "Gimme Some More.”
As to why they exit on the passenger's side: Back then the front seat was a bench seat with no obstructions (the gear shift was on the steering column), so it was easy to just slide across from one end to the other. Some people would do that in order to not have to step into traffic.
Quite right. In this case, it was better for Marion to exit closer to the awning to avoid the rain and for Arbogast to avoid gravel and perhaps puddles.
I’ve commented on this very thing before regarding this film, and I theorized it might have something to do with the film crew being in the way of Arbogast getting out on the driver’s side. However I’ve seen lots of older TV shows where they did this and it always bugged me. My thought back then was maybe the shows’ directors didn’t want to take the time to have the actor walk around the car, BUT IT STILL LOOKS WEIRD!
Quite right. Back then, not that many cars had bucket seats separated by a console. Most had that big smooth bench seat one could easily slide across.
It was a safety issue that was promoted in the early 60's. Movies of the time just went along with it to promote safety. The idea was to avoid stepping out into traffic. It never caught on.
Cars were also considerably larger. My dads hometown had narrow streets so it was dangerous getting out on the drivers side. I drove that 62 ford until a gasket was all that was left of it.
It doesn’t get much more classic in the slasher genre than Psycho. I love this movie. Anthony Perkins’ performance is perfection.
Can’t go wrong with an Alfred Hitchcock film. He was a master at symbolism. Did y’all catch Marion’s underwear color change? When we see her in the hotel room with Sam her underwear is white (symbol of good), but after she steals the money notice in her apartment as she’s dressing her underwear is black - symbol of bad. Watch Hitchcock’s The Birds next. I still have a fear of birds after watching that movie when I was a kid 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛😂.
you're the only one i've seen that has caught that!
Hmmm never thought about it like that.... so black is evil huh? Careful
Another thing is the obsession with stuffed birds because in old fashioned slang bird= girl/ young woman
@@fkaiba94careful indeed, but this movie is from a different era 👍🏾.
Rear Window is also good and fun : )
Oh man, your faces when the mother was found and Norman was exposed were PRICELESS!! You are the best a reaction videos. Love you guys!
THIS IS IN MY TOP 10 OF ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES!! SO ICONIC TO THIS DAY! You gotta check out the Bates Motel Series as well!! THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THIS CLASSIC
I was taking a bite of peanut butter when she said, “But y’all need to get the SWAT team out there!”
I nearly choked to death. You two are hilarious.
Something to remember about old movies. If we are still talking about them and recommending them all these decades later, they are at least worth seeing and probably great.
This movie has been criticized over the years for misrepresenting DID or pushing the idea that mentally ill people are violent, but that was never the point. There's a difference between having DID (multiple personalities as a defense mechanism for childhood trauma) and having such an unhealthy obsessive parent-child relationship that you can't exist without them so you create them in your head. That CAN happen and it's very rare. It's not a mental illness that just happens, it was a snowball effect of many previous dysfunctions in this guy's life.
And after Psycho, when you think the nightmare is over, Master Hitchcock releases The Birds (1963) 😍 And, by the way, I did LOVE your reactions to this movie, guys! 💯
Love from Brazil! ✌️
This was maybe the most PERFECT reaction video I've ever seen - reacting to a perfect movie - there's something adorable about the fact you didn't know anything about this film - this was a rare chance for us to imagine what audiences must have felt like when this first came out - if you liked this so much, then you'll like all of Hitchcock's films, because he loves playing games w the audience - if you want to try other classic films, try Maltese Falcon, Metropolis (Moroder version), Sunrise 1927, Bride of Frankenstein, Gun Crazy, M, Pinocchio, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - re your question about Hitchcock, he always appears for a split second in his films, walking thru the background - based on your reaction here I think you'd really like Rear Window and Strangers on a Train -
Watching Asia jump when Mother sprints out of the bedroom was AMAZING 🤣
Rear Window is SO GOOD!!!
Fun fact.... in black and white films, they often need to use different things in order for them to show up correctly. They found blood didn't look right, so they used chocolate pudding here.
Thanks for sharing that...I love it that you knew that.
Bernard Herrmann soundtrack is the bomb. Great reaction guys!
I love his soundtrack and would love to have one of his songs as my ringtone
Great reaction! My favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies are The Birds, Rear Window and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). All great suspenseful thrillers!
