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  • Psycho (1960) First Time Watching Movie Reaction, Review, and Commentary for JL. Many moments trying to figure out where exactly Norman fits on the crazy scale and many moments finally realizing what Billy Loomis was talking about at the bottom of that staircase were had.
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  • @tristramcoffin926
    @tristramcoffin926 18 днів тому +80

    Can we just take a second to appreciate how hilariously efft up it is to react to Psycho for a 'Mother's Day Celebration?' LOL

    • @MsAppassionata
      @MsAppassionata 17 днів тому +6

      😂😂😂😂 Your comment actually made me lol.

  • @robertjewell9727
    @robertjewell9727 19 днів тому +205

    When I first started watching your channel about 2 years or so ago I mentioned you need to see Psycho and you responded with, "I'm going to. It's on my list." Dang. I am so patient. 😄👍😊

    • @shinrapresident7010
      @shinrapresident7010 19 днів тому +16

      Somehow the more movies J watches, the longer the list gets.😅

    • @brigettekorenek8135
      @brigettekorenek8135 18 днів тому +2

      🤣🤣😘

    • @georgeditzel3504
      @georgeditzel3504 18 днів тому +4

      I don’t think he had a gray beard then.

    • @torbnymublous4403
      @torbnymublous4403 18 днів тому +4

      He said porky's is on the list, too. It's hard to fill orders when when you're in high demand.

    • @tarrded
      @tarrded 18 днів тому +6

      Check out Psycho 2

  • @KevinMiller-ol2wi
    @KevinMiller-ol2wi 19 днів тому +150

    The girl that jacked the money is Jamie Lee Curtis's mom Janet Leigh and the other girl talking to her in the office is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock

    • @Existential_Carousel
      @Existential_Carousel 18 днів тому +6

      I was gonna say that but you beat me to it! Ironic that he referenced Halloween in the video too.

    • @lauraneely6270
      @lauraneely6270 18 днів тому +4

      I didn't know that was Alfred Hitchcock's daughter. Interesting tidbit.

    • @stevenandcarminabeedle9089
      @stevenandcarminabeedle9089 18 днів тому +1

      Yeah so he’s seen her before. And her car. In Halloween H20 😁 They even played the theme song. It was a really nice nod to her mom. I think she even said something about being motherly or something 😆

    • @stevenandcarminabeedle9089
      @stevenandcarminabeedle9089 18 днів тому

      Yeah she looks just like him.

    • @MsAppassionata
      @MsAppassionata 18 днів тому

      @@lauraneely6270 She was also in “Strangers On A Train” and “Stage Fright”.

  • @BlueHorizon674
    @BlueHorizon674 19 днів тому +102

    Anthony Perkins should've definitely won an oscar for this performance we wouldn't have any of the slashers without Norman Bates and this movie holds up so well for it's time!

    • @SurvivorBri
      @SurvivorBri 18 днів тому +9

      Should *have is the correct phrase (or should've). Should "of" means nothing.

    • @BlueHorizon674
      @BlueHorizon674 18 днів тому +8

      @@SurvivorBri Good point, I didn't really go back to my comment until now appreciate the correction

    • @mth666
      @mth666 17 днів тому +3

      @@SurvivorBrithank you. My grammor is gonna be betta because’ve you

    • @amberaustin3243
      @amberaustin3243 16 днів тому +1

      @@mth666nice! Lol! 😂

  • @jgarofalo8813
    @jgarofalo8813 18 днів тому +18

    “A boy’s best friend is his mother”
    J- 😒 “listen”. 😂
    I think you would love Rear Window another Hitchcock film. It’s more of a murder mystery than scary but it’s one of the best movies of all time!

    • @stevenandcarminabeedle9089
      @stevenandcarminabeedle9089 18 днів тому +2

      Love that one! And the one with Audrey Hepburn where she’s blind. I don’t think that’s Hitchcock though.

    • @erey214
      @erey214 18 днів тому

      Lithen

    • @jgarofalo8813
      @jgarofalo8813 18 днів тому

      @@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 it isn’t but has one of the best jump scares ever!

    • @lex61519
      @lex61519 11 днів тому

      I LOVE Rear Window

    • @maurakinney2403
      @maurakinney2403 10 днів тому

      @@stevenandcarminabeedle9089Wait Until Dark! Love that movie.

  • @blakeharris58
    @blakeharris58 18 днів тому +36

    The reason the boss looks at her in that way is because she’s supposed to be home with a headache. He knew *something* was wrong.

    • @richardrobbins387
      @richardrobbins387 18 днів тому +9

      Tarantino sorta used the same POV shot in Pulp Fiction when Butch is driving and Marcellus is crossing in front of his car. I wouldn't usually notice such a thing, but of course, Quentin has said it himself.

    • @cashflowhustles
      @cashflowhustles 18 днів тому +4

      ​​@@richardrobbins387I noticed that as well. Not immediately but eventually. Tarantino is an absolute film fiend with encyclopedic recall is The KING Of Homages. Of course his critics would label him King Of Thieves. 😅🤣 But I LIKE QT so I see it from a creative perspective and not just cheap thievery. I'm a film fanatic myself.

