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Psycho

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Original title: Psycho
Year: 1960
Running time: 109 min.
Country: United States
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Joseph Stefano. Novel: Robert Bloch
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography: John L. Russell (B&W)
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, John McIntire, Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland, Patricia Hitchcock
Producer: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Horror. Mystery. Thriller | Serial Killers. Slasher. Psychological Thriller. Cult Movie
Movie Groups: Psycho
Synopsis: Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to keep the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel Manager Norman Bates oddly seems to be dominated by his mother.

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Awards: 1960: Academy Awards: 4 Nominations: Director, Supporting Actress (Leigh), Cinematography and Art Direction (B&W)

1960: Golden Globes: Best Supporting Actress (Janet Leigh)

1960: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director

1960: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Drama Screenplay

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"What makes 'Psycho' immortal, when so many films are already half-forgotten as we leave the theater, is that it connects directly with our fears (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"An unusual, good entertainment, indelibly Hitchcock."

Variety
"We feel his explanations are a bit of leg-pulling by a man who has been known to resort to such tactics in his former films. The consequence in his denouement falls quite flat"

Bosley Crowther: The New York Times
"The suspense of his picture builds up slowly but surely to an almost unbearable pitch of excitement."

New York Daily News
"Its power is not just that of a showman’s calibrated scare machine, but of a somber fugue on the trapped 20th-century creatures who inhabit its world (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Bill Weber: Slant
"'Psycho' not only relocated horror from faraway Transylvania to the heart of the American family but was shockingly ironic from beginning to end."

J. Hoberman: Village Voice
"'Psycho', in its dark and sordid extravagance, remains utterly contemporary, in its subject as well as in its production"

Richard Brody: The New Yorker
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