PSYCHO (1960) Movie Reaction! ☾ FIRST TIME WATCHING

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[@jimmygreer6172]

"He seems so sweet though" Yes, so sweet he wouldn't even harm a fly.

[@branphillips9546]

Norman is a very nice boy, his mother on the other hand is a psycho, but then we all go a little mad sometimes.

[@richardbremner1284]

No, he might swat a fly, his mother is so sweet that she won't hurt a fly

[@JonathonTheAsshole]

SHE

[@fynnthefox9078]

The point.

[@bartellender6782]

Mother approves of your comment.

[@guillermorosalesgonzalez1308]

I've become addicted to watching first-time reactions to "Psycho". It's fascinating to see the genuine shock at every plot twist. Also every single person finds Norman sweet at first and then they're like WAIT.

[@user-kv2tj4du8p]

I am kind of in this same phase right now. I love seeing people respond to this film. it is one of my favorite films of all time, and I never get sick of seeing people go through the experience of PSYCHO. it is so expertly done. truly a masterpiece of its kind. and the acting always knocks me out. thanks for posting!

[@Pixelologist]

"At least he can't see you in the shower so that's good." Ummm, yeah, about that....... 😨

[@georgemartin1436]

Anthony Perkins did some very funny commercials where his mother was directing him what to say from off stage..."I TOLD them that, MOTHER"...

[@Wawagirl17]

Holy shit, I need to see those!

[@stevemd6488]

My sister in law said this movie wrecked his career because Hollywood could never cast him as anything but Norman Bates. Don't know if that's true but interesting.

[@sparky6086]

Anthony Perkins was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the 1955 movie "Friendly Persuasion" and had played the lead in some movies before "Psycho". Because of his looks and height, Hollywood thought, that they had their replacement for Gary Cooper, but there was something about him, that they couldn't quite put their finger on, that held him back from being a classic leading man. He'd starred as a mentally unstable baseball player in the 1957 "Fear Strikes Out", and he pulled off that role quite well, so apparently that intangible thing, was the subtle air of creepiness about him. This ended up making Perkins perfect for the role of Norman Bates. He nailed the role so well, that he was typecast, but Hollywood had already begun to think of relegating him to only supporting roles, if not specifically character roles. It is possible to blame" Psycho" for holding back his career, but in my opinion, it gave his career a boost at a time, when it was on the verge of a downward slide. "Psycho" made him a legendary star. For many years, Perkins felt bad, that he didn't get varied roles, as he may have wanted, but finally, he realized, that most actors never have a single role in their entire career, that they did so well, that audiences couldn't imagine anyone else playing that role, so he began to appreciate and embrace his role in "Psycho". In the '70's, Anthony Perkins starred opposite Diana Ross as a high fashion photographer obsessed with a model played by Ross, in the movie, "Mahogany". . He got a lot of acclaim for that movie. It was likely his most famous role other than Norman Bates. Of course, his roll as an "obsessed" photographer keeps with the theme of his characters being a bit "off" in the head.

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

@@sparky6086 Perkins was also in the failed Disney film the Black Hole, which was Disney's attempt to cash in on the sci-fi film craze after Star Wars was so successful. His role was suppose to be a bit bigger, but much of it got cut due to all of the huge issues with the film.

[@PungiFungi]

@@sparky6086 , another thing that may have held him back was that he was also gay and probably give that "something about him" vibes you touched on. He was not rugged like Cary Grant or Tab Hunter and by all accounts, Perkins appeared not interested in appearing in public with a woman like Tab Hunter did. It was almost like don't ask don't tell but we all know.

[@snake0911]

"he's so sweet", "he is so nice", "I like him"...funny how wrong we can be judging the 1st impressions of others.

[@Centane]

trueee

[@fynnthefox9078]

Not necessarily. HALF of him is sweet, nice and likable.

[@RobinHood-cd9mh]

@@fynnthefox9078 that half still enjoys stuffing birds and burying bodies

[@ambermeanswell]

I still feel that way about him though..

