The first and best 'slasher suspense' film ever created.

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2009)

I watched this fairly recently, it stood out to me, for I already appreciated that this is THE HORROR film, the one that comes to mind (shower scene with high pitched music). But for me, what is so marvellous about this film, is that it has not been ruined by adding pointless sex scenes or having countless 'stereotypical blonds' being slaughtered by the thousand, for that is all one will typically see in the slasher movies of the past 20 years. It gave me some relief to see a film that was pure genius in terms of acting, directing (Hitchcock, the best) and how the camera is shot from what was originally seen as and still is seen as rather unusual angles. Instead of the naked blonde teen being killed by the lakeside in the height of summer or in bed with her lover straight into the film, Psycho has some background to it. Lila Crane (Vera Miles)is on the run after stealing a large sum of money, and we see her for the fist 10 or 15 minutes of the film driving anxiously out of the city with the constant fear of being caught or tracked down. She then stops of for a rest at the Bates Motel, and from there the story slowly unfolds at a rate that is not so fast the film just gets far to unreal, but at a rate that allows you to get a good idea of the persona's of the characters, especially Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and it gives you time to wonder, why does him mother sit by the window for such long periods of time without moving an inch? I will leave that for you to find out.