Psycho, The most overrated horror.. NO suspense movie of all time.

Rating: 1/10 (16 July 1999)

Well, what can I say about this film. It's merely okay and the black and white makes the film seem completely dull and frankly quite boring. I don't understand what all this talk about the color being artistic but I found it repulsive. The acting in the movie was very mediocre, especially from the stiff John Gavin, the ever so proper Vera Miles, and the so serious Martin Balsam. Try watching the new Psycho and you'll find that these characters can actually have personalities. As for Janet Leigh, well she was good, but Anne Heche seemed more innocent, more human, and more sympathetic. As for Anthony Perkins, he's also so monotone, barely ANY emotion, and I struggle to understand why people rave over his dry performance. As for the "mother twist", well that was good but there are twists in about every horror film now a days and they are usually more entertaining than this joke. And then there is the shower scene which everyone says is so scary? Where have they been , I could pick out a dream sequence from any A Nightmare on Elm Street sequel that was done more creatively and powerfully. It was a simple knifing in the shower for god's sake, isn't watching the opening of Drew Barrymore in Scream ten times more chilling and exciting? Give me a break, when I went to Universal Studious they said the shower sequence was one of the most famous scenes of all time. Well, give an audience an opportunity to watch either that or the astonishing death of Piper Laurie in Depalma's Carrie, or the thrill of the finale chase in Halloween, and well see what brings more reactionary emotion of the audience. Well, what can I say about a movie that I will never understand? When people made the new Psycho some thought it was stupid because of the story--and so I know I'm not alone. It's just that these old foggies are so hung up on old movies that they are blind to see that modern movies provide for much more entertainment. Some old horror films like Rosemary's Baby are excellent, but this is not. As for Bernard Herrmann score, it's overplayed, can't he think of anything new to compose? Compare Pino Donnagio' lush score from Carrie opposed to this and see what's more creative and effective. What can I say besides people, this movie is simply average and that it might of have been good back then, but it's simply OK now. Do we still rave about the type writer just because it was original back then? I have spoken and I guess that Blockbuster Video agrees with me that the movie is too much of a joke to be placed in the horror section. It's in the Drama suspense category, and certainly a thrilless and dated film to belong anywhere else. Psycho remains as the most overrated film of all time and the new Psycho is a much better improvement.