[@mars-jr5uu]

@@Centanehii 😊

[@kenehlears7716]

A couple of B&W classics you might like "Casablanca and "to kill a mocking bird"both are simply wonderful

[@blueroninstudios]

Dont forget about 12 Angry Men.

[@mattp6089]

@@blueroninstudios It's a Wonderful Life.

[@PungiFungi]

Some Bette Davis / Joan Crawford movies like Marked Woman, All About Eve, Mildred Pierce.

[@user-kv2tj4du8p]

yes!! two greats from Hollywood!

[@wellfit1511]

It came out in 1960, audience’s had never seen anything like it. Scared the shit out of people

[@mikell5087]

Psycho laid the blueprint for the modern slasher movie.

[@craigvard1639]

This film more than able to scare the shit out of people even now.

[@jamesbattista1466]

As did 1974’s The Exorcist

[@ciceroskip1]

I was 10 yrs old when it came out. I went to see it with my grandmother. Sitting in a dark theater really adds to the "scared the shit out of me"

[@fynnthefox9078]

Hitchcock even had the audience locked in the theater!

[@joebloggs396]

I kind of like how you have some sympathy for his condition rather than only looking at him as a monster.

[@lukeskywalker6809]

He’ not a monster. He is ill: DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder.

[@ktown64]

"Vertigo" and "Rear Window" are a couple more Alfred Hitchcock movies to see

[@starry2006]

Vertigo particularly, and The Thirty Steps is an earlier classic. Rear Window has had so many reactions already and is more straightforward with less to work out.

[@mattp6089]

Rear Window is Hitchcock's finest in my opinion. I also really love Vertigo, Psycho, Rope, Strangers On a Train, North by Northwest.

[@alexanderhagmanwilberg640]

Yes, I think Rear Window is his greatest as well 😁👍

[@rollomaughfling380]

Yes! These two!

[@chrisdaily2077]

Honestly any Hitchcock film before 1961 is excellent.

[@MikeWood]

I really like that you pretty much figured it out, then discarded the theory. Then were surprised by the ending. Lots of old great movies to watch. Not just in Spooktober. :)

[@SaRENRampaiger]

I love how you ALMOST got it right about Norman being the killer then later you saw his "mom" kill the detective and you're like, "OK IT WASN'T HIM IT'S MOM!!!" Priceless analysis! lol.

[@theshadowwalker9672]

And then she saw Norman carrying 'mother' which really threw her off.

[@TrashPandaActual]

Kamilla: "I think this is my first black and white movie." Me: [cries softly in noir]

[@Centane]

I SAW SCHINDLERS LIST I LIED 🥺

[@ixwizzlexi9784]

@@Centane But there was a girl in a red dress in that :) jk

[@Bfdidc]

This movie was partially based on a real murderer from the 1950s, a man named Ed Gein. His story is even more disturbing than the movie.

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

6:44 And a rough calculation is that $40,000 back then would be something like $360,000 today.

[@paulieluppino1856]

-Tom Cruise: SHOOOOW ME THE MONEEEEEEEY!!!!!

[@jimmyj5035]

Exactly! But the buying power was even greater than inflation calculators show. For example $1 could buy you several gallons of gasoline. 50 cents could buy you a large cheeseburger, fries and a milkshake...

[@Gabriel_Moline]

And wages have gone up a whole ten percent! Yay!

[@ta1920]

I wish i could win that much money in the lottery, i could finally move away from my parents house. Oh to dream.

[@JSPokemonYT]

When I first watched this movie for my college film class, I was blown away by how phenomenal this movie was & since then Psycho (1960) has now become my favorite movie of all time!

[@antkemp]

I love that you’re reacting to a older film. Most reaction channels don’t do this that often

[@diha2271]

"12 angry men" please next

[@frankducky6130]

I would love to see her reaction to Sunset Blvd. It's also a good movie to watch around this time of year.

[@sunsetter3796]

Almost every reaction channel that I follow has reacted to Psycho and other old movies like 12 Angry Men and other classics..

[@mikell5087]

@@sunsetter3796 Yes, but still no one has done "Arsenic and Old Lace" - well one person has, but she is not a reactor. Really want one of my favorite reactors to do that one, and it is a Halloween movie.