    • @MsAppassionata
      @MsAppassionata 17 днів тому +1

      @@richardrobbins387 Wow! I never really thought about that, but now that you mention it…🤔👍🏽

  • @emoartist12
    @emoartist12 18 днів тому +32

    This is how Wes Craven got his idea for killing Drew Barrymore in Scream with killing off the main character.

    • @finster1968
      @finster1968 18 днів тому +1

      It was actually Drew Barrymore’s idea and not Wes Craven’s. Wes offered her the lead. She declined, but still wanted to participate. She knew it would be shocking for an A list actor to die early which is why she chose to play Casey Becker and not Sidney.

    • @emoartist12
      @emoartist12 18 днів тому +1

      @@finster1968 either way it happened and was a huge success. Did you know she wants to comeback to the Scream franchise? Idk how’d they do it, but she definitely wants to.

    • @finster1968
      @finster1968 18 днів тому +1

      @@emoartist12 - Yes, I heard that too. That would be awesome. I’m glad Neve Campbell is returning to the next one.

    • @Mr.Schitzengigglez
      @Mr.Schitzengigglez 16 днів тому

      I've got a letter from Danny Rolling, to Merle Allin, in the safe, right next to me.
      Fucker stays locked in there, too.
      Its like a nipple earing, from Ed Geins house.
      Wish I never got drunk, and bought it.

  • @tenjed4224
    @tenjed4224 18 днів тому +82

    Janet Leigh was considered the most valued woman in Hollywood, at the time. No one expected her to be dead in the first 30 minutes of the movie. According to newspaper accounts, people left the theater completely stunned. And the theaters did a good job of keeping Janet's death a secret, telling cinema goers not to talk about the movie beyond the times it was playing.

    • @smichelle65
      @smichelle65 18 днів тому +10

      If you check out the trailer, with Hitchcock giving a tour of the Bates Motel, there's a jumpscare at the end where he pulls back the shower curtain to reveal a screaming woman. The woman is NOT Janet Leigh, but in fact Vera Miles, the actress who played Lilah.

    • @Scary__fun
      @Scary__fun 18 днів тому +14

      Wes Craven killing off Drew Barrymore in Scream was an homage to Psycho. Drew was a star then and the audience also didn't expect her to die so quickly.

    • @dabe1971
      @dabe1971 18 днів тому +5

      You can thank the late, great Alma Reville, Hitchcocks wife for that masterstroke. Hitch was already worried about killing his star at the midpoint of the movie but it was Alma who famously told him to "..not wait until halfway, kill her after thirty minutes." That way the audience would have no clue as to what could happen in the rest of the film heightening the tension even further.

    • @randywhite3947
      @randywhite3947 18 днів тому

      Who said she was the most valued?

    • @randywhite3947
      @randywhite3947 18 днів тому

      The most valued woman would have been either Audrey Hepburn or Marilyn Monroe

  • @MorrisB1971
    @MorrisB1971 18 днів тому +10

    "Rear Window" needs to be the next one!!! He will love that movie!!

  • @robertjewell9727
    @robertjewell9727 18 днів тому +72

    "The music's on point. The music's like it knows something you don't." Frickin' great observation! My friend Dorothy's dad did the music for this film. He was brilliant.

    • @james7275able
      @james7275able 18 днів тому

      Your friend is the daughter of Bernard Herman? Wow. I bought a best of Bernard Herman film score CD a while back. Need to try and find it and listen to it.

    • @reservoirdude92
      @reservoirdude92 18 днів тому +2

      Lol you know Bernard Hermann's daughter? C'maaaaan.

    • @jgarofalo8813
      @jgarofalo8813 18 днів тому +5

      Herrmann was a genius.

    • @robertjewell9727
      @robertjewell9727 18 днів тому +3

      @@reservoirdude92 ya, we're good friends. Met her about 10 years ago. Although we live about 6 hours apart, we talk often and get together at holidays and celebrations and such.

    • @bighuge1060
      @bighuge1060 18 днів тому +1

      My first music score albums were Jaws, The Omen and Psycho; each with music cues that shocked the listener.

  • @wendywoodruff2871
    @wendywoodruff2871 18 днів тому +20

    Just a small note - The cop at the end who gives Norman a blanket is Ted Knight. He was the snooty country club judge in Caddyshack and a costar in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. 😊

    • @butkusfan23
      @butkusfan23 17 днів тому +1

      The one with the hat so bad it comes with a free bowl of soup

    • @cashflowhustles
      @cashflowhustles 17 днів тому +2

      Never knew that and I've watched Psycho probably dozens of times.

    • @hellohi821
      @hellohi821 17 днів тому

      @@butkusfan23 Well, it looks good on you, though! 😉

  • @hectorp885
    @hectorp885 18 днів тому +22

    " I'm gonna start cleaning my tub with a mop too!"

    • @user-fj4qp5eo5j
      @user-fj4qp5eo5j 17 днів тому +2

      Done it that way for years. Wet the mop, load it down with cleanser and scrub away. No bending, kneeling or stooping. I'm not a young man anymore, so this technique is the trick.

  • @hannahmoore9215
    @hannahmoore9215 19 днів тому +61

    "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."

