On the 35th anniversary of the film’s release, it’s time to Give Psycho II it’s proper due. Hitting movie houses a full twenty-two years after the original Psycho, Psycho II had a high bar to match. The inroads and infamy attached to the original were still, even in 1983, understood […]
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It’s getting tough to keep up with all the fantastically furious Blu Ray releases from Shout Factory these days. Our sister site GCDB has done a pretty nice job cataloguing most of their classic B-movie and cult titles but we’ve only featured a few. We’re thrilled to now learn that […]
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Today I’m talking about the black and white masterpiece by Alfred Hitchcock. If you don’t know who Hitchcock is then you’re missing out on some of the greatest films ever made. The sheer volume of his output is amazing. Some of his work includes such classics […]
PSYCHO (1960, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock) When the “Master of Suspense” set out to make this movie it was to be a modest, low budget thriller shot by the crew of his popular TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. As with almost all of his projects, it soon became something much more […]
There have been several important director/composer collaborations throughout cinema history and one of its most well established and unique was Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. For Psycho (1960), coined the “godfather of slasher films” by cineasts, Herrmann created a rapidly paced, macabre masterpiece of bright shrieking strings and brass cues […]