[@fynnthefox9078]

Or they do it, only to shit all over them.

[@paulobrien9572]

Marion (Janet Leigh) is the mother of horror scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween). My sister's married name is Bates they named their dog Norman

[@dipsydoodle7988]

If your last name is Bates, it's almost a requirement to have a Norman somewhere in your family. Glad it was the dog and not a son tho. 😂

[@celestemcallister1307]

Tony Curtis was Jamie Liegh's handsome dad..

[@SaRENRampaiger]

@@dipsydoodle7988 aND HE Master Bates while peeping a lady in the next room in that tiny hole wall! ;)

[@dipsydoodle7988]

@@SaRENRampaiger 😅

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

A young Jamie Lee Curtis was considered for the role of Regan in The Exorcist, but her mother objected to the extreme content and declined.

[@nathankrush3289]

The television show " Bates Motel" is an amazing explanation of how Norman AND Norma Bates became how they were. The acting is first class.

[@encrypter46]

Don't miss "The Bad Seed" , the original from 1956. I doubt that anyone who's seen it has ever forgotten it.

[@ThomasKnip]

"He was pretending to be his own mother" - what a funny notion. How would you come up with stuff like that, young lady? 😄

[@blueroninstudios]

Beginning: Oh my god, Bates's mother is a PSYCHO! Ending: HOLD UP! WAITAMINIT! lol

[@noirgatherer]

Hitchcock was a brilliant director.

[@hurricane1951]

The shock of seeing Marion killed off so early was intense in 1960, as Janet Leigh was a huge star. She was the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis.

[@darkwitnesslxx]

At the time this was filmed, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis were one of the major Hollywood power couples.

[@rask004]

The scene in the room with the stuffed birds, not only was it meant to have a creepy setup, but an often missed detail is that the birds are predators, and when Norman speaks in a more aggressive or off tone, we see the birds in the background, in poses suggesting they are about to attack...

[@PungiFungi]

Marion's surname, Crane, is a bird. All those birds in the office were purely intentional.

[@MsAppassionata]

@@PungiFungiAnd she came from Phoenix, Arizona. The picture on the wall when he goes to get rid of the body was of a bird.

[@MrMousley]

.. and then Hitchcock's next film was THE BIRDS.

[@johnmuse6626]

This was a major ground breaking film. Probably part of what let you guess at Norman being the killer is from the movie being copied a lot. It's one of the few movies ever though, that spends half the film building a story for a character and then just suddenly kills her out of the blue, causing the whole film to shift direction. No worries about lighting or coughs or anything. Just glad to see a new reaction from you. You rock!

[@Perebynis]

"Was it because she wanted to leave?" - Nope, it was because she entered. "Psycho" remains a masterpiece of psychological horror, to this day.

[@tremorsfan]

This movie is so ingrained in popular culture, it's amazing that there are people who still don't know the twist. You should watch Soylent Green.

[@gluuuuue]

"I think it was him.." You weren't wrong..! XD

[@liduck52]

In 1960 I was 8 and my dad took me to see The Lost World. During the movie a woman in front of us said to her friend " I wish we had gone to see Psycho". I thought "Why? This is good".

[@tcsam73]

You should watch "Rear Window" with Jimmy Stewart. It's one of the best Hitchcock moves.

[@magus104]

FYI $40,000 in 1960 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $370,689.19 today. Thanks google

[@seanmikhael1767]

"This movie is so weird." Guy from State Farm commercial: "We'll it's called 'Psycho', so..."

[@leonwalls5064]

Here's a bit of trivia, The actress who plays Marion's office co-worker is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter.

[@casesoutherland4175]

Watching people react to the big twist of Psycho is one of my absolute favorite hobbies!

[@frankducky6130]

And you are right, Norman Bates is one of the creepiest characters to ever appear in a movie.

[@joecarr5412]

Psycho is the First Movie to ever have a Toilet Bowl shown on screen.

[@maxtew6521]

"You can't buy off unhappiness with pills." The hibernating addict in me begs to differ.

