PSYCHO (1960) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

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]

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]

😂😂😂😂 Your comment actually made me lol.

[@breezy4me1]

Byrs

[@breezy4me1]

Byrs

[@robertjewell9727]

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]

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

[@brigettekorenek8135]

🤣🤣😘

[@georgeditzel3504]

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

[@torbnymublous4403]

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

[@tarrded]

Check out Psycho 2

[@BlueHorizon674]

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]

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

[@BlueHorizon674]

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

[@mth666]

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

[@amberaustin3243]

@@mth666nice! Lol! 😂

[@w.l.6005]

I don't think you do television series. If you ever have time to check out Bates motel with Freddie highmore as a young, more modern version of Norman Bates equally as terrifying

[@robertjewell9727]

"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]

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]

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

[@jgarofalo8813]

Herrmann was a genius.

[@robertjewell9727]

@@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]

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

[@KevinMiller-ol2wi]

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]

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

[@lauraneely6270]

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

[@stevenandcarminabeedle9089]

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]

Yeah she looks just like him.

[@MsAppassionata]

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

[@tenjed4224]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[@tenjed4224]

@randywhite3947 many individuals in the movie industry of that time period. That takes nothing away from Audrey Hepburn or any other stars on the scene who were great actors, in their own rights.

[@butkusfan23]

Unlock the goofballs of today. During the Marvel run from Iron Man to Endgame, it got to where I needed headphones in the lobby and before the film. People coming out of the film would loudly talk about the whole film and spoil it all. Even worse were the people that did the same thing in the theater, spoiling it because they already saw it online and they shout about how they can’t wait for certain scenes. People are the worst.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

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..." :)

[@blakeharris58]

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]

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]

​​@@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]

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

[@emoartist12]

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

[@finster1968]

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]

@@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]

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

[@Mr.Schitzengigglez]

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.

[@jgarofalo8813]

“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]

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

[@erey214]

Lithen

[@jgarofalo8813]

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

[@lex61519]

I LOVE Rear Window

[@maurakinney2403]

@@stevenandcarminabeedle9089Wait Until Dark! Love that movie.

[@ink-cow]

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]

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

[@dabe1971]

@@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 !

[@AlanHigh-x4i]

​@@pauldurkee4764 He was.

[@ink-cow]

@@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.

[@helicoptersrkool]

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]

The second one is my ish

[@BertonMelch]

The 2nd one blew my mind. 😂

[@erey214]

@@BertonMelch yeah with 2 twists

[@kennethmccullah4905]

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

[@wendywoodruff2871]

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]

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

[@cashflowhustles]

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

[@hellohi821]

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

[@phillipweber6059]

You'll get nothing and like it!!! 😅

[@miked.7245]

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

[@BigGator5]

"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]

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

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

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

[@sharonmarshall8648]

Film theory

[@boomzer10]

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]

Psycho II is better for me, far more rewatchable!

[@Jakethehitman73]

I LOVED Psycho 2. It was refreshing. 3 and 4 felt a bit too repetitive for me - although 4 had some great moments.

[@wwk68tig]

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.

[@BunnyGirl71]

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. 😉

[@shainewhite2781]

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

[@denisemay6807]

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

[@hectorp885]

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

[@AlanHigh-x4i]

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.

[@wittleMermaid13]

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

[@Raven5150]

Jamie Lee's momma gets slashed this time

[@hollycook5046]

No wonder she did those Halloween movies. Payback

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

​@@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.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

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]

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]

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

[@JRSiebz]

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

[@bobsylvester88]

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

[@billolsen4360]

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

[@davidw3281]

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

[@redviper6805]

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]

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

[@rpg7287]

Vertigo is his next best after Psycho.

[@monicamaza5843]

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

[@jpkc86]

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.

[@hannahmoore9215]

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

[@freshsmilely]

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

[@shakycam3]

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

[@WaltBTB]

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

[@billolsen4360]

He still had his Norman clothes on

[@Elerad]

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.

[@everyonelovesmajima]

Fun fact: First film to show a toilet flushing

[@Bluesit32]

It was considered almost scandalous too.

[@johnnehrich9601]

@@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]

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]

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

[@Gravydog316]

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

[@maximillianosaben]

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

[@lanzknecht8599]

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....

[@orlandoruizjr3834]

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

[@SuburbanSavage]

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.

[@michiganjfrog366]

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]

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. 😂

[@americanmutt9089]

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.

[@tec52]

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".

[@thelittlehobbit4698]

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

[@Raven5150]

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

[@UncleCharlie111x2]

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

[@jameskirschling7887]

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.

[@EXWiz4rd]

I hope you watch psycho 2. It’s a good sequel. Obviously it can’t top the original but you’ll be surprised. And Anthony Perkins does an even better job in the sequel as Norman if you can even believe that

[@S_047]

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

[@harveybojangle475]

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

[@smichelle65]

If this is your first Hitchcock film, then you must watch "Rear Window" and "The Birds" some time.

[@hollycook5046]

Ed Gein inspired so much craziness

[@tylerlucas3752]

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.

[@fairydust-weepthewildwinds]

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]

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

[@macroman52]

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.

[@Keedeeg]

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]

Oh yeah ... You would like The Birds.

[@ligeiaztomb2755]

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.

[@michaelhartsell6566]

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

[@maximillianosaben]

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

[@ward1117]

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

[@JoannDavi]

Crazy is strong, but Sam was a sexy bundle of muscle.

[@timd.3837]

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.

