A timeless scare!

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2002)

I saw "Psycho" the first time as a teenager more than twenty years ago and was scared to death. Though this b/w psycho thriller was nearly 20 years old at that time and it was the high time for splatter and zombie movies with much more graphic violence, this movie used to scare me more than any fashionable slasher film. Everything from the heroine's escape, the dark Bates' house, the murder scenes (especially the one in the shower) and the investigations of the Bates' mystery never left my mind again. The sister of a friend of mine even couldn't use the shower anymore for several weeks and used her bathtub instead after having seen this movie...
Now 20 more years have passed, and I just saw this classic again for the tenth (?) time? I don't know... but it's still very scary to me, and even if you know that Anthony Perkins, wearing a wig an old dress, is coming into the bathroom you will still bite your nails during this scene... "Psycho" is purest art - it's a timeless scare that will also fright and thrill the next generations of movie watchers. Excellent!