[@victornewmanforever]

You should also watch Psycho 2 made in 1983. We follow Norman Bates as he's released from prison and comes back to the motel. Richard Franklin, a student of Hitchcock, directed it. It was written by Tom Holland, who did Child's Play and Fright Night.

[@justindenney-hall5875]

victornewmanforever I second that, I think it's one of the best horror sequels.

[@rnw2739]

I third that! In fact I watch 'Psycho II' more than the original!

[@SaRENRampaiger]

The sequel is just as good.. And the twist gets crazier!!

[@gettygermany]

"He seems very sweet, tho"

[@openfor45]

Psycho is an Alfred Hitchcock directed film. For another movie great he directed is 'The Birds' - 1963. A nature horror film, ideal for Spooktober!!

[@douglasostrander5072]

This is Jamie's mom. Her dad was Tony. True legends.

[@timreno72]

In High School I took a course called Cinema and we studied Hitchcock films. One of Hitchcock's tricks was the use of color (later films) as clues. The other was what direction the camera would pan. In this film it was always counter clock wise. You'll notice even the water drains down the sink in the wrong direction; counter clock wise.

[@davidmeir9348]

This movie and Peeping Tom (also from 1960) are those that really made the blueprint in the developpement of the slasher genre that would come a decade and a half, two decades later. Since you're in October, watch The Birds by Hitchcock, maybe the closest he's been to horror (along with Psycho). There are some scenes, almost 60 years later that are truly unsettling.

[@diha2271]

Peeping Tom is good movie. Unfortunately the director as far as I know was "cancelled" after that movie because of mindset of that time...

[@davidmeir9348]

@@diha2271 Indeed and that's sad because it's a great movie Maybe one of the first to use the killer's pov shot of the killing. Camera technique that became a staple of the slasher and later, horror at large.

[@zedwpd]

$40k back then is about $380K now. The girl taking the tranquillizers is Alfred Hitchcock's real daughter. The toilet flush is the first one ever in cinema history. Most reactors get it and say they didnt need the large exposition at the end. But for some, like yourself and me too, it helps.

[@stevedyches4635]

A good comprehension of psychological afflictions is not common knowledge today, even less so at the time of this movie which is probably why they thought it should be explained.

[@martinduften9429]

After seeing this movie for the first time as a kid, I had to lock the bathroom door when I took a shower afterwards.

[@195511SM]

I bought a CD of the soundtrack about 20 years ago. The entire thing was composed by Bernard Hermann....& all written for strings. Violins, bass....etc. It sounds really good on its own without the movie. I've heard that Hitchcock used him, because it would save on costs of hiring a full orchestra.

[@greyinvader]

You're clutching a Leatherface doll while watching Psycho. The irony of that is that both Norman Bates and Leatherface are based on a real serial killer named Ed Gein.

[@george217]

"You eat like a bird" is kind of an insult. Some birds eat about three times their weight every day...

[@oxhine]

Hey, Centane! I'm glad that you appreciated the black-and-white cinematography, the pacing and the characterization. All that is lost on many young viewers who seem incapable of mentally shifting into the styles of different film eras. I hope you caught the Hitchcock cameo. He inserted himself into all his movies the way Stan Lee did with Marvel films. The other secretary who worked with Marion was Hitchcock's daughter, Patricia! Janet Leigh was a well-known actress. Hitchcock starts the movie with her story allowing the audience to believe the film was about her. Suddenly, she is shockingly killed in a scene that made people terrified to take showers for decades! Murder was not often explicitly shown and having a top-billed actress die within the first twenty minutes was wholly unexpected! The first "Scream" used the same trick by killing off Drew Barrymore in the opening scene. Norman's mental illness, the transvestism, the toilet use, the explicit murder, a heroine engaged in larceny and adultery were all shocking! The scene with the shrink explaining things at the end is included to reassure the rattled audience unfamiliar with tropes that are commonplace now. In the age of torture-porn, this movie seems very tame. In actuality, it was cutting-edge and hugely influential as well as a master class in misdirection and suspense. Janet Leigh is Jamie Lee Curtis' mother. Tony Curtis is her father. The blood circling the drain transitioning to the close-up of Marion's eye is an artful way of showing her life draining away. The Bernard Herrmann score is iconic. Hitchcock used him frequently. Anthony Perkins left such an indelible impression, he forever became associated with Norman Bates. As with all typecasting, it was a blessing and a curse. Perhaps you didn't notice but the killer's silhouetted form during the shower scene had a female hairstyle pulled back into a bun. It wasn't Norman's male haircut because he was in a wig. There are sequels but they are worthless. Gus Van Sant re-made "Psycho" shot-for-shot in color in 1998 but the original was somehow superior despite excellent casting that included Viggo Mortensen in the John Gavin role.

