One of the Best from One of the Best

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2020)

"Psycho" is a masterpiece of both filmmaking and storytelling, and it's also probably one of the most influential films ever made (no hyperbole needed). While Alfred Hitchcock's career is stuffed to the gills with thrilling, horrific stories ("Frenzy", "The Birds") and intriguing mysteries ("Vertigo", "Rope"), this film is sort of the best of both worlds; it starts off as one thing and morphs into something entirely different. "Psycho" has some of the best subversions of expectations I've seen brought to screen, and that's only looking at this movie from a storytelling standpoint; from a filmmaking standpoint, this film is a technical marvel, and that infamous shower scene is to this day being touted as one of the best edited minutes of cinema history (if you've got the time, check out the documentary "78/52"- about the seventy-eight setups and fifty-two cuts used in the scene). This is my personal favorite of Hitch's films, and I think it's also the best thing he ever made (sorry "Vertigo", "Notorious", "Rear Window", "North By Northwest", and "Rebecca").