Found out that last year's showing of this movie still cost some youngsters some sleep. Hitchcock delivers decades later. Enjoy, guys!
Oh yes!! So, glad y'all chose to tap in to this movie and react to it. This is one of Alfred Hitchcock s well known movies. I haven't seen this movie in yrs, so it's awesome to watch y'all's reaction to it. My wife and I should watch this movie again. Per usual great reaction and sending y'all positive vibes!
This is a masterpiece of a movie. It was also a big deal to kill off Janet Leigh so early in the film. She was a big star at the time. People were shocked by it. This movie is also based loosely on the life of the serial killer Ed Gein. Still a great movie for Oct!
I attended a talk by screenwriter Joseph Stefano. He said Hitchcock was losing interest in the project until Stefano got the idea of killing he leading lady at the end of Act I. Then Hitchcock got excited again. Stefano said they had to be careful about the casting of the role because if it had been too big a star the viewers would have disbelieved it and thought it was a trick. Janet Leigh was at the right level of stardom to make it believable.
If you watch interviews with Janet Leigh. She always said that after filming the shower scene, she never took showers anymore, only bathes. I love the older movies. Both color & B & W. Don't watch many newer movies of today. It's mostly CGI with a little bit of acting. Give me the the Legendary actors & writers. I love watching the TCM channel!
Don't forget to check out "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", 1978 version.
@@bricky63b Yes.
21:35 Now, almost all cars have bucket seats in the front, where each seat is on its own and independent of the other one, and there is a console in between the two seats. Back in those days, it was not uncommon for cars to have bench seats in the front as well as the rear (a single seat as wide as the car). So sliding across from one side to the other was easy. And, it was actually a bit quicker to slide from one side of the car to the other and get out on that other side, than to get out on your own side and then walk around the car to the other side.
This is one of the best known movie twists ever along with Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects or Empire Strikes Back, so it's always fun to see people who aren't aware of it.
Psycho II is really good too and severely underrated.
Hope this opens the door to more B&W movies for you all.
Classic: Arsenic & Old Lace. Perfect for the season.
You should also watch "The Birds", it's another Hitchcock classic
You beat me to it ‼️😆
The Birds is my movie
That movie is so good too
Great reaction! You two are pretty funny! This movie was a little before my time, but the cars back then used to have Bench Seats and the Driver could just slide over and get out the passenger side of the car if it was easier or safer.
Hitchcock makes a cameo in each of his movies. In this one, he can be seen just outside the door of Marion's office, when Marion returns to work after leaving the hotel with Sam.
I'm glad you liked it. The Bates Motel is a series on A&E that I recommend. It's the story of Norman and his family leading all the way up to him turning psycho.
I loved that show!
Loved the intro!! I had seen the remake before this one and showers with the curtain closed became the ultimate nope.
Anthony Perkins was simply phenomenal in this film. I hope you get to experience more Hitchcock ❤ Rebecca and Rear Window are exceptional.
Thank you all the hard work you guys put into making content, you’re my favourite reaction channel!
I highly recommend watching Psycho 2 now that you've seen the original. Psycho 2 is one of the greatest sequels in movie history.
Yes, it is!!!
Psycho 2 is really good, and does try to paint Norman in a more sympathetic light. Unfortunately it has a good ending, and another ending afterwards which is just bad.
Rare occasion like predator 2 that's better than the 1st film
No no no. Psycho 2 and Predator 2 are poor.
@@robwilkinson793 weirdo
You're so right BJ. Busta did sample the Psycho score, I only remember this because I really loved - and still do love - the song "Gimme Some More" when it came out in the '90s
Yeah, they killed off Marion Crane (Marie Samuels) early on. The music still gets me. Anthony Perkins was great as Norman. Janet Leigh played Marion and she was Jamie Lee Curtis’ mom and Jamie played in lots of horror movies too. Jamie played in Halloween and Mom and daughter both played in the Fog (another scary movie). A lot of people were afraid to shower after this movie. Didn’t you hear Marion’s boyfriend say he had a lot of debts? Marion stole the money to get him out of debt and then marry him. Norman had no idea about the money at all. It was only when Marion asked Norman about putting the mother in an institution that the “mother” had to kill Marion. Hitchcock movies are really good. Enjoyed your reactions!
