Another Hitchcock Favorite

Rating: Null/10 (23 October 2004)

I first saw this movie when I was a young girl and had never seen anything like it. I had never seen a woman in a bra, in the movies, and had never seen anyone flush a toilet. Also, it was always a man who stole the money. Never a young pretty woman. One of the best scenes in the movie, I believe, is when Norman and Marion are in the parlor. Anthony Perkins was so convincing as a disturbed young man. He was trying to defend his mother for her "illness"and saying at the time,how much he hated the prison she had put him in. The fact that I lived down the street from a taxidermist might have added to my fear. I also did not have a clue as to the state of his mother. That came as a real shock. This must have been the first horror movie. It is also true that a lot of my friends took only baths after seeing that movie. Never a shower. Janet Leigh's eyeball and the drain was clever. I suppose it pales in comparison to todays slasher movies, but for it's time, it was a terrifying day at the movies. When you view this movie, remember the time in which it was made.