Psycho (1960) Filming Locations

[@kilo-watt]

Amazing how good these shots are lined up. Great work.

[@hollywoodharriet13]

I was traumatized by Hitchcock at an early age. For my 9th birthday in 1960 Mom took me and a school friend downtown Chicago for lunch and a movie. We saw Psycho and 13 Ghosts in 3D. I was so scared I wouldn't put on the 3D glasses so I couldn't see the ghosts! To this day that movie creeps me. Not so with Psycho which I have seen more times than I can count. Decades later I asked Mom "why would you take 9 year olds to see Psycho?" She shrugged "it was Hitchcock, who knew?" Really enjoyed this. Well researched and matched up perfectly.

[@gluecement]

Thanks. I guess you won't watch my upcoming 13 Ghosts Then & Now video. ;)

[@TheSaltydog07]

I couldn't shower for a while, then folks started to complain.

[@mikefannon6994]

I was the same age. Mom and my aunt dropped me off while they shipped. Scary but no nightmares. Kids were/are pretty resilient.

[@mikefannon6994]

Shopped

[@1940limited]

I believe the movie is still one of the most shocking ever produced. It was filmed in B&W to tone it down a bit. Even today I wouldn't take a 9 year old to see it.

[@DaveTexas]

Finding the exact locations on highways is tough! Really excellent work here.

[@seanryan8680]

I want to congratulate you for comparing from 1960 to 2023. Well done! Show us more please!

[@tbecker97204]

Nice how you exactly matched up the movie scenes with the current landscape. Adds to the realism. I always like the architecture and style of the Bates' home.

[@nosoloSportingHD]

I´m sure Alfred Hitchcock approves this video! Good job!

[@dnava04]

The music build up at 1:53 matching the intensity of the scene, plus the music cue on the next transition was flawless, bravo.

[@billbrock8740]

WHERE do you even begin to find the lone telephone pole in the middle of nowhere during that traffic cop scene??? VERY, VERY IMPRESSIVE! Thank you so much for this. It was PHENOMENAL!!!

[@chrisarmstrong411]

Was just Increadable how accurate this production was, the results were outstanding!!!! Very well done!!!

[@rgrndu]

63 years later and those rural shots in CA haven’t changed. 👍

[@williamstillmanpsychicmedium]

This was absolutely extraordinary! Thank you!

[@KevinMontreal]

Wow, the work you put into this is amazing! Great job!

[@SallySallySallySally]

Very nice job! Good work! The craft was so perfected by then. The "camera through the window" jump cut at the beginning was so seamless. It reminds me of the scene in "The Birds" where "Melanie Daniels" (Tippi Hedren) walks into "Davidson's Pet Shop" (Hitchcock does his cameo here, walking out with two leashed Scottish terriers.) The camera follows her as she crosses Powell Street and proceeds on the sidewalk. They use a lamp post in the frame to do a jump cut to the sound stage set containing the store front. Absolutely masterful.

[@michaelflanagan3691]

This is the very best ‘then and now’ movie location video I have ever seen. It is simply excellent in every respect. The detail and research is flawless. Please please can we have more. I cannot praise it enough. Thank you to everyone involved in its production.

[@craigharmon9494]

I want to add my thanks, along with everyone else. This is an amazing piece of work.

[@brianjones6878]

Great job on this. One of my favorite movies.

[@1000750]

Again, another top notch edit! These videos are amazing, I don't understand why the channel hasn't picked up more subs and views meanwhile someone eating in their bedroom gets a million views. Looking forward to more 🤙

[@ammcox]

Incredible attention to detail in this video. Thanks for a job very well done.

[@pravinshingadia7337]

Awesome work in lining up the locations

[@dougmacmillan1712]

Excellent job!

[@DMBall]

According to his biographer, Hitchcock made "Psycho" in a hurry and on the cheap, using his TV series crew, because he had wasted months and $200,000 preparing another film for Paramount, which he never finished. The spectacular success of "Psycho" came as a complete surprise.