The original & THE BEST 👍😁 This is one of the movies that should NEVER have a remake done of it ☝️😈
@@mikethemotormouth… I know right… And BOY didn’t it suck worse than a faulty vacuum cleaner 🤦♂️
This movie is the first to show a toilet flushing, movie was very ahead of its time.
What a PERFECT way to start of October!
Love that you didn't know the ending of this movie, that's rare. My all-time favorite Hitchcock movie is Rear Window, it's really suspenseful! Anyone agree? 😱
Absolutely love Rear Window. That and The Birds as a close second.
Have you seen Shadow of a Doubt? That’s my favorite.
Toward the very end of the movie. There's a police officer who hands a person a blanket. It's a young Ted Knight he played the judge in the 1980 comedy Caddy Shack. He also played Ted the funny/ stupid /wimp. Ego maniac news anchor on the CBS 1971-77/78? sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore show. Ted Knight usually had small supporting roles on tv series in the 1960's. He played jerks most of the time.
I never would have noticed. I remember Ted from Mary Tyler Moore
Ted Knight also starred in the comedy series, Too Close For Comfort, but sadly passed away from cancer in 1986 before the 2nd season of that TV show.
This movie gave me nightmares when I was about 12 in the 70s and watched it at a sleepover! LOL! Great reaction!
Saw this movie when I was a kid at a friends house, I couldn’t stop watching it and the fear that built up at the idea of “Mother” was crazy considering how little was shown. When your a kid your imagination really goes wild 🤣
22:17 That scene startled me so much the first time I saw it, that my body went numb for a split second lol. It was the eerie angle that did it too.
As an older guy, it isn’t as hard for me to put myself in the original audience’s place, back when older movies were made…
Hopefully, today’s audiences can do it as well…. but, it has to be so much harder for young folks. The best movies are built on storytelling and character development… and require patience. The payoff is so much more satisfying and lasting.
You two were perplexed about the Private Investigator guy getting out from the passenger door. Our generation tends to forget that cars before the 1970s had the entire front seats as a continuous one piece smooth bench connecting the driver and passenger just like in a semi truck or tow truck, so it was a simple thing to leave the car from the other door. People used to cram 3 or 4 people into the front seats and that’s why they stopped designing the cars that way, to prevent driver distraction.
Great movie. The Grandmother of all slashers. It’s more of a suspense than a horror movie. Still one of my favorites. It was limited to what it could do by the movie code of that era. For instance they would not allow them to show red blood so they had to make the movie in Black and White. Both the opening bedroom and the shower scene were pushing the limits of the time on nudity and sex.
The Grandmother of all slashers...well said.
@@kellyhailey4942 Ty!
Hitchcock said they used Hershey's Chocolate Syrup for the blood ... it worked !
A great movie, a classic to react to. I’m so glad you didn’t realize he was dressing up as the mother…more surprising for you! In 1960 this was truly shocking and ahead of its time. Norman Bates was VERY creepy! The end when he smiles and he’s completely lost his mind was the scariest imo.
I highly recommend checking out the 1982 sequel. Honestly it's really great, and very underrated.
Yeah, it was blasphemy to even think about a sequel to this masterpiece. However, I gave it a shot, and it honestly is really great. However, everyone should just stop after that. No need to go on to Psycho 3 or 4. Trust me!
@@markbartoszek8585 Absolutely, it really does honour the original, and Hitchcock.
33:53 "He not losing it, he lost it."😂😂
An all time classic that has stood the test of time...One of the all time iconic scenes is the shower scene.
Yeah, there are several articles on the shower scene, something like 85 different camera angles. Chocolate syrup for blood. No knife penetration. In fact a few times they filmed the knife tip at her skin then pulled it away, and for the movie, ran that scene in reverse. Even constructed a special shower head so they could film it head on, and not get the camera wet.