  • @miked.7245
    @miked.7245 18 днів тому +20

    16:47 Yes…. Billy said that in Scream. Then he said “Anthony Perkins -Psycho”.

  • @denisemay6807
    @denisemay6807 18 днів тому +16

    Foreshadowing: “she’s as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.”

  • @helicoptersrkool
    @helicoptersrkool 19 днів тому +40

    I've seen this like 100 times and never get bored of this classic. The 2nd and 3rd sequel are well worth a watch and extremely underrated IMO

    • @erey214
      @erey214 18 днів тому +6

      The second one is my ish

    • @BertonMelch
      @BertonMelch 18 днів тому +3

      The 2nd one blew my mind. 😂

    • @erey214
      @erey214 18 днів тому +2

      @@BertonMelch yeah with 2 twists

    • @kennethmccullah4905
      @kennethmccullah4905 18 днів тому +2

      I love those sequels. Psycho 3 is great fun, the thing I love about Psycho 3 is Duane Duke. "Watch the guitar."

  • @dr.burtgummerfan439
    @dr.burtgummerfan439 18 днів тому +59

    Car designers 2024: "Small, lightweight seats are necessary reduce weight, improving performance and gas milage. "
    Car designers 1960: " Hey! How about front and rear sofa beds?"

    • @johnnehrich9601
      @johnnehrich9601 18 днів тому +5

      And their shock absorbers were weak so when the car came to a stop, it bounced up and down long enough to make you seasick.

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 18 днів тому +7

      @@johnnehrich9601 If your head didn't bounce back three times, you technically ran that stop sign. 😁

    • @JRSiebz
      @JRSiebz 18 днів тому +2

      Everything is a "light truck" now. So big is back.

    • @bobsylvester88
      @bobsylvester88 18 днів тому

      Gas was .31 cents a gallon in 1960. Equivalent to $3.23 today.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 17 днів тому

      @@johnnehrich9601 Yeah people had to replace shock absorbers a lot back then.

  • @ink-cow
    @ink-cow 18 днів тому +34

    Norman Bates was loosely based on real life ghoul Ed Gein. Like Bates, Gein was into taxidermy, but the reality was far far FAR more gruesome, too gruesome for a general movie audience in the 1960s. Gein made lampshades out of his victims, and you don't want to know what he really wore to keep the image of his mother alive.
    Later more gory slasher films were also inspired by Gein, particularly the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

    • @pauldurkee4764
      @pauldurkee4764 18 днів тому +4

      So it sounds like Gein was possibly the inspiration for buffalo bill in Silence of the Lambs.

    • @dabe1971
      @dabe1971 18 днів тому

      @@pauldurkee4764 Partly. Many serial killers were used as inspiration for Bill including Ted Bundy who used to fake injuries to attract help from some of his victims and Gary Heidnik who kept his victims in a pit in his basement. As for Norman, Robert Bloch had already written most of his original novel 'Psycho' when Gein was arrested. When the detail of his crimes were revealed and his own closeness to his mother established Bloch was shocked at how closely the character he invented was true to life but it was just co-incidental. Bloch did live quite close to the Gein farmstead too ! Must be something in the water around there !

    • @user-fj4qp5eo5j
      @user-fj4qp5eo5j 17 днів тому +2

      ​@@pauldurkee4764 He was.

    • @ink-cow
      @ink-cow 17 днів тому

      @@pauldurkee4764 Never seen Silence of the Lambs, but that's a good call. I read the Buffalo Bill character is a combination of Gein, Ted Bundy and another gruesome killer.

  • @boomzer10
    @boomzer10 18 днів тому +20

    Psycho 2 is arguably. just as good as the first Psycho movie. Anthony Perkins gave an amazing performance in that one too. And Psycho 3 and 4 are worth checking out too.

    • @rnw2739
      @rnw2739 18 днів тому +2

      Psycho II is better for me, far more rewatchable!

  • @freshsmilely
    @freshsmilely 18 днів тому +19

    60 years later and still good. Hitchcock is great and it shows why he is a legend in cinema.

  • @monicamaza5843
    @monicamaza5843 18 днів тому +19

    I like how J noticed all the Scream callbacks to this movie 👍

  • @wwk68tig
    @wwk68tig 17 днів тому +3

    So much has changed since 1960: It was scandalous to have a half-dressed, unmarried woman (!) alone in a room with a man.......AND.......this was the first time a toilet was flushed in a motion picture! The rest of the movie, obviously, was shocking by more conventional methods......even in 2024. Enjoyed the reaction, as usual. Thanks for sharing.

  • @everyonelovesmajima
    @everyonelovesmajima 18 днів тому +26

    Fun fact: First film to show a toilet flushing

    • @Bluesit32
      @Bluesit32 18 днів тому +9

      It was considered almost scandalous too.

    • @johnnehrich9601
      @johnnehrich9601 18 днів тому +3

      @@Bluesit32 Well, that is why they hadn't shown it before. The censorship during this era was very restrictive and only slowly eased up, as morals changed and also tv cut so deep into movie viewership that they had to make the movies more liberal. Hitchcock made the toilet flushing the torn-up paper as part of the story, so they basically had to leave it in.

