Assassination Classroom Vol. 9
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Book 9 of Assassination Classroom. Nagisa puts everything he's got on the line when the antidotes...
Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety
Maggie Watson and David Kissane
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Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety provides a brief set of clinical guidelines for...
Crystal Crusher Pro HD - 3D shooting puzzle games
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Crystal Crusher Pro HD is an amazing and addicting new strategy game where you are shooting bombs to...
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/07/book-review-homicidal-psycho-jungle-cat.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
And Soon the Darkness (1970)
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Psycho-horror-thriller from the makers of the TV series The Avengers. Two nurses on a cycling...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Psycho (1960) in Movies
Oct 4, 2020
Anthony Perkins is fantastic as Norman Bates. He makes the character both approachable and sinister, subtly suggesting just how unhinged he is as the narrative steams forward.
The pacing in Psycho is perfect, even before Marion Crane pulls into the Bates Motel. It successfully reels you in from the films opening (and incredible music score) and just doesn't let you until the end.
Marion Crane is of course played by Janet Leigh. She has a hypnotizing presence thought the runtime, with every line of dialogue feeling important. Her performance alongside Perkins is a huge part of what makes Psycho such a classic.
Hitchcock achieved some truly magnificent shots here as well. The infamous shower scene has rightly earned it's place in cinema history, but it's easy to forget just how chilling it is when you see a shadowy figure through the shower curtain, silently enter the room. True nightmare fuel. Another favourite moment is the overhead shot when Bates flys out of his mother's room to attack Arbogast. Makes me jump every damn time.
Bernard Herrmanns score compliments all of this wonderfully as well. It's a timeless score that is constantly frantic whilst simultaneously beautiful. Much like Jaws, it's almost impossible to think of the film without hearing parts of the iconic music theme.
Psycho is a solid masterpiece that remains effective to this day. It's the perfect thriller, and in some ways, the perfect horror.
Make Me Old & Ugly Extreme
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Make Me Old & Ugly Extreme will take your normal image or camera shot, and turn you into an...
Educational Games for Soft-Skills Training in Digital Environments: New Perspectives: 2016
Elena Dell'Aquila, Davide Marocco, Michela Ponticorvo and Andrea Di Ferdinando
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The book explores advances in soft-skill training through the adaptation of traditional...
Andy K (10821 KP) rated Psycho (1960) in Movies
Sep 30, 2019
Maybe you could say Vertigo is a better technical film or it uses camera, lighting, sets and scenery better, but Psycho has all of that as well and then some. I remember reading somewhere a list of movies where mid way through the film the plot was hijacked in a completely different direction than it had been going (for movies like From Dusk Till Dawn and True Lies), but Psycho was not listed.
I was extremely surprised in that by 1960, how many filmmakers would dare kill off their only main character and the only one the audience cares about partially through and leave the audience gasping as what was to happen next? I wish I had been sitting in a darkened theatre in 1960 to see just that. Working at movie theatres for years, I have had my share of watching crowd reaction both in laughter and in fear, and I can see how movie makers enjoy doing this themselves for their own films.
Great movies keep you coming back even though you are completely familiar with every detail already, but still come back to rewatch anyways.
I have to assume Anthony Perkins did too good of a job as Norman Bates to have any casting directors use him for different roles. He reprised Norman, several times in the 80s and 90s, and also had roles in other films like The Black Hole and Murder on the Orient Express, but no one really remembers him for anything other than Psycho. He was just that great.
I absolutely love the Bernard Herrmann score, especially over the haunting opening credit sequence. One of the best of all time. Have to mention Janet Leigh also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She was memorable and marvelous as well.
And Hitch never won Best Director.
