Grand-daddy Of All Slasher Movies

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2001)

Not many people know it, but Robert Bloch loosely based his original novel on the story of Ed Gein, a farmer of Plainfield, Wisconsin who collected body parts from the cemetary and who killed two women. Almost too weird to be true, Bloch sensationalized the original story and created a top notch horror story which became a movie that started a whole new series of slasher and killer movies. Psycho is a masterpeice in direction, style, acting, writing, plot and execution. The story centers around that of a lovely, would-be female thief who absconds with a lot of money. The movies rotates around the movie's main character like a pin wheel before shooting in and absolving the story with a climax and one of the single most recognizable visuals in movie history. Anthony Perkins is a vulnerable but likeable maniac with a character, a far cry from his hockey masked and claw handed progeny. Janet Leigh proves how the shower is the most vulnerable spot for a person to be, and Martin Balsam creates a believable detective far from the trench coat gumshoes in the old nickel and dime stories. Spoofing the role later in the flick, Silence of the Hams, he proved just how far this movie has seeped into the consciousness of movie-goers.