[@stevehoffman9735]

That was VERY well done. I am impressed, thank you.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

WOW! This is an amazing collection of matching up the locations with the movie. Clearly, this is one of the best movie location videos out there.

[@doctorbohr1585]

Very detailed. Thank you!

[@GeorgeBeyond]

Wonderful! Loved all the details!

[@pxn748]

It's so cool that the original car dealership is still a car dealership!

[@1940limited]

The stuff on the lot isn't nearly as interesting.

[@sarahostrinsky4595]

Nicely done

[@YeTube7]

Nice job!

[@daveh4334]

Nicely done!!!

[@HalloweenRock]

As a long time Psycho fan and a fan of it's sequels I must say that was well done and my hats off to ya! And the music was wonderful. Bravo!

[@gluecement]

Thanks. Music is always tricky for movies with a super famous soundtrack. I tried to get the essence of Herrmann's score without it being a blatant rip-off.

[@HalloweenRock]

I love Herrmann's score, I have it on CD, but what you did gave everything a new interesting twist and vibe. Would love to hear the entire soundtrack re- imagined like this.@@gluecement

[@uncleron9481]

Very nice piece of work. Thanks.

[@PerAllwin1963]

This is amazing. Thank you.

[@VanAdventuresBavaria]

Saul Bass would be proud to see that. Good done!

[@heyheyjk-la]

OMG, while I live right down the street from Universal Studios and have worked on the lot before, I also live about a 5 minute walk from that car lot (now BMW)! I also didn't know that years ago I stayed at the Hyatt in Phoenix which was right next to the hotel from the beginning of the film. Never knew any of that at all before. Great video on these locations!

[@Demille40]

Stage 28 was also the PHANTOM stage, because it was where the 1925 version of the Phantom of the Opera was filmed. It was the oldest stage in Hollywood. It even contained the original opera boxes from the film. The fact that they tore it down for something so dumb as Super Nintendo world shows how clueless and ignorant the present leadership at Universal is.

[@caveman3021]

Some have said it was preserved in peices somewhere, but I think thats just wishful thinking..Its LA...Im surprised it lasted as long as it did..they tear everything down there like its nothing☹

[@Clint7777]

The car dealership still being a car dealership is so cool

[@LSUfan]

I CANNOT BELIEVE how the shots of the hills line up!!! Fantastic video showing everyone else how it should be done.

[@JamesHerington]

I have been fascinated with Alfred Hitchcock's work since I can remember

[@TheNinjaPicker]

I really appreciate the time and effort you put into making this. Well done!

[@rabbitttz]

Thanks for this, your video is by far the best one out of all the ones I’ve looked through. Informative, neat and straight to the point. No annoying talking or filler.

[@ednieto05]

This video is awesome. So well done. Bravo!

[@tobytwirl04]

EXCELLENT! Thank you...

[@vikingtu]

Outstanding job!

[@MultiSUPERLATIVO]

Such an amazing document. Incredible how buildings and landscape are intact (to the extent of that fence line at 3:46), while the human beings who worked in this film are all gone! It makes me wonder........

[@Great-Documentaries]

Well done!

[@trevorkent7916]

Absolutely fantastic

[@deboralee1623]

i give this more than one Like for the concept, the execution, and the closing credit's homage to the original titles. wow. Wow. !WOW!

[@rawanimal2002]

This is incredible, well done!

[@dcdel1]

This is quite wonderful to watch, such an iconic film to be seen with todays view. Brilliant, ty

[@oldtatshow]

What a fascinating video! Thank you and congratulations!

[@caveman3021]

Great contrasts and lineups! Thanks for sharing this amazing work!👍

[@MadMansCosplay]

Great video! I love it 👍

[@andrewk2996]

You did an amazing job here. I always love your videos as you put so much effort into making the then and now comparisons as accurate as possible.

[@christoph404]

well this is great, without doubt the most comprehensive location comparison on Psycho. Great work,thanks for posting!