[@TheRscorp]

If you consider this movie is over 60 years old now it's a pretty remarkable film if you can judge it in that context. And I love movies that are more story driven rather than special effects / CGI or just the gore and jump scares. This isn't one of my favorites but I definitely respect it for what it is and the influence it had on culture.

[@derf-vr1fc]

You just saw a Alfred Hitchcock classic. He is a master of suspense

[@romamazza5881]

I was 2 years old when this movie came out. I'm 64 now. I first saw it when I was 15

[@robertjewell9727]

My friend Dorothy's father did the music for this film. It's very memorable.Rest well.

[@samhain1894]

Her dad is Bernard Hermann? Awesome. Hitchcock loved his score. Wait…so her mom is Lucille Fletcher!?? Double awesome!!!

[@robertjewell9727]

@@samhain1894 yes, Lucille is,Dorothy's mom. And Dorothy and I have a town in common called Oxford in Maryland where she and her mom and sister lived for several years and where my family sailed in the summers when I was a child and I revisited Oxford almost 2 years ago and found two of Lucille's novels at a local bookstore called Mystery Loves Company, both autographed. Dorothy was really delighted about that.

[@samhain1894]

@@robertjewell9727 wow that’s great. Her parents were super talented people. I hope Dorothy inherited some of their talent 🙂

[@robertjewell9727]

She is very talented and bright.

[@ronaldproctor9454]

What Inspired Hitchcock to make this movie was a real case involving Ed Gein who in 1954 was captured by police Gein was a cross dressing, cannibal, who also had relations with corpses (back then it was not uncommon for a person to be buried without being embalmed in case you are wondering how he did not die) Gein was declared totally insane because he thought by doing that he would bring back his mother whom had died in 1944. Oh by the way 40,000 in cash in 1960 in todays money would be about 450,000 roughly when compared to the cost of things back then and now. and that is the thing about Hitchcock's movies ...he loves to throw one off guard most of his movies have an ending that one does not expect that is what make them so good to watch they will leave you on the edge trying to figure out what is going to happen next. Back then special effects were much more limited and a good story was more important and Hitchcock was considered the best story teller in the movie making world. many people debate who is the best film maker and a lot of times it is between Spielberg and Hitchcock me personally I look at it this way each men were the best in their era Spielberg from the 70s to today and Hitchcock from the 30s to the 70s.

[@marcquestenberg8385]

The Haunting (1963) also an absolute horror classic. It was based on the novel "The Haunting of Hill House". you will like it.

[@marcquestenberg8385]

by the way, it is also a bw film in my memory, so shadows and darkness become even more threatening

[@lifelover515]

@@marcquestenberg8385 I'm a big fan of this movie, too. It scared me senseless but I was only 14 at the time. Hard to believe it's by the same director as 'The Sound of Music" (Robert Wise). It's all achieved by shadows and suggestion. The remake is not 'haunting' at all. Absolutely recommended for Centane.

[@frankducky6130]

@@lifelover515 I love this movie too. It has great atmosphere. Robert Wise was an awesome director, also did West Side Story.

[@marcquestenberg8385]

@@lifelover515 I also saw the movie as a kid and absolutely loved it. How with sounds , music, darkness and shadows a threatening mood is built.

[@rickc661]

First B & W - starting at the very top, and there are a lot of excel 'old' flicks that will never fade. the A.Perkins movie before this is also VERY testing to watch > 'On the Beach '

[@DirtyDayMix]

A truly classic masterpiece!

