A brilliant PSYCHO-logical thriller...

Rating: Null/10 (19 February 2004)

Alfred Hitchcock was either insane or genius. Or maybe it was the combination of the two that made Hitchcock such an amazing director. He opened so many doors for future horror films and for future directors in general. Hitchcock wasn't an immediate hit though, even though he made over 50 films in his amazing career that spanned 5 decades. There was much debate over the violence in Psycho. But Hitchcock did become very famous, and his work was and is still very much admired.	Psycho is brilliant. Plain and simple, it is a movie that could not have been made, written or directed any better. In 1998, Gus Van Sant did attempt to re-create this classic. And even though it was done shot-by-shot, it flopped at the box offices and definitely vexed many hard-core original Psycho fans. The original is without a doubt a timeless thriller, it was perfectly made. There are so many reasons why Psycho is ranked so high in movie lovers' hearts, but the psychological aspect of it has to be one of the biggest.	Again, the psychological aspects of this film are astounding. It's one of those thrillers where in the end, one can only think `whoa'. Hitchcock had this amazing way of involving the viewer in his films. He makes the viewer hang on the edge of their seat throughout the whole movie. And it's not the sort of suspense that we're used to. It's different. He used music and camera angles and little hints along the way to add to the suspense. There are only a handful of these kinds of films, and Hitchcock can for sure be credited for those, maybe not for making them, but making those directors and writers able to show their creativity in this new form of horror movies.
This film definitely deserves 12 out of 10. It exceeds viewers expectations and leaves them still thinking.