[@tomhammer1784]

That was great and likely took a lot of work. Thanks for the effort.

[@stevemoore9509]

Man all I can say is you have done your homework. You did an excellent job. Thanks so much for posting. Love the music in the background also.

[@RK-rf8rc]

You matched those shots up perfectly

[@jimbeanthelegend1982]

Great job keep making these

[@chrisperry7963]

Excellent!!

[@sickheadache9903]

Psycho was Hitchcock’s last film for Paramount Studios. Hitch already was at Universal shooting his TV Show. To save money Alfred Hitchcock used his TV Crew and Universal’s back lot and North Hollywood Car Lot where Marion sells her car, to fill in for Arizona Shots.

[@Tag-Traeumer]

Fascinating! I recently bought Psycho on DVD and was amazed that the film is recommended for ages 12 and up. Some young people will refuse to shower again.

[@neildickson5394]

Incredibly well done...Bravo!

[@michellephillips2983]

Awesome video as usual 👏 Thankyou 😊

[@michaelpisani5962]

Very nice.

[@PhilipStacey-ty2em]

Thank you, very well shot and compared, passage of time for this iconic movie resonates.

[@modder1975]

is crazy how some places are remained exactly the same.

[@None-zc5vg]

The developers will be on their way, rest assured.

[@dontherealartist]

EXCELLENT JOB! BRAVO! Thank you for this! (I liked the look of EVERYTHING back THEN of course . . .)

[@cha5]

I was first shown Psycho in my Middle School right after I graduated from Elementary School back in the early 1970's, We watched it in our school cafeteria and the whole cafeteria turned into a screaming zone especially during the shower scene. It traumatized the living Hell out of me and as I remember several parents including my own really had a massive backlash against the school for showing a movie like that to kids who had just gotten out of Elementary School, But I also came to consider Psycho as one of my all time favorite films and it gave me an appreciation of Hitchcock and the Horror genre in general later on. They also showed us some of the Universal Monster Horror films as well and even a film on the history of Science Fiction and Horror, which I also came to appreciate later on. Although I would still never show Psycho to kids who were as young as we were in those days.

[@billbrock8740]

OMG! Was this for a class, or a small after school event?

[@cha5]

@@billbrock8740 I don’t think it was for a particular class, although it was so long ago I really can’t say, it seemed like the entire school was packed into the cafe at the time though, I guess it might have been around Halloween time for all I know, They showed us several horror and suspense movies at that time including the The Mummy with Boris Karloff from 1932, (which gave me a fear of being mummified and buried alive as a kid,) And also the Audrey Hepburn movie Wait Until Dark in which she plays a blind woman who is being stalked by three crooks who want a doll she has that has heroine in it, there’s one scene in that film that has her opening a closet door with a corpse of a murdered lady in it, (which she can’t see because she’s blind.) that also stuck in my mind as a kid when I first saw it. I have no idea what our teachers were thinking when they showed us those films, The seventies were a kind of “hang loose” time though. 🤔

[@Jbmol]

Perfect job, my friend. Thank you.

[@Coxie61]

Excellent work!! Thank you

[@dananderson3077]

Wow....nice job on that!!!!!

[@KirkTeetzel]

Man, that was just about perfect

[@RubyMc-v4i]

It’s definitely the music that creeps me out….

[@gaptoothed]

Psycho’s Stage 18 is todays Stage 7. They were all recently renumbered when the stages were repainted. Also, the original Falls Lake is basically underneath the New Falls Lake and it was much closer to Singapore Lake (Jaws).

[@redkos]

Very, very well done! Great photography, & lots of good info. Thanks for your work & for posting this.

[@HassoBenSoba]

Excellent work, practically mesmerizing.

[@alabardaspaziale3208]

Great video. 👍👏🏆

[@copacabana164]

Thank you so much for these amazing explications - from Germany. I have been visited Universal Studios in 1990 and there, our tour guide explicated, that Anthony Perkins ,when the knife scene was taped in the shower, he not was this person and not held the knife...at this time he has not been in Hollywood..our guide told.

