I had a strong urge to do a Throwback because it seems like forever since I last did one. So this week we’re going back a way to take a look into one of the greatest masters of suspense Alfred Hitchcock and one of his most famed works Psycho.
Marion Crane played by Janet Leigh (The Fog, Two is a Happy Number, Wives and Lovers) is desperate to get out of town and get her happily ever after with her lover Sam Loomis played by John Gavin (Jennifer, Back Street, Convoy *Series). The only thing standing in her way is money and the lack of it. So when her employer gets a boastful but wealthy client who practically dangles his fortune of forty thousand dollars in front of the lovely Ms. Crane well…how’s a girl to resist? On a whim she steals the money and makes a run for it taking a long drive from Phoenix to Los Angeles to meet up with Sam. But she never makes it there.
Stopping in for the night at the Bate’s Motel Marion meets Norman Bates; Anthony Perkins (Catch-22, Psycho II, The Lonely Man) a sweet young man who informs her they have twelve rooms and twelve vacancies and lucky her she gets room number one. A quiet chat between the two quickly takes a turn for the strange …show more content…
The movie was a pioneer for special effects in editing and the quality really shows here. Janet and Anthony have a great chemistry together as predator and victim and I really enjoy the scene where they have dinner together. There's something just so unsettling about the whole thing but you can’t figure out why till the very end. This is why Anthony will forever hold the medal for his creepy and sinister role as Norman Bates. His last scene gives me chills! The second half of the movie with Marion’s sister and lover are just as gripping the closer they get to finding the truth. The acting, at times, can be a little over dramatic but it’s not a constant and it hardly takes away from the
Marion Crane played by Janet Leigh (The Fog, Two is a Happy Number, Wives and Lovers) is desperate to get out of town and get her happily ever after with her lover Sam Loomis played by John Gavin (Jennifer, Back Street, Convoy *Series). The only thing standing in her way is money and the lack of it. So when her employer gets a boastful but wealthy client who practically dangles his fortune of forty thousand dollars in front of the lovely Ms. Crane well…how’s a girl to resist? On a whim she steals the money and makes a run for it taking a long drive from Phoenix to Los Angeles to meet up with Sam. But she never makes it there.
Stopping in for the night at the Bate’s Motel Marion meets Norman Bates; Anthony Perkins (Catch-22, Psycho II, The Lonely Man) a sweet young man who informs her they have twelve rooms and twelve vacancies and lucky her she gets room number one. A quiet chat between the two quickly takes a turn for the strange …show more content…
The movie was a pioneer for special effects in editing and the quality really shows here. Janet and Anthony have a great chemistry together as predator and victim and I really enjoy the scene where they have dinner together. There's something just so unsettling about the whole thing but you can’t figure out why till the very end. This is why Anthony will forever hold the medal for his creepy and sinister role as Norman Bates. His last scene gives me chills! The second half of the movie with Marion’s sister and lover are just as gripping the closer they get to finding the truth. The acting, at times, can be a little over dramatic but it’s not a constant and it hardly takes away from the