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Psycho (1960)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Norman Bates	Anthony Perkins
Marion Crane	Janet Leigh	½
Lila Crane	Vera Miles
Sam Loomis	John Gavin	½
Milton Arbogast	Martin Balsam
Sheriff Chambers	John McIntire	½
Man Outside Office in Cowboy Hat	Alfred Hitchcock	½

Review

Hitchcock's number one trademark is still ingeniously terrifying after all these years. Even though mainly having been a prank from the master of suspense's point of view, Psycho is the quintessential horror movie. It's easy to forget the impact this film made on an entire genre (depicting knife-stabbing psychotic young men), and it's also easy to overlook how fundamentally different this was to anything Hitchcock had made before. His previous movies had been thrillers, but Psycho re-juvinated a genre that had been limited to b-movie material and recurring performances from fading performers. In addition to being a brilliantly accomplished horror movie, it's also an unparalleled psychological study, with Anthony Perkins unarguably giving the performance of a lifetime. Psycho is as chilling as any movie you'll ever see, and it holds its own against any of today's special effect vehicles.