Psycho is a film masterpiece that gave birth to what has now become the slasher horror movie genre. Of course it is nowhere near as crude and gory as what modern film audiences have become accustomed to, and therein lies the genius of Hitchcock’s film making — he managed to deliver a tense, twisting and completely unsettling movie without stooping to the level of obscenity. And of course, since he was so completely ahead of his time in creating these kinds of stories, the movie almost didn’t get made.
Hitchcock (starring Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Hellen Mirren) tells the story of the auteur and his wife and the personal and financial trouble they went through to bring Psycho to the silver screen. With his relationship, home and reputation on the line, if the movie hadn’t have been successful, he would have lost everything and been relegated to the dustbin of obscurity. Instead, as history would have it, Psycho would propel him to the forefront of the industry and cement him as the master of suspense and horror.
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