Best horror movie of all times??

Rating: 6/10 (7 November 2003)

Sorry, but I've never understood why "Psycho" is considered by so many people to be the best horror movie of all times (I give it only 7/10). Very influental it is, yes. Maybe also I've just seen a bit too many dozens of mass murderer movies based more or less on "Psycho", that the original doesn't feel so special anymore?
I think that a good movie must stand time and can be watched many times over and over again. Why should one want to watch "Psycho" again? The plot is so easy to guess even when seeing the movie first time that I find there not too much excitement.
What's the plot and idea of this movie? Some nut just goes killing innocent people, because he's crazy, and that's the whole story. Period. Scary? Well, as much as irrational violence is scary.
I also find it disgusting that in many horror movies psychotic people are often portrayed as the cause of all evil, when most of them are only very sick and mostly not particularly harmful to anyone. What is really scary - in real life or on a film - are people basically having everything ok and a good mental health, but still often doing horrible things, including irrelevant violence. Most violence in the world is done by such "normal" people.
I think that Hitchcock has many better movies than "Psycho". For example "Rear Window" is a true classic in its minimalism, though maybe not particularly scary, at least in the way modern horror movies playing mainly on special effects are. Anyway, there you have just an ordinary guy, could be your nextdoor neighbour, who cruelly kills his wife etc., Now that's a scary idea, and the plot makes you think too.