Secretary, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), is on the run after stealing money from her employer in Phoenix. Traveling back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the remote Bates Motel where she meets the polite but odd proprietor, Norman (Anthony Perkins)… a young man with an interest in taxidermy who has a difficult relationship with his mother.
Alfred Hitchcock gave the world Psycho in 1960, obliterating film and genre-conventions left and right, and delivering an iconic monument that still stands tall in the canon of American films. Join us as we discuss the revolutionary aspects that lift this work above genre categorization to film classic. Listen, as Johnny Has the Keys takes you to an isolated hotel where madness and murder dwell and the only sounds are those of crickets, a distant highway, and a scream.
SHOW LINKS
- Trailer (Vera Miles in Wig)
- Hitchcock
- Janet Leigh
- Shattering conventions
- Psycho’s Greatness
- The shower scene
- Bernard Herrmann
- Robert Bloch
- The novel
- Jamie Leigh Curtis
- Halloween
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Diabolique
- Brian De Palma
- Dressed to Kill
- Body Double
- Psycho II
- Psycho (remake)
- Thirteen Women
- M
- And Then There Were None
- Bates Motel
- Memory: The origins of Alien
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