[@caveman3021]

Right! He was doing a live play in New York at the time...the name escapes me🤔

[@socalregion]

Per the locations, the Bates Motel was located on Golden State Blvd in Herndon, CA. This was the last section of three lane highway on US 99. It was bypassed in 1960, which is mentioned in the movie as the motel was "just off the highway and was bypassed recently".

[@cowmissing]

Nice video. (New) Falls Lake (with backdrop) wasn’t built until 1986 for Jaws: The Revenge. The car was placed under water on the back side of the former attraction, Parting of the Red Sea (tram left).

[@n.gerlach7334]

Great music. Love the slowmotion. But it was Studio 6 at Universal (shower scene). I was there.😉

[@mkt1847]

This was an excellent video. Great attention to detail and easy to follow. I'm a little surprised you were able to use the video clips due to copyright? I feel like that is why a lot of these videos are not as good and hard to follow. Great job!

[@mehdikameli1201]

Amazing job, thanks.

[@missrubyred1515]

Amazing video! Now I also wanna watch the film again! 👏

[@1940limited]

Very interesting. Thanks for the presentation

[@BlueShadow777]

Excellent! Subscribed!

[@tompardini7939]

Excellent Work!

[@solitaire5142]

Very well done !

[@ericmorrow8670]

amazingly well done video!!

[@ToyotaGuy1971]

nice comparison shots and info

[@Carolina_Panthers145]

Classic movie will forever be the best!

[@tombolcar8858]

I love locations never seen Psycho. I’m excited

[@jerryhayes9497]

Excellent video thanks 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@leonardbenzies6374]

At Universal Studios tour you can see Bates Motel and House plus an actor with a knife coming out of the Cabins when the tour bus goes by. 2019

[@JohnShinn6078]

It took me approximately 25 minutes to get through this with all my pausing and zooming. Great patience and work you have in this! 🤠👍 Subscibed, now I challenge you to do "Fargo"

[@seanryan8680]

I’m surprised universal stage 28 was allowed to be demolished.

[@matt_wiggins26]

I wonder what happened to the original shower curtain? Must be a real collectable.

[@carlopanno6307]

They probably threw it away. It's not like it's rare or distinctive. If they only knew....

[@deboralee1623]

?who would want something that'd been put in a police station's evidence- storage facility, after it served as the shroud for a corpse? ewww. and let's not forget how much time the curtain and what it contained spent in the swamp -- a week or so, i believe. double ewww. not to be gross, but whenever i see the car being towed from its [dramatic voice] watery grave, i think of what the trunk and its contents smell(ed) like. i mean, smell(ed) like had this been a real situation.

[@jacksparrow900]

the motel was recreated for PSYCHO III. Then in 1998 they covered up the clapboard siding for the remake. The house as it stands today is mostly from PSYCHO II and Invitation to a gunfight. The original house had the front side and tower the opposite side wasn't added until the mid 60's and the back of the house wasn't until after PSYCHO III. It was just a facade not a full structure.

[@gluecement]

I first read that it was built for Psycho III, then someone from Universal Tours said it was built for the remake. I never found a definitive source to clear up the discrepancy. But as you said, I figured it was most likely built for Psycho III then got altered/partially--rebuilt for the remake. But I needed a quick caption for the video, so I simplified it a bit.

[@jacksparrow900]

@@gluecement a lot of the tour information is false hilton green when he was alive had said for Psycho II they built a portion of the motel with the rest a matte shot. When they relocated opposite falls lake in 86 they built the entire motel which is where it has stood to this day. Unfortunately the stone stairs are not from Psycho III they were replaced I believe when they did the last restoration on the house.

[@rainerrehaag9996]

absolute great !!

[@talmirnolasco4328]

Hugs from Brazil 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷

[@TheSaltydog07]

Hugs from Georgia USA!

[@talmirnolasco4328]

@TheSaltydog07 Nice, I grew up watching movies of 80s! I wanna visit soon 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸!