Great film that misses it's main objective for me.

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2007)

I always saw Psycho as more of a thriller than a horror, although it has obvious horror elements.
Although the film is a classic and warrants extensive praise for it's total construction, acting and fantastic soundtrack, it failed to have any impact on me whatsoever as a scary or frightening picture.
The often mentioned "tension" never got to me and I have always felt this film to be weak in comparison to it's huge reputation.
It ranks on this website as the greatest horror movie ever made, but I personally wouldn't have it in my top hundred, as the primary task of the horror film is to scare the living daylights out of the viewer. Psycho never quite achieved that with me. Other films of the period such as "The Innocents" and "Night Of The Demon", were in a different class in terms of scare movies and still to this day have a scare factor and tension that "Psycho" sadly lacks.
Great film that misses it's main objective for me.