Psycho

Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is one of the most highly regarded in film history. The music does so much to create a suspenseful, and sometimes terrifying, atmosphere for the film. Psycho was one of few films that explored psychology and presented new techniques to showcase them in the music. Composed during the New Wave Cinema, Psycho employs modern techniques such as the lack of a given cue, dissonant sounds, limited orchestral colors, and black-and-white cinematography. The music and film of the work, Psycho, is highly regarded in film history as a monumental work that earned its stripes in suspense and horror. Psycho was composed during the era of New Wave Cinema.The New Wave Cinema originated in France and had a big impact on filmmaking around the whole world. It focused on the psychological importance of the mise-en-scene and music. Setting, lighting, staging, and sound were all important in creating the mise-en-scene. The role of music…

Alesik Valdez Prof. Stupin MUS 006. Sect. 1965 7 May, 2018 The Symphonic Story of a Boy and His Mother In the 1960 film, Psycho, not only was the genre and topic new to audiences all around the world, so was the groundbreaking score. Never had anyone attempted and successfully used music like the kind that Bernard Herrmann created for this film. Herrmann focused on the fact that this movie was very much a story that played into one’s mind, and he knew that the music had to add onto the horror.…

Psycho. A movie that will never really leave your mind and may possibly haunt you for the rest of you life. This 1960 thriller/horror film was directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. If you are a fan of interesting, suspenseful, and just plain good movies, this is a wonderful choice. It is full of twists, 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…

Robert Ebert states, “One difference between Film Noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.” The Movie Psycho which was made in 1960 directed by Alfred Hitchcock definitely has the plot twist element of Film Noir . The film, being the Film Noir genre, uses lots of different Film Noir elements to complete the feeling. Throughout the movie the viewer sees the traits of classic Film Noir, in the movie Psycho.…

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film; Psycho is a prime example of a film that utilises expert editing. The “shower scene” from Psycho is where this incredibly skilful editing creates intense emotion in a fairly small time space through the strategic use of action, direction, form and concept edits which all ultimately add to the thriller-horror narrative of the film. The first edit in the “shower scene” is a direction edit as the shot where Marion Crane holds her hand out with the torn-up pieces of…

There are few films that can boast the credit of having revolutionized a genre, and for horror, Psycho is one of those films. The 1960s horror classic directed by Alfred Hitchcock is considered one of the first movies in the slasher sub-genre, and is responsible for moving horror films away from the increasingly corny Universal Monsters of the earlier decades to a more serious threat. The film follows Marion Crane, a secretary who runs away from her home town after stealing a large sum of money…

Note: Within the essay, whenever the term serial killer is used, it encompasses any type of violent offender without a motive or a connection to the victims. Today’s society is not able to truly comprehend the serial or the mass murderer. With no motive or connection to the victims, the violence does not make sense. It is difficult to depict a character or concept only partially understood. Psycho took this perplexing subject and executed it respectfully and appropriately. It was the…

Peter Greenaway, author of Defining Narrative, studied narrative structure in films, explaining varying narratives. Within this analyzation, Greenway addresses the 1960 adaptation of Psycho. “Hitchcock makes masterful use of restricted narration, preventing the audience from learning one critical aspect of Norman's story-the true nature of his relationship with his mother-until the end of the film.” (Greenway 82). Although present in a majority of the film, three significant examples will be…

7 best psycho-thriller movies from Hollywood that are can make you go inquisitive. Psychological thriller movies tend to fascinate a lot of viewers with developing a feeling of suspense, moods of anxiety, fury and confusion at the same time. The audience of the film are trying to figure out what’s next and then there’s a twist where comes a feeling of exhilaration. The extent of creating intrigue and mystery in which mind-games are involved leading a person to become inquisitive about what’s…

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…