I shouldn't have been too excited

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2007)

From the past one month, I went all gaga about watching the 'classic' movie Psycho. I kept reading about it. The effect it had caused on all. My grandmother told me that it was really creepy and scary and my father warned me that I would wet my pants!
I roamed all around Vadodara, my birthplace in India but couldn't find even a single shop that sold the DVD or the VCD of the movie. Finally, God had heard my prayers. Psycho was going to be shown on the television.
I watched it with my mother and sister. My sister went all huddled in a blanket from the very beginning. Overacting, that's what she does, and I got wild at her whenever she talked loudly while the movie was going on, asking spoilers; how the movie would end? Why did she do that? Who was the mother? And what not!
And I kept waiting for something the fright the s**t out of me throughout the movie. Unfortunately, I did not find it eerie, scary, frightening at all. But I kept reminding myself that it was a movie of the 60's when there were inadequate means of adding special effects and the video cameras too would have been old and therefore not much effects could be added.
I thought the black and white color of the film would make it more frightening but unfortunately it too didn't help that much. Till the end, I kept making excuses, siding the film, about how not much facilities were available at that time.
It is a timeless classic and therefore, it is hard for me to give a rating more lower than this. But after watching movies like King Kong where the inhabitants of the Skull island were unfathomably creepy looking, the skeleton of the Mother didn't make me even shiver a bit or make my heart thump faster.
The story too was nothing too extraordinary, but an excuse I can give for this is that maybe there are a lot of movies after Psycho which have borrowed somewhat the story from the movie and therefore I found the story of Psycho a bit lame. But I feel that the story could have been better, especially the ending, because Agatha Christie too was I think, alive at that time, and the suspense in her books gave me creeps and made me perplexed. An excuse: Don't read any suspense books before seeing Psycho.
But I loved the script, though the story was a bit lame. The dialogs were crisp, especially Anthony Perkin's famous quote:- " A boy's best friend is his mother".
The acting was superb and all the actors were at the top notch. But no one could make my shift from my place, because I heard a lot that its a creepy film.
I would give it a seven out of ten, but still, I felt that it should have been scarier, or rather, it is my err that I was born in 1993 and watched this film in 2007, when loads of special effects enhanced the horror in films.