the best hitchcock film surpasses rebecca, notorious, and north by northwest by far

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 2001)

before i first watched psycho, i had a vague idea of what it was about. actually i didn't. i knew that janet leigh got stabbed while she was taking a shower. that's all. so i knew nothing, because that's public knowledge. like if a psychiatrist says psycho you say shower. well it was ten at night in the height of summer and i was laying down to go to sleep when my mom said scott come here! i went down to the living room just in time to see the black and white almost generic credits roll by. i thought what is this? my mom wouldn't tell me so i just sat down. as soon as i saw janet leigh i knew what it was. so before the movie progressed too far, i got some popcorn and pop and strapped myself in for the ride. i didn't know what i was in for. as soon as leigh turned on the water, i looked at my mom and she was asleep. i woke her up, knowing that there was no way in heck that i was watching the first ever graphic murder scene complete with the screeching violins of bernard herrman alone. and i thought the shower scene was bad! the second murder and the final attempted murder at the end resulted in strewn popcorn all over my living room floor! i was scared out of my mind. just when i thought i had made it through this roller coaster of a movie, i saw anthony perkins in a jail cell at the end thinking. it wasn't bad until norman looked down at a fly crawling on his hand. this was the scariest part in the movie i think. so now its twelve thirty in the morning im the only one awake in the house and my room is upstairs and to the left. i wasn't going to bed. the only fault with this movie is that i think it ruined anthony perkins career because he never was able to escape norman bates. but this movie is incredible. excellent twists in the plot, first rate soundtrack, an excellent cast, and of course, the masterful direction of hitchcock make this film one of two perfect films that i have seen in my life (the other one being Remember the Titans)