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PSYCHO (1960) PATREON EXCLUSIVE REACTION

🕑 Added 2025-11-09 23:00:07 +0000 UTC

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Tony Young

I love Bates Motel, but it is very different than Psycho. The final season hits some of the same story beats, then veers off in a direction I wasn't quite expecting (I'd seen Psycho years before Bates Motel). I'm so glad that you watched this movie! It's one of my favorites! I hope that you at least watch the first sequel, if not all three of them!

Dean J

If you watch any more 60s movies, a good way to convert money in your head is just to add a zero. Dirk, above, gave the exact amount, but if you're watching something and you don't want to stop to look anything up. Like, "Your car plus $700" would be about $7,000 today, and the Bates Motel charged $10 would be about $100 today. It's not exact, but it's close enough to get an idea while you're watching a movie ... of course, it only works for U.S. money.

diego martinez

that is my favorite orson welles film, and high in the running for my favorite film of all time. that anthony perkins performance is lights-out amazing

BullydogBear

Robert Mitchum is terrifying in that film - he gave me nightmares as a child.

quenginerd

I first saw this movie when I was quite young and impressionable and it scared the bejesus out of me, especially the ending. I became a forever fan of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense. Fortunately he has a large catalog to discover and enjoy.

Ben Abel

"She's wrapped in plastic"

Kimmie Koneko

Anthony Perkins is also unforgettably great in Orson Welles' "The Trial" from 1962. Both Hitchcock and Welles though did kinda "typecast" him, in as far as him being a well-known closeted gay actor (who was undergoing "conversion therapy" at the time), who performed their "lovable motherloving psycho" as per 60s psychoanalysis.

Jacob King

I definitely know the feeling you’re talking about where an old movie surprises you with how modern it is but Psycho is an all time great. Another black and white horror suggestion is The Night of The Hunter.

BullydogBear

2012’s “Hitchcock” staring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren is a pretty good retelling of how Hitch basically risked everything to make Psycho. A lot of firsts in this movie - but the biggest one was killing off of who the star/presumed protagonist 1/3 of the way in - nothing like that had ever been done before.

Gary Poussard

Wasnt it also the first movie to show a flushing toilet?

Red Maru

2:43PM… 10 minutes before Mr C gonna hold in all his garmonbozia and wreck his Town Car. Lol. You should do Vertigo as well when you’re on Hitchcock!

NatalieShark

When I was about 15, my dad rented this for my brother and I to watch. Afterwards we were like "That wasn't scary." And then I went and took a shower and got so much soap in my eyes from suddenly checking for silhouettes on the shower curtain. I still do that.

somewhere in October

holy crap!

Dirk Diggler

Just to give you an idea how much she stole. $40,000 in 1960 has the same purchasing power as about $437,805–$438,919 in 2025 or $615,000 Canadian dollars.😱

Ronnie

Hitchcock changed movies forever. Before Psycho, Gothic horror stories dominated cinema (Frankenstein, Dracula, Edgar Allen Poe, etc). Hitch even acknowledged what he was doing symbolically: he put the Victorian era house up the hill and brought the horror story down the path to a modern day motel. And Psycho II is a surprisingly very good sequel you will definitely enjoy.

Dirk Diggler

The young lady in the office is Alfred Hitchcock's daughter. Also listen to the opening music to the Re-Animator, they obviously borrowed it from Psycho.