buying off unhappiness

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2007)

not much more can be said about Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece except to ask why over 1000 people rated this movie a 1 or 2.as someone once said,there's no accounting for taste.this film was a major hit in it's day-really amazing since it was made for less than a million dollars.psycho is in a away the antithesis of a project like The Birds from a technical point of view,not requiring a lot of special effects or fast editing(except for the famous shower scene).but it makes up for this with an interesting story and chilling score.this was the beginning of the end for Anthony Perkins,as he would forever be typecast as a psychotic in future roles.the usually wooden John Gavin and Vera Miles give adequate performances,but the surprise is Janet Leigh as the woman who succumbs to temptation.even more surprising is that she is killed off halfway through the picture!the movie by which all other horror films are judged.