Post by bruce on Mar 31, 2011 19:13:27 GMT -5
Psycho is a phenomenal cinematic achievement, what made it so ahead of its time was the way in which the film played out, it starts off as a classic chase movie, had it continued on with the premise it would still be an engrossing story.
It is really two movies in one, one which is about a case of stolen money, a chase film where a woman steals a great amount of money to bail her boyfriend out of his financial troubles. It could have followed this storyline all the way through, but then out of nowhere the premise switches. As the women is driving to her boyfriend with the stolen money in the trunk of her car, and away from the police. That night in a downpour of of rain she comes across a neglected motel...the Bates motel.
This is the genius of this movie, just like the birds which starts off like a light hearted romp about a crazy society babe, (a typical premise of that day), but then it abruptly shifts to horror. This is why Hitchcock was one of the greatest directors ever.
Robert Bloch a student and literary friend of H.P. Lovecraft, who gave Bloch advice on an early novel, Lovecraft also has a character in one of his stories with a similar name, a dedicated to his friend Robert. Bloch also wrote several episodes of the original STAR TREK television series.
The book was influenced by the exploits of Ed Gein, the Wisconsin ghoul, who robbed graves and made a "woman suit " out of the flesh of corpses. He also made masks from the faces of the bodies he dug up. He killed two woman, possibly even his brother who died in a fire, presumably he was dead before the fire and the fire was set to hid it.
It is really two movies in one, one which is about a case of stolen money, a chase film where a woman steals a great amount of money to bail her boyfriend out of his financial troubles. It could have followed this storyline all the way through, but then out of nowhere the premise switches. As the women is driving to her boyfriend with the stolen money in the trunk of her car, and away from the police. That night in a downpour of of rain she comes across a neglected motel...the Bates motel.
This is the genius of this movie, just like the birds which starts off like a light hearted romp about a crazy society babe, (a typical premise of that day), but then it abruptly shifts to horror. This is why Hitchcock was one of the greatest directors ever.
Robert Bloch a student and literary friend of H.P. Lovecraft, who gave Bloch advice on an early novel, Lovecraft also has a character in one of his stories with a similar name, a dedicated to his friend Robert. Bloch also wrote several episodes of the original STAR TREK television series.
The book was influenced by the exploits of Ed Gein, the Wisconsin ghoul, who robbed graves and made a "woman suit " out of the flesh of corpses. He also made masks from the faces of the bodies he dug up. He killed two woman, possibly even his brother who died in a fire, presumably he was dead before the fire and the fire was set to hid it.