Still terrified

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2009)

I would bet any money anyone would care to mention that no one in the whole history of film viewing was more terrified as I was after watching Psycho. It appeared on BBC1 for the very first time back in 1968 and as I was only 11 years old I started to watch it with my mum despite warnings of the horror it would hold. After about half an hour my mum had to pick my dad up from work, but my gran was in the house in bed so I decided to watch it on my own, big mistake, my mum and dad arrived home shortly after Arbogast copped it on the stairs to find me shaking like a leaf with a poker in my hand. I went to bed after it had finished, never slept, in fact I never slept for weeks, that haunting slow music when Janet Leigh takes the money out of the newspaper in the garage toilet still gives me the creeps, if anyone has ever been more scared by a film then heaven help them.