Physco (1960)

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Writers:

Joseph Stefano (Screen play)

Robert Bloch (Novel)

Stars:

Anthony Perkins

Janet Leigh

Vera Miles

Marion Crane is fed up of the way life has treated her, so she steals the £40,000 and runs away with it, the weather was terrible so she stops off at the Bates Motel.

We initially think the hotel is managed by a nice young man, also he appears normal at the start.

This time the external threat is a mad man, with a deranged mind.

There was a few big scenes these were the shower scene in this scene we see blood, water and a women’s naked body but in them days they had to sensor the private parts by putting legs in certain positions, there was also the car scene where we wonder whether the car is going to sink or not.

In Physco we can say there is actually not a hero, we initially think that the detective is the hero but then he gets killed by the mother so then there is no hero.

Physco flouts expectations, also there is two major surprises one is the shower murder scene, because you don’t expect her to get murdered, also at the end of the film you don’t expect the mother to be a copse as we thought she was a normal person as she was speaking in the film but then we realise it was the son all along.

Also in this film the screenplay tricked us, Marrion was the main character but she gets killed off. Furthermore there was no advanced screenings of Physco, because they tried to hide it.

Out of the many Hitchcock’s films this is the one that has had the most hits in America. Bernard Herrmann’s strident discordant music has been used in countless other films.

Finally in this film we see blood, water, and a women’s naked body.