    • @everyonelovesmajima
      @everyonelovesmajima 17 днів тому +3

      Well it’s from the book. There’s a documentary on here somewhere where they talk about it. Hitchcock told the writer that if he wanted it in, he could fight the MPAA about it. The MPAA never mentioned it because they kept insisting they saw nudity in the shower scene, despite the fact that Janet Leigh was never nude in the first place.

    • @tomoneill2973
      @tomoneill2973 16 днів тому

      ​@@everyonelovesmajima There IS nudity in the shower scene, but it isn't Janet Leigh: it's Marli Renfro-Leigh's stand-in.

    • @Gravydog316
      @Gravydog316 14 днів тому

      to show a toilet, period.
      the writer was like, "I want to show a toilet!"
      & Hitchcock told him it had to be part of the story,
      or it wouldn't be allowed

  • @BigGator5
    @BigGator5 19 днів тому +38

    "She needs ME. It's not as if she were a maniac, a raving thing. She just goes - a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?"
    "Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough."
    Fun Fact: This was the highest-grossing movie of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's career.
    Music Enthusiast Fact: The score is played entirely by stringed instruments. Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock was so pleased with the score written by Bernard Herrmann that he doubled the composer's salary.
    Up Close And Personal Fact: In order to implicate viewers as fellow voyeurs, Sir Alfred Hitchcock used a 50 mm lens on his 35 mm camera. This gives the closest approximation to the human vision. In the scenes where Norman (Anthony Perkins) is spying on Marion (Janet Leigh), this effect is felt.
    Subtle Visual Cues Fact: In the opening scene, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is wearing a white bra and has a white purse because Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted to show her as being angelic. After she has taken the money, the following scene has her in a black bra and black purse because now she has done something wrong and evil.

    • @danpoutsma1351
      @danpoutsma1351 19 днів тому +4

      Speaking of the word "Maniac', I would love to see J react to the original early 80s fillm!

    • @Jeff_Lichtman
      @Jeff_Lichtman 18 днів тому +3

      The score is so good that orchestras sometimes play it on its own, without the movie.

    • @sharonmarshall8648
      @sharonmarshall8648 17 днів тому +1

      Film theory

  • @wittleMermaid13
    @wittleMermaid13 17 днів тому +4

    HAHAHAHA!!! You did NOT choose PSYCHO for Mother's Day!?#@ Absolutely smashed that LIKE button so hard for this.

  • @davidw3281
    @davidw3281 18 днів тому +16

    The part where she’s driving and hearing all the voices is her imagining what they will say. Height of paranoia and anxiety.

  • @Raven5150
    @Raven5150 19 днів тому +18

    Jamie Lee's momma gets slashed this time

    • @hollycook5046
      @hollycook5046 19 днів тому +3

      No wonder she did those Halloween movies. Payback

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 18 днів тому +6

      ​@@hollycook5046A young Jamie Lee Curtis was considered for The Exorcist, but her mother declined due the language and content, so Jamie had to wait for Halloween to make her debut.

  • @Elerad
    @Elerad 18 днів тому +5

    The actor who plays the car salesman is John Anderson, a really excellent character actor with, as you said, a great voice, who pops up all over the place in memorable roles. Multiple appearances in The Twilight Zone, some excellent performances in MASH, and a fascinating turn in a third season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called The Survivors.

  • @Uncle-Charlie
    @Uncle-Charlie 18 днів тому +7

    Great job JL! Vera Miles who played the blonde in search of the other is still living she is 94!

  • @shakycam3
    @shakycam3 18 днів тому +48

    That wasn’t Norman that Sam was fighting with. It was Mrs Bates. Sam could absolutely overpower Mrs Bates.

    • @WaltBTB
      @WaltBTB 18 днів тому +7

      Exactly. It's one of the things that shows just how much the personality completely takes over the physical body.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 17 днів тому

      He still had his Norman clothes on

  • @S_047
    @S_047 19 днів тому +39

    What a classic.
    The brilliance of offing the biggest star in the first third of the movie .
    Hitchcock was a cinema madlad

  • @thelittlehobbit4698
    @thelittlehobbit4698 18 днів тому +8

    "Can't you ask yo mama to help you?"
    The mama IS helping... kinda

  • @womanonthinice1276
    @womanonthinice1276 18 днів тому +5

    "Rear Window" is excellent!

  • @BunnyGirl71
    @BunnyGirl71 18 днів тому +17

    I haven't even gotten to the movie yet, and I'm already loving the dark humor of having this movie serve as the "Mother's Day" movie. Ha ha! Okay, now to see the reaction...
    You know how Scream makes meta-references to the horror genre, and the woman who appears to be the star of the movie dies right away? That was a nod to this film. Having Marion Crane die in the middle of the movie was a twist that no one saw coming, and bucked the "formula" of the big murder happening at the end of the movie. I *loved* J's comment about how the music seems to know more than the audience does -- what a fantastic observation! The soundtrack was perfect for this film, which was intentionally shot in B+W, which was another break from the norms in 1960. Two other notable vanguard details: apparently this was the first movie that actually showed a toilet (yes really), and one of the first (if not the first) to show two unmarried adults together with the implication that they had just slept with each other.
    My mom saw this in a theater in 1960, when she was 18, on a date. At that climactic fruit cellar scene, her date screamed and he dove onto the movie theater floor. There was not a follow-up date after that. 😉

  • @macroman52
    @macroman52 17 днів тому +2

    Driver Ed in 1950s said to get out of the car on the passenger side to avoid stepping into passing traffic. Then it becomes a habit, until bucket seats made us get out on the dangerous side.

