Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was controversial when it opened in 1960. Though technically a thriller, it redefined the horror genre in one fell swoop and created the template for the slasher movies ...

I tend to shorten it, with ascription to Mordden, as “in the fifties, if you listened to James Dean or Marlon Brando, society crumbled. In 1960, if you listened to Mother, you were psycho.” ...

The Film: Psycho Director: Alfred Hitchcock Produced in a time when many horror auteurs were expanding the boundaries of the genre via experimentation with modernized, upscaled production, such as ...

Just to give you a little rundown of the plot, Pyscho is a 1960 horror film directed by Hitchcock, in which real-estate secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) steals money from her company to pay ...

When Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” opened on June 16, 1960, the subject matter was shocking. By today’s standards, the most shocking thing about the film was its distribution — a slow ...

In the Psycho trailer, the esteemed director walks the audience through the sets, including the Bates Motel and its adjacent creepy house. There’s no footage of its stars, Janet Leigh or Anthony ...

This film laid the groundwork for Italian giallo and the slasher craze with its terrifying point-of-view killings. Watch it alone and this film will creep you out. Official trailer for "Psycho," 1960.

Brenda Bruce as a victim caught in the cross-hairs of a viewfinder in “Peeping Tom” (1960), which, along with “Psycho” the same year, pushed the boundaries of the audience-screen relationship.

Nino Rota’s indelible score was nominated, briefly. But it was quickly disqualified when the Academy learned that his love theme had actually originated in a 1958 Italian film. The Academy made ...