Movie Review for Psycho

Summary: When a woman is discovered as missing--last seen at the infamous Bates Motel in the desert--her sister and boyfriend visit the place only to find it run by a voyeuristic, taxidermist loner whose possessed by his dead mother and dresses himself up like her, adopting her personality.

                         Reviews of Psycho
By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (8/0)
            The prolific, adventurous Hitchcock, who never tired of experimenting with his camera and tone, i...

By David Wood of BBC (8/0)
            ...gripping and irrevocably gruesome...

By Bryant Frazer of Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (8/0)
            This is the Hitchcock that sticks it to its audience in the most gleefully malicious ways.

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (8/0)
            What makes Psycho immortal, when so many films are already half-forgotten as we leave the theater...

By Michael E. Grost of Classic Film and Television (7/1)
            Hitchcock classic

By Christopher Null of Classic Horror Reviews (8/0)
            A rare must-see.

                         Reviews of Psycho
By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
            If Hitchcock had used a pseudonym on Psycho, it would have announced the arrival of a great new f...

By David Keyes of David Keyes' Cinema 2000 (8/0)
            No, I'm serious: can you ever think of a horror film that pushed so many boundaries at a time whe...

By John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com (8/0)
            ...more than the great granddaddy of all slasher films; it is a great thriller, a great black com...

By Christopher Null of filmcritic.com (8/0)
            A rare must-see.

By Bosley Crowther of Goatdog's Movie Reviews (8/0)
            ...old-fashioned melodramatics...

By Michael W. Phillips, Jr. of Goatdog's Movies (8/0)
            I understand that the gods of film will rain fire down upon my head when I say this, but I didn't...

                         Reviews of Psycho
By Matt Easterbrook of Matt's Movie Reviews (8/0)
            Whereas in most movies nowadays one can usually predict what will happen next, Psycho transcends ...

By Kevin N. Laforest of Montreal Film Journal (8/0)
            Psycho's just exploitation without what makes exploitation enjoyable, if you ask me!

By Leo Goldsmith of Not Coming to a Theater Near You (8/0)
            Janet Leigh, stalking around in pointy brassieres, making bird-gestures, and flirting with the co...

By Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You (8/0)
            Psycho is not sexually exploitative despite its sexuality, though, as the title suggests, psychol...

By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (8/0)
            Alfred Hitchcock's most popular, influentual and best film.

By Dragan Antulov of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
            Psycho might be not perfect, but it is still watched and maintains its reputation, despite the fa...

                         Reviews of Psycho
By Ted Prigge of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
            It's an amazing thing watching Perkins do his schitck with the role.

By Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon (8/0)
            ...got under your skin and it stayed there.

By Paine Knickerbocker of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
            [Hitchcock] has very shrewdly interwoven crime, sex and suspense, blended the real and the unreal...

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
            As a horror film, it is a horrifying study in terror, and as film in general, it is a brilliant s...

By Tim Dirks of Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (8/0)
            Alfred Hitchcock's powerful, complex psychological thriller, Psycho (1960) is the "mother" of all...

By Marjorie Baumgarten of Austin Chronicle (3/5) No reference
            A perfect Saturday matinee.

                         Reviews of Psycho
By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (3/5) No reference
            ...no other Hitchcock film had a greater impact.

By Gabe Leibowitz of eCinemaCenter.com (4/4) No reference
            With his toothpick build and childish voice, Bates appears to be little more than a shy coward, m...

By David Parkinson of Empire Magazine (4/4) No reference
            Hitchcock introduced the American Nightmare strain into the genre. He also revived the fast-fadin...

By Stefan Birgir Stefansson of sbs.is (3/5) No reference
            one of the greatest

By John A. Nesbit of ToxicUniverse.com (7/1) No reference
            Hitchcock has introduced more people to abnormal psychology than anyone since Sigmund Freud.

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/1) Not Reachable
            ... one of the most frightening films of all time...

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