025192025129

1960

1960-09-08

109

1h 49min

Top rated movie #32 , Nominated for 4 Oscars, 7 wins & 14 nominations total

Alfred Hitchcock

Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch

Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

Alfred Hitchcock

Bernard Herrmann

John L. Russell

George Tomasini

Jere Henshaw

Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Hurley

George Milo

Rita Riggs

Jack Barron, Florence Bush, Robert Dawn, Larry Germain

Lew Leary

Hilton A. Green, Lester Wm. Berke

Curtis Baessler, Bob Bone, George Cook, Dave Lee, Harold Wolf

William Russell, Waldon O. Watson, Robert R. Bertrand, John Ruth, Harold Tucker

Clarence Champagne, Walter Hammond, Don Wolz

Robert Aldridge, Jack Austin, Eugene Barragy, Walter Bluemel, Robert Burkett, Norman Cassidy, William N. Clark, Eugene Cook, Bill Craemer, Alan Davey, Bobby Greene, Frank Harper, George H. Merhoff, Saul Selznick, Jim Sloan, Leonard J. South, Richard Sutton, Tommy Wilson, Rex Wimpy

Helen Colvig, Joan Joseff, Theodore R. Parvin, Rita Riggs

Jim Wilkinson

Charles S. Gould

Israel Baker, Bernard Herrmann

Marshall Schlom

Saul Bass, Virginia Boyle, Everett W. Brown, John Bud Cardos, Frank da Vinci, Anne Dore, John Drake, Margo Epper, June Gleason, Melvin Hilgenfeld, William T. Hurtz, Myra Jones, Richard Kindelon, Harold Lockwood, Paul Mathews, Jim Merrick, Marli Renfro, Peggy Robertson, Herb Steinberg, Dolores Stockton

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Shamley Productions

USA

Persian, English

R

8.5

664290

97

Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and its aftermath, in which a private investigator (Balsam), Marion s lover Sam Loomis (Gavin), and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.

Psycho was seen as a departure from Hitchcock s previous film North by Northwest, as it was filmed on a lower budget in black-and-white by the crew of his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The film was initially considered controversial and received mixed reviews, but audience interest and outstanding box-office returns prompted a major critical re-evaluation. Psycho was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Leigh and Best Director for Hitchcock.

Psycho is now considered one of Hitchcock s best films, and is arguably his most famous work. It has been praised as a major work of cinematic art by international film critics and scholars due to its slick direction, tense atmosphere, impressive camerawork, a memorable score and iconic performances. Often ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre.

After Hitchcock s death in 1980, Universal Pictures produced follow-ups: three sequels, a remake, a made-for-television spin-off, and a television series set in the 2010s. In 1992, the Library of Congress deemed the film culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant and selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

$806,947 (estimated)

$32,000,000

$32,052,925

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