  • @maximillianosaben
    @maximillianosaben 19 днів тому +12

    This is what I'll be eating my dinner to. Not for some wierd reason, it's just timing.

  • @redviper6805
    @redviper6805 18 днів тому +10

    Other Hitchcock thrillers you must react to: Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Strangers On a Train, and North by Northwest.
    Also, WAIT UNTIL DARK and Charade. Both With Audrey Hepburn. Even though Hitchcock didn’t direct them he might as well have. The former has one of the top 10 scariest moments in film history

    • @jgarofalo8813
      @jgarofalo8813 18 днів тому +1

      Shadow of a Doubt is probably my favorite Hitchcock movie but I agree with Rear Window.

    • @rpg7287
      @rpg7287 18 днів тому

      Vertigo is his next best after Psycho.

  • @Kootie03
    @Kootie03 14 днів тому +1

    "The music sounds like it knows something you don't." Just excellent!

  • @tsogobauggi8721
    @tsogobauggi8721 17 днів тому +3

    38:46 "They are probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They'll see. They'll see, and they'll know, and they'll say: Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..." :)

  • @Raven5150
    @Raven5150 18 днів тому +8

    There's 100 things every man needs to know to survive one of em is never rent a room from a man named bates

  • @orlandoruizjr3834
    @orlandoruizjr3834 18 днів тому +5

    If you like Hitchcock, check out Rope, Dial 'M' For Murder, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, and of course The Birds.

  • @michiganjfrog366
    @michiganjfrog366 18 днів тому +11

    The bedroom jumpscare when she kills arbogast is probably the first really good one ever recorded on film.. for 1960 anyway.
    Also the "I wouldn't even harm a fly" is referenced in the Seed
    of Chucky... at the end.

    • @MsAppassionata
      @MsAppassionata 17 днів тому +1

      When I was a kid my mother had already seen “Psycho” and she told me about the shower scene. I kind of expected that (though I thought it would be later in the film), but the Arbogast scene on the stairs really scared the sh*t out of me, because she never told me about that one. 😂

  • @SuburbanSavage
    @SuburbanSavage 18 днів тому +7

    If you want to be truly horrified, please be aware that Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill (amongst others) are all based on ONE man.
    Ed Gein from Wisconsin.
    Mr. Gein was a painfully shy handyman in his home town, even beloved as a babysitter. However, he had been ruled by his domineering mother, a woman who had very strong ideas about relationships and religion. Spoiler alert: she was a bully to her sons, especially Ed. The other son was killed in an "accident" when the sons were younger men.
    Anyway, when she died, Ed boarded up her side of the farmhouse, essentially preserving it, but where he lived fell into squalor and filth. Ed liked to make his own decor, specifically with the body parts of women that he dug up from the cemetery. He would use skin for lampshades, skulls for bowls, a box of ladies genitalia, etc., in an attempt to make a female suit to wear to bring his mother "back."
    Ed only killed 2 women (it's up for debate if he killed his brother). One was a local barmaid and the other one was an older lady who worked at her family's store. The ONLY reason that he was visited by the police was because they had found a receipt with his name on it at the store and just thought it would be a lead, since Eddie was harmless to the community. Imagine their surprise when they walked into his barn and found a headless, dressed out corpse of the 2nd woman hanging from a beam in the barn.
    Ed spent the rest of his life in a mental institution. For a brief period his hone and belongings were a tourist destination, with people just taking his stuff until both the police and the townspeople put a stop to it.

  • @hollycook5046
    @hollycook5046 19 днів тому +9

    Ed Gein inspired so much craziness

  • @n.gerlach7334
    @n.gerlach7334 7 днів тому +1

    Variety, 2023: 'Psycho best movie ever made.'

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 19 днів тому +13

    Nice!
    The shower scene, as well as the shocking memorable twist ending, were on Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments

  • @misternef
    @misternef 17 днів тому +2

    Alfred Hitchcock was a man ahead of his time! He made some really stellar movies and reeled in some great talent! There used to be an Alfred Hitchcock building at Universal Studios Florida. They had recreated the set for the shower scene and reenacted it! They showed how Hitchcock used Hershey's Chocolate Syrup for blood because it had the perfect consistency to look realistic in black and white.

  • @harveybojangle475
    @harveybojangle475 18 днів тому +5

    Sam Loomis from Halloween was named after the character in Psycho. Carpenter and Debra Hill were both Hitchcock fans.

