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Film · 1960 · Suspense
Psycho
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
1960
★ 9.5 editorial score
The film that invented modern horror: Hitchcock broke an unspoken rule about how a story is meant to behave, and every thriller since has been working in the space he opened.
“In "Psycho", Alfred Hitchcock not only created a blazing masterpiece and spawned a new cinematic genre – the slasher. He also delivered one of the boldest blows in screen history. It was not just how he killed Janet Leigh's Marion Crane, astonishing though that was – it was when. The film is 109 minutes long, but he offs his heroine, the glamorous miscreant with whom he's made us identify, after just 47...What the hell would happen next?”
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