I would say THE most iconic scene ever;)
Yes indeed...Very true.@@conureron3792
I agree.@@jannathompson2262
Alfred Hitchcock is a deep rabbit hole that I hope you guys explore further. One of the greatest directors of all time. He has like 15-20 great movies that are all worth a watch. I could write a long list of my favorite Hitchcock films, but I won't overwhelm you. Instead I'll just note a couple movies that I think you should check out next: Rear Window (1954) with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly; and North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant. Hitchcock was known as the Master of Suspense, so not all of his films are horror films (he has murder mysteries, espionage or spy movies, etc. as well). And to answer BJ, Hitchcock does appear in most of his movies, but never as a character...it is always just a quick cameo appearance. It is fun to try and find in each movie where he appears. In Psycho, he appears outside the office in a cowboy hat (about 6 minutes into the movie) as Janet Leigh's character returns to the office. Love your reactions guys (you are both so likable). Asia's reaction to the private detective Arbogast's death was priceless and the shocked looks on both of your faces at the big reveal was awesome. And to answer what or why Arbogast was there, the assumption is that he was hired by either Janet Leigh's employer and/or the skeevy old guy whose money it was to try and find Marion and get the money back (and bring Marion to justice).
This is an amazing film. Truly a fantastic suspenseful horror film. It’s awesome you guys are watching this, hope you guys are doing well. Take care!
Busta Rhymes - "Gimmie Some More" is the song that has the Psycho sample.
The shower scene as well as the twist ending were on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
The lady in 1st 30 minutes, Janet Lee, is Jame Lee Curtis' mom. Janet in Psycho, Jamie in John Carpenter's Halloween
Tony Perkins was brilliant in this part as Norman Bates. He had his own personal issues with mental health at one point in his life so I think it came naturally to him. A very believable psycho. Hitchcock always made cameo appearances in his movies. As many times as I have seen this I've never been able to spot him
I was hoping you were going to give us a time stamp for him. I haven’t seen him in this either.
Hitchcock appears outside the window of the real estate office wearing a white cowboy hat as the owner and customer come in. Note, all the characters in this film appear first in a window. That is NOT a coincidence. Hitchcock knew exactly what he was doing.
@@hevydavy He's outside the window of the office where Marion works when she comes back after being with Sam, wearing a cowboy hat. He isn't shown in this reaction.
Around seven minutes in, he's outside the office wearing a cowboy hat.
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"oh no!"
'i wanna see whats in the cellar'
"i dont"
LOL
Poor Asia is like 31 days of Halloween ugh 😩😅 🧡🎃🍂
Scene at the end: "He feels a little chill, can I bring him this blanket?" BJ: "Hell naw, let him freeze there". 😆 Asia: Shoot, throw that mug in there from the door." 😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂
I have one thing to say... y'all weren't ready, were ya?😆
I LOVVVE old black and white movies!!! They are just better in so many ways. 💖
Anthony Perkins revived this role in a 1980s version (I believe it was the eighties) it was good as well. He fit the part perfectly 🤣
Yes Psycho 2 is highly underrated, a worthy sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s original.
He also played a great disturbed character in the cult classic "Pretty Poison", starring alongside the beautiful Tuesday Weld.
Tony Perkins was such a fantastic actor. It's a shame he didn't get more work. Psycho was his biggest role.
Im so glad you finally watched this! Hitchcock was a genius. He also has a cameo in all of his movies. Hes not an actor in them. Just a quick shot of him. In this one, at the beginning when Marion first walks into her office, hes standing outside the window, wearing a hat, looking out towards the street. Its quick, but he makes an appearance in all of his movies. Usually at the beginning because he didnt want people to be distracted from the story by looking for him. Great reaction! Now that youve opened up the Hitchcock vault, you gotta go down this rabbit hole! Try " The Birds", " Frenzy", "Dial M for Murder", Or " "Rear Window". Most of his movies are in color. He chose black and white for this one because he wanted to keep the movie under budget, and didnt want the shower scene to be too gory. Especially in 1960. His movies are not all slasher type films, but always suspenseful and masterfully done!.
Check out Salem's Lot / Stephen King, The Fog (1980) The Dead Zone (1983) Stephen King, Christine (1983) Stephen King, Stephen King's The Shinning (1997) King's version has a better ending. And is closer to his novel. He wasn't happy with Kurbert's movie version. And Storm of the Century (1999) The story takes place in 1989.
Your reactions MAKE ME lose it! Hahaha. Can't imagine seeing this in a theater. Even now! But in 1960! I am sure people screamed 😱 in the theater. The audience wasn't ALLOWED to enter late and asked not to reveal the ending. 😮