  • @fairydust-weepthewildwinds
    @fairydust-weepthewildwinds 18 днів тому +6

    JAY😆, I bought a push room from Home Depot to scrub my bathroom tub… I’m not bending to hurt my back… try a pushbroom it’s the best

    • @stevenandcarminabeedle9089
      @stevenandcarminabeedle9089 18 днів тому

      Oh the best scrub brushes! I use one to clean bird poop off the patio. Well, used. I got bird spikes 👍🏽

  • @mildredpierce4506
    @mildredpierce4506 17 днів тому +1

    I can’t believe our boy is just now watching psycho

  • @timd.3837
    @timd.3837 18 днів тому +5

    That you knew of Norman Bates (it's difficult not to) but not about him made this a really fun reaction to watch! Getting to watch the realization set in that Norman and Mother are one-in-the-same was an absolute priceless moment. One of the few reactions that takes me all the way back to the first time I watched the movie as a kid.

  • @americanmutt9089
    @americanmutt9089 14 днів тому +1

    Back when cars came with bench seats some people would get out of the car on the curbside to avoid opening the door and stepping out into traffic coming up from behind.

  • @ligeiaztomb2755
    @ligeiaztomb2755 18 днів тому +4

    In Halloween H20, Janet Leigh (Marion Crane in Psycho) who is Jamie Lee Curtis's mother in real life, played her secretary. You remember? She is driving the * exact same car* as in Paycho and she leaves and they play the music. (Go back and rewatch).
    Dr. Loomis, In Halloween and Billy Loomis in SCREAM are all references to Sam Loomis.
    Basically everything is a reference to this movie.
    Watch PSYCHO II. It is an AMAZING sequel. Anthony Perkins reprises his role as Norman. It is an underrated classic.

  • @jameskirschling7887
    @jameskirschling7887 18 днів тому +3

    I have seen the Bates Motel and the Bates House, that was about thirty years ago when I went to Universal Studios, California. They still looked creepy. Mother was still sitting in the window. Anthony Perkins did such a good job in this movie he was "typecast" and had a hard time getting roles. Watching this I realized for the first time, and I've seen this movie a few times, all the clues Norman gives when he's talking to Marion at dinner. J, please let us know how the mop works. Thank you.

  • @berndgeels
    @berndgeels 18 днів тому +2

    Jay, I absolutely love how when watching one of the greatest movies in American history one of your takeaways is a new idea for how to clean a bathtub! Priceless! When scraping the plate a mop is truly necessary. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Mr.Schitzengigglez
    @Mr.Schitzengigglez 18 днів тому +3

    Hitchcock was a genius.
    The lighting in this film, could never be pulled off, if it were in color.

    • @Mike-rk8px
      @Mike-rk8px 17 днів тому

      There was an exact remake done in 1998 that was done in color, but it wasn’t that good.

  • @jpkc86
    @jpkc86 8 днів тому +2

    You need to put 12 Angry Men on your list, the Private Detective from this is in it and it's one of the most timeless movies.. ever.

  • @jonbolton3376
    @jonbolton3376 17 днів тому

    When Billy used that quote in Scream, he followed it with 'Norman Bates, Psycho ' lol.

  • @lanzknecht8599
    @lanzknecht8599 17 днів тому +2

    In the shower scene the blade doesn´t even touch the victim´s body. The blood was chocolate sauce in reality. One advantage of black and white movies....

  • @Keedeeg
    @Keedeeg 18 днів тому +6

    I'm truly surprised that this is your first Hitchcock!! Oh, well .. Down the rabbit hole you go. I suggest "The Birds" next. I truly enjoy watching your reviews!! ❤

    • @ammaleslie509
      @ammaleslie509 17 днів тому

      Oh yeah ... You would like The Birds.

  • @lesliepeternell9563
    @lesliepeternell9563 18 днів тому

    “Bro, what the f*** are we gonna do for an hour?!?” absolutely took me out. 💀

  • @michaelhartsell6566
    @michaelhartsell6566 17 днів тому +1

    Every body use to slide across the cars bench seats, beats the hell out of walking around.

  • @torbnymublous4403
    @torbnymublous4403 18 днів тому +2

    Norman Bates is the modern day smeegle and his mama is precious to him.

  • @CandC68
    @CandC68 18 днів тому +2

    Janet Leigh - In 1980, she appeared alongside her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis in The Fog (1980), and later, in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
    Over the years, people who have watched this movie and recalled some of the scenes, remember and describe the shower scene in color. "The red blood washing down the drain."
    That is some impact from a B&W movie.

  • @ward1117
    @ward1117 15 днів тому +1

    This movie is a legend imo. Anthony Perkins was a talented actor ahead of his time.

  • @mildredpierce4506
    @mildredpierce4506 17 днів тому +1

    Back then, cars had bench seats in the front. This makes it easy to slide from the driver side to the passenger side with no problem. The detective driver side car was not damaged. That was just the way some people got out of the car.
    Back then, the gears were on the steering wheel and not in the middle of the car like they are now.

  • @tec52
    @tec52 15 днів тому +1

    You MUST watch come more Hitchcock films. I suggest "Notorious", "Vertigo", "Strangers on a Train", "Dial M for Murder", "The Birds", "North by Northwest", "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "Rear Window".

  • @KajunMoo70
    @KajunMoo70 18 днів тому +5

    Regarding your statement that Arbogast’s driver side door must be broken due to him always sliding over to exit on the passenger side but back during the 40s and 50s this was how many people got out of their cars. Don’t know why but in many tv shows and movies I’ve seen it done that way.