[@davidlionheart2438]

It's actually rather awe inspiring just how amazingly little you comprehend from dialogue and situation.....or even when it's straight out being explained to you. That's got to be some kind of gift. Seriously.

[@DylansPen]

You figured it out Kamilla, very good. Psycho was one of the first 'slasher' type movies and for it's time it was pretty vicious. The whole mental side of it is one of Hitchcock's things, he likes thrillers and suspense. Glad you watched it, there are many black and white films that are as good as films get. 12 Angry Men from 1957 is another though not a Spooktober type of movie.

[@SRG1966]

The sequel is well worth your time. This changed the horror genre forever. Prior to this, the villains were vampires or aliens or mummies or whatever. Psycho showed us that the ultimate monster is within. BTW that's Jamie Lee Curtis's mom, making them the only mother-daughter scream queens in iconic horror films.

[@misterb6416]

Yup, I was born in 1963, I can remember that people were always dressed nice, every day. Even for diner at home. My sisters and I couldn't come to the dinner table unless we were dressed correctly, our hair combed and of course clean. We couldn't leave the table unless we were excused from the table.

[@handsomestik]

Perkins deserved an Oscar in this

[@user-gu9pb5iy8n]

It makes me alarmed at how many of the women reacting to this movie are always so trusting by saying 'how sweet Norman is'.

[@leewinstead917]

If this is your first B&W movie it’s a good way to start though there are many great old movies

[@user-gy5cx5db2i]

its amazing how brilliant hitchcock was at playing with people's emotions- its like in the scene where norman watches marion thru the peep hole which he has obviously used many times before but at no time does anybody consider the possibility that norman is the murderer

[@jd-zr3vk]

"He seems so sweet." LOL Theatres did not seat anyone after the movie started and audiences were asked to not tell about her death or the ending.

[@spagerrhowtaf8673]

Hitchcock was masterful. He placed you in Marion's shoes and very soon after the shock of her death when Norman saw the car stop sinking you were like "oh oh", and he had you in Norman's shoes.

[@Minion_of_Cthulhu]

I know you like to read, so you might enjoy the novel Psycho by Robert Bloch, which the movie was based on. It's considered one of the most influential horror novels of the 20th century.

[@stephenphillps3250]

Highly recommend other Alfred Hitchcock films. his other movies are a little different than this one. more like mistaken Identity and murder mysteries.

[@michaelstallings5824]

this movie had so many great character actors of the 50's and 60's, from her boss, to the cop,and the used car salesman

[@Madbandit77]

Vaughn Taylor, who played the boss, played a paraplegic crime boss in the noir film "The Lineup" while John Anderson, the car salesman, played Angus MacGyver's grandfather on the original "MacGyver" TV series. Mort Mills, who played the highway patrol cop, did a lot of TV, including the original "Perry Mason" TV series.

[@michaelstallings5824]

@@Madbandit77 and they all played character parts in the many tv westerns of the time.

[@dcmslife3772]

I get such Unsolved Mysteries vibes from the used car salesman. He sounds so much like Robert Stack it's scary! Fun Fact: The blood in the shower scene is chocolate. Fun Fact: This is the first film to feature a flushing toilet.

[@JamesASharp]

This horror film is a classic, and way ahead of it's time. It's not scary to me because, well, it's dated. But, the screenplay, acting, and the execution of the story and directing is timeless. Great reaction. 👍

[@SJHD]

I dont think i would have ever watched this movie, but you are here so dammit im here too! Great to have you back beautiful :)

[@richardb6260]

Janet Leigh's lover is played by John Gavin. He screen tested for the role of James Bond when George Lazenby decided to quit after one movie. The producers were going to give the role to Gavin for "Diamonds Are Forever" until Sean Connery decided to return for a payment over $1 million. If you want to try some other older films, try the original "The Haunting" or the thriller "Night of the Hunter".

[@charlest.velten6983]

Janet Leigh, was one of the great Hollywood beauties of the last century !

[@frankducky6130]

I'm not surprised everyone was flirting with Janet Leight, she was gorgeous! :)

[@rhwinner]

The girl having sex is always the first to die - Psycho started that tradition for almost every slasher flick ever since....

