Hitchcock presents Psycho (1960) with a twisted plot that makes the audience sitting at the edge of their seats. Although the main focus is about Norman’s double personality disorder, it’s not only him suffering through the issue. Marion Crane and Norman Bates have their own secret identity and their own personal problems they try to face. Hitchcock emphasizes how everyone has his or her own secret life and somehow this give people a motive to make wrong choices. Psycho is a horror-thriller film that
Ed Gein: The Original Psycho Many movies have portrayed a psychotic killer who eats his victims such as “Hannibal,” a young psychotic man who is obsessive over his dead mothers body “Psycho,” and crazy man who ruthlessly murders and mutilates people, tearing off their face and wearing it as his own “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” These horrific movies that seem to be unimaginable acts of deviance are all based off of one ruthless man, Ed Gein. Born in Plainfield, Wisconsin in a small rural farm area
The movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock is a movie that has gone down as one of the greatest movies ever made. The movie is a household name, and in the Horror genre, the movie is a hallmark which redefined the genre for generations to come. It would be an overstatement to say that the techniques used in this movie were invented by Hitchcock. However, it was Hitchcock who explored these methods in the movie Psycho, setting the standards for horror movies for generations to come, with a lot of the practices
disturbed owner, Norman Bates. Midway through the film, Marion is murdered by Bates, leaving her boyfriend and sister to solve the riddle that is Norman Bates. Hitchcock uses several techniques to create a tense atmosphere full of suspense for the audience such as lighting, camera angles and sound. He uses these techniques throughout the film particularly in the infamous ‘Shower Scene’. Hitchcock builds suspense towards the ‘Shower Scene’ with the sequence that first introduces Marion and Norman, ‘The Parlour
Psycho is often argued to be Hitchcock’s scariest film. Not only is this down to the terrifying plot and Hitchcock’s trademark visual imagery, featuring extreme angles and shadows, but also the music that plays an important role in creating this ominous atmosphere. It is also accredited with being a revolutionary scene for its time, making way for future horror films to come. Without the iconic ‘shower scene’ string music, it is hard to imagine the scene having the same impact on the audience, as
of Marion Crane as she winds down from a day at the motel. She turns towards the shower head and scrubs her hair, little does she know there is a shadowy figure creeping up behind her. Then before we know it the shower curtain rips open, and “Norma Bates” begins slashing at Marion. Marion cripples to the bloody shower floor and takes one last look at her killer before she leaves the dimly lit bathroom. Personally, I have always been a fan of horror movies. Sitting in the dark on a cool summer night
Alfred Hitchcock’s film, “The Birds” is a film that uses psychoanalysis to deem typical moviegoers of how real life themes to scare the mind into think what’s real and what’s not. While watching this film, it goes through some of the themes of psychoanalysis. Such themes that are gone through are through an individual’s unconscious, subconscious, regression, projection, the ID, ego and superego and the pleasure principle. But to go through the psychoanalytic parts of the film, Hitchcock uses imagery
films revolve around being trapped in different ways. 3 Bird is also an English expression used to refer to a woman. If this term did influence Hitchcock, it could explain the use of subtly placed paintings of women being abused, and also the idea of Norman ‘preying’ upon women in Psycho.
Crane having to leave town quickly because she embezzled $40,000 from her company. The movie follows her closely, seeing her trying to escape with the money and eventually stopping at a motel where another character is brought in the picture: Norman Bates. This is when the director (Alfred Hitchcock) would eventually throw different kinds of twist throughout the movie causing to redirect attention from one point to another or causing the audience not to pay attention. Hitchcock was the best for
telling the story of psycho. In the first half of the film, Norman Bates was displayed as the typical ‘wrong place, wrong time’ motel owner who was seen as very vulnerable and isolated with only him and his ‘mother’ at the motel until Marion turns up. In the second half of the film, Hitchcock challenges the stereotype of Norman’s character as we learn that he has got a multiple personality disorder and is revealed to be a serial killer. Norman gives his ‘mother’ half of his mind, speaking for her, acting