    • @johnnehrich9601
      @johnnehrich9601 18 днів тому +1

      I'm not sure if the transmission was different or the car sat higher (I think the second), but there was no lump running lengthwise down the car. So it was easy to just slide across. (Cars of the '50's were BOATS!)

    • @Deathbird_Mitch
      @Deathbird_Mitch 18 днів тому +3

      It's a safety thing. That is the curb side. You were actually required to enter and exit through the passenger side on your road test back then. I think that ended in the 70s or 80s.

    • @KajunMoo70
      @KajunMoo70 18 днів тому

      @@johnnehrich9601 thank you for explaining it! I just knew I saw that in older movies and shows but never understood why🤭

  • @angelavalentino5146
    @angelavalentino5146 15 днів тому +1

    This movie was revolutionary in being the first to show a woman in a bra and slip. 1960 was just the infancy of Mental Illness being treated like a disease, the term “Psycho” would have been a novelty.
    ALL of Hitchcock’s movie carry a lot of suspense. He also had a tv show called “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, with some very memorable stories.

  • @maximillianosaben
    @maximillianosaben 18 днів тому +1

    Behind the scenes, the sounds they used of her being stabbed in the shower were achieved by stabbing a cantaloupe.

  • @rocknroller77
    @rocknroller77 18 днів тому +5

    Anthony Perkins's ex-wife died in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center. One of their sons played the "weird," nice, quiet guy in law school in Legally Blonde

    • @reservoirdude92
      @reservoirdude92 18 днів тому +2

      Oz Perkins is a solid director as well. He's got a serial killer film starring Nicolas Cage called 'Longlegs' coming this year, and it looks TERRIFYING. Not jump scare terrifying but unsettling and grim.

    • @stevenandcarminabeedle9089
      @stevenandcarminabeedle9089 18 днів тому

      The deworming orphans guy?? I liked him in that.

    • @rocknroller77
      @rocknroller77 18 днів тому

      ​@@reservoirdude92 sounds good. Thanks for the heads up👍

  • @AndyMakesPlaylists
    @AndyMakesPlaylists 17 днів тому +1

    Funny, good reaction. Hitchcock had been making color movies for a decade but WANTED this to be in black and white because it worked better. The next Hitchcocks to watch are Vertigo and North by Northwest (both in color), but there are MANY great ones.

  • @ForeignMovieLover101
    @ForeignMovieLover101 18 днів тому +1

    Alfred Hitchcock is a revolutionary filmmaker. Marnie is another good film of his as well!

  • @CharitaHuggs
    @CharitaHuggs 19 днів тому +4

    Awwww I love that you love ZZAVID! it be you, Zzavid, chuzuus, and Amanda for me….plus mr. Video and Alex Hefner. Y’all take up so much of my time

  • @Gruzbee
    @Gruzbee 18 днів тому +1

    And now you must put Psycho II in rotation. It's a true and well thought out sequel that manages to expand on the lore of the first film; taking place something like, 22 years later. It isn't Hitch levels of masterful, but it's damn well written and directed, and acted.

  • @carolebuckle7977
    @carolebuckle7977 12 днів тому +1

    Hitchcock was a GOAT director 🇬🇧👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥❤️

  • @Jax2113
    @Jax2113 18 днів тому +1

    Lmfao ok so as someone who mops their bathtub make sure that you get a good sponge mop! Them string mops ain't gone do shit 😂

  • @danjohnson2986
    @danjohnson2986 17 днів тому +1

    Little known fact. Ted Knight (of Mary Tyler Moore and Caddyshack fame is the guard at the very end that walks him into the last room to wait for interrogation. Where he “wouldn’t even hurt a fly”

  • @alberthart4146
    @alberthart4146 18 днів тому +8

    As a pit fighter of 30+ years, i would agree with you about crazy. However, when Norman knocked out Sam, Norman was Norman. When Sam stopped Norman, Norman was his mother. While crazy is unpredictable to fight, men can still overpower women in any state of mind. Hence why Norman didn't put up much of a fight while being his mother

  • @Bluesit32
    @Bluesit32 18 днів тому +2

    That looks of Anthony Perkins's face at the end is creepy as hell. Later in the 90s, Vince Vaughn tried to make that face. Did not work.

  • @BertonMelch
    @BertonMelch 18 днів тому +2

    What’s crazier is that psycho 2 is even better ❤

    • @JohnSmith-fm3pn
      @JohnSmith-fm3pn 18 днів тому +1

      It bounces you back and forth so well questioning if Norman's crazy or not crazy . Are these things even really happening ? And it doesn't end leaving you wondering . You get the answer with another nice twist ending