[@stevedyches4635]

That's not what happened here in this movie though.

[@rhwinner]

@@stevedyches4635 think about it...

[@starry2006]

Vertigo is another great Hitchcock, considered one of the best films ever. It's also a mystery suspense.

[@mikell5087]

Yes and psychological thriller.

[@rangeljrjess]

A classic! Where it all started.

[@mred20]

I wasn't around for it but they always said that arguably the biggest shock of the film (causing wide-mouth reactions in movie theatres everywhere) was simply the fact that Janet Leigh was bigger than big at the time, she'd just done The Vikings in 1958 etc and it was unheard of to kill off a massive star like this, I think the shower scene is roughly no more than half an hour in or something or that nature.

[@gaelbourdier2941]

Hi !. You can also watch "The Birds", "Vertigo" and "North by Northwest".

[@CrassMufumbu]

Rebecca same director 1940. Also Psycho 2 is pretty good and underrated.

[@Thombene77]

Arbogast looked like the white Bojangles falling down the stairs after being stabbed.

[@nigeldonaldson1647]

The daring of this film still surprises me considering this was 1960 A similar time to rom coms like squeeky clean Doris day films, truly ground breaking we have - graphic stabbing murders, split personality disorders, cross dressing, and sexual frustration in this black and white unique for it's time film. I'm surprised that they got it all past the censors, but glad they did.

[@romamazza5881]

The actress who plays Marion is Jamie Lee Curtis's mom

[@ticklicker11]

Oh, he's so kind. Wait for it...

[@prp2]

"Halloween" was what they were watching at the party in "Scream," but close. Janet Leigh was Jamie Lee's mom.

[@onepcwhiz6847]

"There's trouble in the home." just a little.. lol

[@michaelcarey8388]

I always ponder if the peep hole scene was a mistake....Would it have better to keep the illusion that he was a bit troubled but mostly a sweet guy?

[@blueroninstudios]

Reasons you should definitely give more classic movies a try: Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Erool Flynn, Veronica Lake, Bud Abbot and Lou Costello, Humphrey Bogart, Sean Connery, Sydney Poitier,etc

[@ajivins1]

John Gavin who played the boyfriend was also in the musical, 'Thoroughly Modern Milly' With Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore which is jolly and worth a look. Psycho 2 came 20 years later after Bates was released but then, time waits for Norman...

[@jonathanross149]

BTW, Janet Leigh (the main actress) daughter is in a few horror films herself.

[@inmoviesempire]

"He seems so sweet" "i like him" "poor guy". good work Hitchcock. anyway your first impression after the shower scene was right. he was him

[@stevetheduck1425]

The film opens with mention of three marriages, each unwelcome for some reason, with the solutions being bigamy, pills, and money to keep the daughter compliant. The 'Psycho' is also created by just such a backstory. Intelligent scriptwriting.

[@sweiland75]

"What is up with dudes in this movie?" It was a different time. Back then women did not interpret a simple invitation as sexual harassment.

[@Mr17051963]

Hitchcock (one of my favorite directors of all times) made 60’s theater audiences went crazy and in state of shock, when he killed her leading actress short after a third of the movie. As we could see in your reaction, the effect is still enduring! After that scene, you feel completely insecure and lost in this thriller ride film. Anyrthing can happen. And it does. After more than 60 years, a classic Masterpiece!

[@jasondemagio4449]

Please react to Psycho 2! Has the same actors back and it’s a fantastic sequel

[@patrickseidel7165]

It's kind of ironic that Marion was played by Janet Leigh since her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis was considered the scream queen.

[@spongebobandplanktonshould2920]

This is the best reaction to Psycho. Thank you, Centane. I like that you don't get scared easily at every tiniest (jump) scare like some other reactors. Real, honest reaction. I know people like seeing reactors get scared watching suspense/horror scenes and they expect it. But you showed that if you're not scared - you're not scared and you didn't bat an eye about some scary scenes. Well done, Centane. 👍

[@skylinerunner1695]

'At least he can't see her in the shower, so that's good'. How many of us smiled to ourselves with a little knowing chuckle when she said that? Ah, those long gone days of blissful ignorance.