[@womanonthinice1276]

"Rear Window" is excellent!

[@KajunMoo70]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@mildredpierce4506]

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

[@misternef]

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.

[@shainewhite2781]

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊

[@CharitaHuggs]

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

[@ronp1903]

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! 🎥🍿👍

[@Kootie03]

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

[@smichelle65]

**Spoiler alert** Drew Barrymore's demise 10 minutes into "Scream" was a shout out to Janet Leigh's murder early in this film. Drew was featured prominently in the "Scream" marketing, and she was arguably the biggest star in the film.

[@angelavalentino5146]

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.

[@SurvivorBri]

I haven't watched your reaction yet but I am expecting a record number of "STFU" exclamations.

[@michaelcoffey1991]

@JL Understand this was at a time were it was risque to show a woman in the same bed with her man, even more shocking was to kill your star not even 1/2 way thru the film. Why many of us consider Hitchcock the goat is his dialog, his verbiage, his knack for showing the audience everything but not the characters on screen thus creating hyper tenstion. Your reaction to the end which also was shocking was terrific. I recommend psycho 2 which is NOT done by Hitchcock but is stellar. Hopefully one day you do all movies by Alfred Hitchcock. He is amazing. Thanks to the EOM staff as always, and the amazing patreons which shocked me happily by requesting this Hitchcock classic :).

[@AndyMakesPlaylists]

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.

[@Raven5150]

Can't reccomend Alfred Hitchcock enough, the birds will give you nightmares vertigo will make you feel like your on drugs, North by northwest was parody by Mel Brooks in high anxiety, he had many many short movies he had a show called Hitchcock presents just his into will stick with you

[@MorrisB1971]

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

[@RoSaWa386-33]

MARNIE. Bring on another Mother film - MARNIE is that story and film.

[@Neeneros]

Maybe Norman would have beat Sam if Norman's crazy wasn't a little old lady. Wrong superpower

[@michaelcarey8388]

Please, please please watch Psycho 2. It's brilliant. Anthony Perkins does an even stronger acting job as Norman in the sequel.

[@Gruzbee]

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.

[@ginabrown7748]

I'm so happy you watched this movie; I saw it first when I was 4 years old watched the munsters and was too scared of it. The name of Loomis came up and you made the reference to halloween, you don't know how right you were, because the star of this was jamie lee's mama, also there were several sequals with tony perkins playing norman and one of them had jennifer tilly in it; and i don't know if you enough chuckie movies yet ..... The mop does work very well in a shower-- I have tried it because when I was small I read all bent over crooked and now if I try to do something normal my back aches. one more thing both jamie and her mother were in a movie named the fog (1980).

[@hippiechic6772]

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

[@Sirala6]

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

[@matthewkirkhart2401]

Mingo county! Yes! 🙂 Last time I was there was probably 35 years ago, but I bet it hasn't changed in the least. Can you imagine the blow to the "mom and pop" motel business? I wonder how many of them went under from people not wanting to stay at a small motel after watching this movie.

[@SarahManley]

Other Hitchcock movies to watch: Rear Window, The Birds, North by Northwest, Vertigo

[@Paul_1971]

and Frenzy!

[@johnnehrich9601]

My favorites of his include The Lady Vanishes and Dial M for Murder. All his movies have the Hitchcock touch but the story lines are all over place so you wouldn't get bored.

[@danjohnson2986]

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”

[@beesnort3163]

Alfred Hitchcock, Harvey Weinstein back in the day. Good movies but a total monster.

[@stevenmoules4955]

Psycho 2,3 and 4 is worth checking out as well!..forget the remake its awful!

[@itss_nattyj]

I just started watching and I hope Jay knows the leading lady in the beginning is his boo Jamie Lee Curtis’ mother, Janet Leigh. I’m sure someone else had to have told him.

[@cameronrobinson3933]

There's not too many movies from that long ago that I would recommend to people unless I knew they like super old classic movies but this movie is one that I would recommend to anybody

[@shotgunbettygaming]

Naw, that car isn't in the swamp, that shit is in the California Tar Pits😆 edit: I've seen the Psycho house irl when I was a kid at Universal Studios. It was so cool, it sits (or sat, not sure if it's still there) atop a hill and at the bottom of the hill out it's front door is the Leave It To Beaver house😂

[@emoartist12]

Oh man I hope you do more Hitchcock! The Birds, Marnie, Rear Window, etc etc he has some many good ones!

[@KevinMiller-ol2wi]

There sequels to this movie psycho 2, psycho 3 and Psycho 4 the beginning I hope you react to those sir and there a remake to this movie you're watching right now the first one don't even bother watching the remake it's a waste of time

[@horrorjunkiehayne]

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

[@kristasantoss]

My absolute favorite horror movie!! Can't wait to watch this reaction! I'm sure it will be a good one.

[@amberaustin3243]

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.💀

[@cowabungakumquat2825]

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

[@alexhook9151]

If I ever had to be in a horror movie and I could have one person with me, it'd be you. So when things get 😬 you'd tell me it's time to gtfo, and I'd listen and live 😅.

[@shaneyoung3407]

He OJ’d the hell out of her. Hilarious. Bahaha

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

Hello E.O.M., another movie released about this time is " Homicidal ". I remember it to be creepier and scarier.

[@dglmlv]

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

[@erey214]

2 is my favorite

[@rnw2739]

​@@erey214Mine too, it's fantastic!

[@ididthisonpulpous6526]

"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!

[@carolebuckle7977]

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