Janet Leigh

After the blockbuster sucess of 'Halloween' John Carpenter presented us with a ghoulish tale of a small northern California town named Antonio Bay. Which follows upon the night Antonio Bay turns 100, the night the fog came to kill the entire town. John Carpenter and Debra Hill bring a classic horror that will make you say 'Beware of the Fog' April 30th midnight til one belongs to the dead. Good lord deliever us On a night like tonight cold outside with a fire going telling ghost stories to…

In the movie Psycho there is a scene where the lead female actress Janet Leigh is in the shower and she gets murdered, but it doesn’t actually show her getting stabbed. The history of this movie is that it is horror movie, and it was directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. In the 1960 and 1998 version of the movie…

be immoral and thus laid the basis for a self-regulation policy within the industry that physical reality of such actions would not be displayed on the big screen. The first surprising effect that Hitchcock created in his film was the brutal act of Janet Leigh’s character, Marion Crane, in the shower murder within the first 45 minutes of a 106-minute-long film – a shocking act for many viewers who presumed that Crane to be the main protagonist of the movie. The “knowledge to store” element of…

Rupert Wainwright delivers an intriguing story about a town on an island in Oregon. With decent cinematgrhopy that's all the movie really had. The movie lacked good characters that didn't pull me in. These people actually got paid to act in this? CGI was poorly used for The Fog, it looked like a cloudy day off the coast of Oregon, unlike the original where the fog looked really awesome and a little scarier. In 1871 four men founded Antonio Island, on a night like most nights we see these…

Psycho Psycho is a film that captures your attention and keeps you on your toes from beginning to end. Unlike the gory horror films of today, Psycho, as the name suggests, plays to the psychology of the crimes and events. The main character, Norman Bates, is based off of the murderer Ed Gein. Norman is an odd young man from the start and has a strange attachment to his his mother just like Gein. One of the quotes that stays in my mind from this movie is when Norman tells Marian "After all, a…

turns, and unexpected events one after another. Psycho was one of the best films I have watched because it kept my attention the whole time, and I was never bored. The storyline centers around a beautiful young women named Marion Crane, played by Janet Leigh, who try's escaping her everyday life to run away with her boyfriend Sam, played by John Gavin. Sam has a lot of money issues and is in debt, but Marion has a way to help that problem.…

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…

owner-manager and its aftermath. Truly an impeccable film that manages to match the standards that are expected from a psycho thriller film. 3. The Machinist The machinist, is a film directed by Brad Anderson starring Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon. The movie was amazingly made and could keep a viewer in immersion till the end. The continuity and the flow of the film was recommendable. The film portrays an industrial worker who hasn’t slept in a year and he begans to…

This is Alfred Hitchcock most accomplished movie, his true masterpiece. He was so confident about the outcome of this movie that he produces the project. He believes in the story and the work he did from the begging. It became one of the most emblematic movies of his career and when the movie was released he was making his best movies. In a spur of the moment decision, Marion Crane decides to leave Phoenix with the $40,000 her boss entrusted to her to deposit at the bank. She's headed to her…

Believe it or not, there are many things that western films and horror films have in common. There are similarities found in the cinematography, plots, and music/sound of each genre. Though there are many similarities, it’s very easy to find multiple differences as well. The western genre of film includes movies such as “Stagecoach” and “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”. Clint Eastwood and John Wayne were two very famous actors in western films. On the other hand, horror movies include “Psycho”…