Film Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho'

The movie Psycho was filmed in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie focuses on a woman named Marion Crane. It starts when she steal 40,000 dollars from her boss to run away with her boyfriend. It’s late and she decides to check into a motel, the Bates Motel. At the motel, she encounters a middle-aged man named Norman Bates. He becomes morbidly obsessed with her. But he then kills her…dressed as his dead mom. There is a show that acts as a prequel to Hitchcock’s masterpiece; Bates Motel. It is focused on Norman Bates and his mother, Norma Bates whereas the movie is focused on Marion Craine.

“Psycho” is a classic suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which features a central female protagonist, a seemingly ordinary young woman named Marion Crane, who crosses paths with a dangerous mentally ill motel owner, Norman Bates. As their strange relationship develops, a dominant theme of good versus evil is introduced to the audience through the use of characterisation, editing, mise-en-scene and various other media techniques.

Psycho is a 1960 American film directed by Alfred Hitchock. The screenplay of the movie written by Joseph Stefano was inspired by the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch on the year 1959. This film is categorized into the horror-thriller genre of film. The starring was Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, Vera Miles as Lila Crane and John Gravin as San Loomis.

Psycho a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock was created for the purpose of inciting fear and suspense to engage its audience.

American Psycho is a movie adaptation directed by Marry Harron released in the year 2000 that was based off of the 1991 novel of the same name authored by Bret Easton Ellis. The movie focuses on the main character Patrick Bateman who is an investment banker in New York in the era of the early 1980’s. Patrick is a perfectionist whose life by day seemingly rotates between his picture-perfect job, his superficial relationship with his fiancée Evelyn, and his shallow interaction with his co-workers and peers. By night, Patrick is a textbook Psychopath and a serial killer.

While trying to figure out what to do with the body they go have a look at the cook Mrs. Ho to find her murdered in the kitchen, with the knife in her back. On coming back to the study Mr. Boddy has vanished to be later found bleeding from the head in the washroom attacked with the candlestick.

Alfred Hitchcock’s film Shadow of a Doubt is a true masterpiece. Hitchcock brings the perfect mix of horror, suspense, and drama to a small American town. One of the scenes that exemplifies his masterful style takes place in a bar between the two main characters, Charlie Newton and her uncle Charlie. Hitchcock was quoted as saying that Shadow of a Doubt, “brought murder and violence back in the home, where it rightly belongs.” This quote, although humorous, reaffirms the main theme of the film: we find evil in the places we least expect it. Through careful analysis of the bar scene, we see how Hitchcock underlies and reinforces this theme through the setting, camera angles,

The Film, "Psycho" directed by Alfred Hitchcock, effectively presented the ideas of murder and schizophrenia through the use of characters, particularly with the double-sided Norman Bates. Sound and visual techniques were also depicted quite well.

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born August 13th, 1989 and passed away on April 29th, 1980. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English film director and producer; at times he was referred to as "The Master of Suspense". He leads many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. The genre for Psycho is suspense and thriller which keeps viewers thinking and watching. The film Psycho was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released on September 8, 1960 staring a Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), who was on the run after embezzling $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her mate, Sam Loomis (John Gavin). Marion is then overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid

In 1940, a film adaptation is made. Its directed by John Ford. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck. This film is loosely based on the movie with countless differences, including an entirely different ending. As the film progresses, it veers further and further away from staying true to the novel. Overall the film brought an interesting interpretation to the novel and even introduced some of its own ideas and themes. The movie won Oscars for best director and best actress (Jane Darwell as Ma Joad) and was nominated for five others, including best actor for Henry Fonda and best picture.

Alfred Hitchcock was a renowned film director known for his elements of suspense and psychological thrillers. His most popular work Psycho is adapted from a novel of the same name written by Robert Bloch. The story of a phoenix secretary (Marion Crane) who embezzled money from a client is used to unveil the psycho in the male character (Norman Bates). The success of the film is greatly relied on Hitchcock’s unique techniques in creating tension and suspense. Elements that contributed to the success of the film include motifs, and narrative perspective used.

During the night, as she is showering, getting ready for bed, a dark shadow figure comes behind the shower curtains and stabs Marion to death with a knife. Later on, Norman finds out about Marion’s death, he immediately blames it on her mother. He then carefully cleans up the crime scene, then he placed Marion’s dead body, possessions and all the money into the trunk of her car. He than sank her car in a flood of water near the motel.

This is the first episode that we are seeing Norman function without his mother in his life after his murder-suicide plot was foiled last season by Sheriff Romero. Unfortunately, Norma died (or so we thought), and Norman lived to answer for his crimes. Only Sheriff Romero can prove that Norman killed Norma and several other women, sadly to say Romero was picked up at the end of last season by the Feds charging him with perjury and now sits in prison.

Then we see Norman go a little crazy. She kills a man, stabbing him several times after he attempts to rape her. Norman sees it and helps his mom cover it up. We see him as he begins to black out and can see him change. Norman also seems to hallucinate while in these black-outs or fugue states. He sees his mom who tells him while he is in this state that everything is his fault and he needs to fix it. However in the process he gets woken up. His mom then asks what he is doing and he tells her he is doing what she told him to do. She says that she did not tell him to do that. She then realizes that Norman is having blackout episodes but protects him instead of getting him help. Norman can not remember anything from his fugue states. Later we learn that Norman killed his dad. His dad was fighting with Norma and it was getting physical. Norman was washing dishes and blacks out and then hits his dad over the head killing him. Norma is shocked and then tells Norman to go to his room, as he is still out of it and he goes to his room. That is when Norma moves the body to the garage and sets it up like he died from an accident. She protects Norman. After Norman "wakes up" from the black out, he finds his dad and does not remember anything. He believes his dad fell and hit his head. He thought it was an accident, later on in the show he starts to suspect his mother of killing his father. At this time Norman is also having normal teenage moments and

Before the Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock made its way into theaters across the world, film was produced in a completely different way. Some of the elements that were in Psycho were things that nobody saw in movies before. According to Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman, when the movie came out, it took place in “an atmosphere of dark and stifling ‘50s conformity” and that the elements of the film “tore through the repressive ‘50s blandness just a potently as Elvis had.” (Hudson). Alfred Hitchcock changed the way that cinema was made by breaking away from the old, “safe” way of creating a movie and decided to throw all of the unwritten rules of film making out the window. The main ways he accomplished this task was by adding graphic violence, sexuality, and different ways to view the film differently than any other movie before its time.