Horror it is!

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2015)

I'm not a fan of horror movies. In fact I hadn't watched any horror movie before watching Psycho. I like thrillers though and I've seen many movies with psychopath serial killers (se7en, the silence of the lambs, identity, zodiac, criminal minds...). So I thought, it's a serial killer black and white movie from 1960, how scary can it be? I've never been so wrong. I was familiar with the split personality thing from other movies and so I guessed that Norman and his mother were one person very early. And in the scene in the basement I was almost sure that we would see a skeleton sitting in that chair. The movie wasn't shocking or twisting at all for me. AND YET IT SCARED THE S*** OUT OF ME! It's been three days now and I still have trouble sleeping. I'm not sure why, I mean I've seen much more troubled psychopaths and watched much more brutal murders and wasn't scared a bit. Alfred Hitchcock is definitely a genius. Music is excellent and it seems that it plays a big role in scaring the viewer. Right now, I feel like I don't want to watch a horror movie again. But I'm sure I will never be able to forget Psycho.