PSYCHO (dvd,1960) *NEW* B&W, from the and 28 similar items

Brand new factory sealed dvd, no outer slipsleeve. PSYCHO is the best known-movie of the best-known director in the world. Named #1 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Thrills list. It's one of the most influential films ever made--and Alfred Hitchcock said he made it as a joke! Every situation in the plot has been copied or parodied to death. Bernard Hermann's effectively irratating music has been swiped countless times. The film remains unsettling after more than 70 years. People still argue about who was responsible for which plot twists and why it was shot in black-and-white. Norman's first victim, Janet Leigh wouldn't let her daughter Jamie (Lee Curtis) watch it on TV. Now her daughter is typecast in horror films that wouldn't exist if not for this one. Anthony Perkins, appearing at a screening in Cleveland, said: "You know I have been in other films". Most of the audience couldn't recall any of them. With John Gavin as the hardware store owner/boyfriend, Vera Miles as the sister, Martin Balsam as Arbogast, John McIntire as the sheriff, and Simon Oakland as the psychiatrist who explains what a transvestite is. In 1960 no one was allowed to enter the theatre after the picture had begun. Norman Bates is a reclusive young man who runs a motel and lives in a weird house with his domineering mother. But first there's Janet Leigh embezzling money from her boss and taking it on the lam. Later, her lover John Gavin and her sister Vera Miles search for her, as does investigator Martin Balsam. Then comes the sequence when Miles enters the cellar and... I can't reveal more without spoiling the many thrills to be had. Scriptwriter Joseph Stefano went on to produce the 'Outer Limits' TV series. The story was based on Robert Bloch's novel. Rumour has it the book was based on real life ghoul Ed Gein as it happened in the next town over from where Bloch lived! In 1982, 'Psycho 2' was finally being shot with Perkins and Miles repeating their roles.