Psycho is a good movie but it definitely does not beat the standards there are for today’s horror films. The murder scenes were ridiculously stupid because it was just someone’s arm acting like its stabbing something. It did not look real at all but I guess that’s all they could do for the time of the movie. I couldn’t believe that they almost stopped this movie from airing just because they showed a toilet in one scene. That’s a lot stricter than what we watch nowadays. I thought it would have been the fact that the girl was taking a shower which I would be able to understand a bit more I just don’t know what a toilet couldn’t be in the movie.
Up until the end of the movie I was able to predict what was going to happen. They played scary music when someone was about to die so you knew every time there was going to be a murder scene. Movies today do that but they also try to trick you by playing scary music even if someone isn’t going to die. The ending was crazy because I thought that he put the body in the car and disposed of it but he had it all along. I also thought that he had a mother that lived with him who faked her own death. But it turns out that his mother was dead after and he kept the body upstairs and used it as a mother figure and had multi personality disorder were he talked to himself in his mother’s voice and than in his own voice. The only parts I don’t get is the figure in the window that Mrs. Cranes boyfriend saw and how there was to people in their end when he tried to stop himself from stabbing Mrs. Cranes sister.
Over all I thought it was a good movie for the time that it was made in. I was actually able to follow along and understand what was going on unlike other movies from that age or older that I’ve watched. And being the first type of horror film I think Alfred Hitchcock did a good job on the storyline and directing of the movie. I do prefer the newer scary movies but I would watch this one again if I had nothing else to watch.