    • @rnw2739
      @rnw2739 18 днів тому +2

      100%

  • @garybrockie6327
    @garybrockie6327 18 днів тому +2

    Ok, this movie was made in black and white to basically get past the censors. In 1960, even in black and white this was movie struggled to get past the censors for release. Hitchcock made his first color film in 1948 (Rope), 12 years earlier.
    Alfred Hitchcock is one of the best film directors of all time. His is referred to as the Master of Suspense. He made 54 feature films in his long career and it is very hard to name even a top five for fans without disagreeing because he has made so many good ones.
    my recommendations;
    1963 The Birds
    1959 North by Northwest (The James Bond people borrowed heavily from this film.)
    1958 Vertigo (on many best film lists)
    1955 The Trouble With Harry (An inconvenient corpse)
    1954 To Catch a Thief (Style, Sophistication, suspense, romance, and humor)
    1954 Rear Window (don’t miss this one)
    1953 Dial M for Murder
    1951 Strangers on a Train (strangers swap murders?)
    1948 Rope (Two men murder a friend and then have a party with his corpse in the room)
    1946 Notorious (Twisted spy tale, terrific cast.)
    1943 Shadow of a Doubt (what if you discover your favorite uncle is a serial killer?)
    1940 Rebecca (Hitchcock’s first American film, won Oscar for Best Picture)

  • @hippiechic6772
    @hippiechic6772 18 днів тому +1

    JL You are right about Norman . Norman would have over powered Sam with a can of Whoop A## in a minutes . It did not take Norman long to knock Sam out in the office so he would have easily over powered him . I like your reactions and comments for Psycho a lot . The bonus is that the Marion character was in real life Jamie Lee Curtis Mom.... this movie is a classic . Thank you for this treat . Thank you very much

  • @MonsieurBooyah
    @MonsieurBooyah 18 днів тому +2

    fun fact: this movie is one of the first to have dedicated start times. people used to be able to just walk in and out of cinemas with the films constantly repeating. hitchcock had to tell cinema managers to not let people in after the start of the film to not spoil the ending

  • @ididthisonpulpous6526
    @ididthisonpulpous6526 18 днів тому +1

    "Hi I'm Norman Bates and I have a life hack for you all! Mopping. Bathtubs! First let's say you recently had a house guest that left a bit of a mess..."
    Love the reaction!

  • @davidgagnon3781
    @davidgagnon3781 11 днів тому

    TRIVIA: The scene in Pulp Fiction where Marcellus Wallace is crossing the street and he sees Butch was inspired by the scene where this girl's boss is crossing the street and sees her.

  • @tylerlucas3752
    @tylerlucas3752 18 днів тому +2

    Hey J, do you recognize the car Janet Leigh is driving?
    You commented on how you liked it when you saw it in Halloween H2O haha.

  • @lennygriffin1149
    @lennygriffin1149 6 днів тому

    Psycho Ii. is an underrated sequel that takes place 22 years after this one where Norman is released from the psychiatric hospital and tries to start his life over. But some people just don’t believe that he’s rehabilitated.
    Psycho III is also good and
    Psycho IV: The Beginning is obviously a prequel.

  • @dglmlv
    @dglmlv 18 днів тому +5

    Now you have to watch Psycho 2, 3 and 4 the beginning... Great reaction!

    • @erey214
      @erey214 18 днів тому +1

      2 is my favorite

    • @rnw2739
      @rnw2739 18 днів тому

      ​@@erey214Mine too, it's fantastic!

  • @danielfardella1622
    @danielfardella1622 18 днів тому +1

    I'm surprised how many people never saw this movie. It's a classic, and Hitch did a scary job.

  • @cowabungakumquat2825
    @cowabungakumquat2825 19 днів тому +3

    You need to watch Psycho 2! It's just as good as the original

  • @ronp1903
    @ronp1903 15 днів тому +1

    Really? I've been cleaning my shower/tub with a sponge mop for years! Just spray it with tub and tile cleaner, wait a few minutes, and go to town! Plus its easy to squeeze out when you're done. 👍 And may I suggest checking out the Alfred Hitchcock classics, "Rear Window", "The Birds", "Frenzy", etc. You won't be disappointed! Thanks for another great reaction, we'll see you soon! 🎥🍿👍

  • @Sirala6
    @Sirala6 18 днів тому +1

    Well done! Hitchcock revisted a lot of this material in "Frenzy." Also "Rear Window" a thriller but not horror, check out more of Hitch.

  • @jerellbond6228
    @jerellbond6228 18 днів тому +1

    The way I kept laughing when you said..why are THEY yelling like that

  • @andrewreiber7691
    @andrewreiber7691 17 днів тому

    “As a shorty, playing in the front yard in a crib. Fell down and I bumped my head. Somebody helped me up and asked me if I bumped my head. I said “yea”. Then they said, “so that means you gon, you goin to switch it on em”.

  • @jgarofalo8813
    @jgarofalo8813 18 днів тому +1

    Oh I forgot to add but next year do Mommie Dearest for Mother’s Day! Your reaction to that cult classic would be priceless!

  • @amberaustin3243
    @amberaustin3243 16 днів тому +1

    She was so beautiful and he was so handsome in this movie. I have been to Universal Studios Hollywood and seen that house. And he totally smiling when the car goes down.💀

  • @horrorjunkiehayne
    @horrorjunkiehayne 18 днів тому +1

    Janet Leigh and her daughter (Jamie Lee Curtis) both have such iconic places in horror history.

  • @Airihi
    @Airihi 18 днів тому +1

    Anthony Perkins was such a talented actor

  • @glen1ster
    @glen1ster 17 днів тому

    3:39--the woman standing is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Pat
    Janet Leigh was married to Tony Curtis
    22:22--it's usually not mentioned, but that swamp water is awfully dark to hide a car in shallow water.