Psycho (Collector's Edition)
by Alfred Hitchcock
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Actor: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Vera MilesDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-05-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Psycho (Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: "Taxidermy is a Challenging Hobby"
Summary: 5 Stars
How many time have I seen this classic movie? I am thinking 45 would be a low estimate. This low-budget Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece is what I consider his best movie. There are many great scenes in here for a cinematographer/director to study if they had a class in Movie Production 101. They have been copied many times in sincerest flattery, but never duplicated. They are: Janet Leigh's driving along with the embezzled money in the hammering rain. The windshield wipers are keeping time to the eerie background music as we study her facial features. Janet Leigh getting pulled over by the highway patrolman and her nervousness at the stolen money being discovered. We watch as she has to move the bundle of money out of the way to retrieve her driver's licence in her purse for the patrolman. Her arrival at the Bates Motel, and the forboding appearance of the building, the foreshadowing. The stuffed wildlife on display and the mannerisms of Norman Bates, played brilliantly by Anthony Perkins. Perkins' voyerism of Leigh as she is in the motel room. The eye through the peephole shot as a parallelsim to Leigh's later eye shot. The famous shower scene. The ethereal form of the slasher behind the shower curtain. The eerie music, mimicking the slashing movements, Leighs' terror and clawing and grasping at the shower curtain. The "dead-eye" shot of Leigh in the bathtub, the "blood" running to the drain, the drain mimicking the round eye, the symbolism of the life ebbing, going down the drain. Janet Leigh's discovered car being pulled out of the boggy water with a rope. The "fall" of Martin Balsam down the huge staircase in the big house. The pained conversations of Bates with his mother. The scene of the taxidermied mother in the chair in the basement and finally Norman Bates conversations with self as a fly buzzes around him at the police station. We must also mention John Gavin, simply for his ability to project gorgeous male-ness, of the tall, dark and handsome variety. If you need a Halloween Treat and have not seen the movie, this would be "it." Of course if you have, nothing is ever ruined by seeing it again. It never gets old.DVD Review: FIve star move --NO STAR REMASTERING!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am not a techno wiz so I have no idea what it takes to remaster an older movie, but this was NO different than the collector's edition that came out several years ago. I was very disappointed as there is still a ton of specs during the movie and it's very grainy. In fact I am not sure this isn't WORSE than the one before. If they can take a movie from 1940 (It's a Wonderful Life) and make it almost flawless, why couldn't they do it to Psycho, which was made 20 years later. Very disappointing. The special features are all fine but half of them were on the other disc too. But regardless, you buy a dvd for the film and this is a major let down. I want my $20 back.DVD Review: Brilliant film--but one of the extras made me angry--
Summary: 5 Stars
Love this film--and have for 35 years since I first saw it. No commentary from me would add to that which has been already written about it.
One of the extras was about Hitchcock's legacy. Two of the directors discussing their influence by Hitchcock were the directors of recent films "Smokin' Aces" and "Hostel."
To me these films are abominations and against everything that Hitchcock stood for. Any influence is superficial at best as these recent films are the main staple of an audience who wants mindless, gory action.
For these mindless directors to appear in this documentary homage to Hitchcock who would have found these films horrible movie-making was an insult to those of us who crave something more from our movies--and aren't finding it anymore!!!!!!!
DVD Review: Greatest Horror Movie of Them All
Summary: 5 Stars
The thing about a Hitchcock film is that it gets better with each viewing. Universal Studios Home Entertainment realizes this, since they've just rereleased the ultimate terror film "Psycho" (1960), which broke cinematic ground in depicting on-screen violence. Before "Psycho," murders on screen were sanitized, scrubbed of the bloody and visceral. Hitchcock changed all that in the tale of a strange motel keeper and his homicidal mother. Based on a novel by Robert Bloch, "Psycho" is easily one of the most frightening films of all time.
Shot for a modest budget of $800,000, "Psycho" was to become Hitch's most popular and financially successful movie. It is the ultimate haunted-house saga, with outstanding performances by Anthony Perkins as the odd Norman Bates, a man who covers up the crimes of his deranged mother, and Janet Leigh as secretary Marion Crane, who steals $40,000 in order to run off and get married.
If you've never seen "Psycho," now's the time, because the current Universal Legacy DVD Edition fills you in on lots of juicy background info, including newsreel footage of the theatrical release of the film, behind-the-scenes production photos, a making-of featurette, and extensive analysis of the famous shower sequence. A nice treat is the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV episode, "Lamb to the Slaughter," directed by Hitchcock, which sardonically illustrates how best to dispose of a murder weapon.
DVD Review: Classic masterpiece, but cool with alternate soundtrack too!
Summary: 5 Stars
No dispute that Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" is a masterpiece. No argument that Bernard Herrmann's score is also brilliant, iconic. BUT, in searching here on Amazon I found this alternate music soundtrack by this group called JoKr. I was listening to the mp3's on their page on Amazon here, and it's pretty cool. It sort of reminds me of that old stoner thing they say you can do with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wizard of Oz." The name of the 2 disc album is "PSYCHOsync." Check it out!
Description of Psycho (Collector's Edition)
At last--a great American movie available on video for the first time in its original aspect ratio. For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skillfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters--then pulls the rug (or the bathmat) out from under you. Anthony Perkins is unforgettable as Norman Bates, the mama's boy proprietor of the Bates Motel; and so is Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, who makes an impulsive decision and becomes a fugitive from the law, hiding out at Norman's roadside inn for one fateful night. Psycho gets the masterpiece treatment it deserves on DVD, with extras including newsreel footage surrounding the making and release of the movie; an archive of production stills; the special trailer in which Hitchcock (acting as one of the original Universal Studio tour guides) himself leads viewers around the Bates place; credit designer Saul Bass's original "shower scene" story boards; posters and advertising materials for the movie's William Castle-like publicity campaign (No One Will Be Seated After the Feature Begins!); and a 90-minute documentary on the making of the film! What more could any movie fan possibly want? --Jim EmersonAt last--a great American movie available on video for the first time in its original aspect ratio. For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skillfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters--then pulls the rug (or the bathmat) out from under you. Anthony Perkins is unforgettable as Norman Bates, the mama's boy proprietor of the Bates Motel; and so is Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, who makes an impulsive decision and becomes a fugitive from the law, hiding out at Norman's roadside inn for one fateful night. Psycho gets the masterpiece treatment it deserves on DVD, with extras including newsreel footage surrounding the making and release of the movie; an archive of production stills; the special trailer in which Hitchcock (acting as one of the original Universal Studio tour guides) himself leads viewers around the Bates place; credit designer Saul Bass's original "shower scene" story boards; posters and advertising materials for the movie's William Castle-like publicity campaign (No One Will Be Seated After the Feature Begins!); and a 90-minute documentary on the making of the film! What more could any movie fan possibly want? --Jim Emerson
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