Welcome to the 31 Days of Halloween in Movies.
Hello Friends, and welcome to “Blogtober” and the 31 Days of Halloween. Today is Day #4 in the series, and I’m featuring another movie. For more information about this series, check out the Day #1 Kick-Off.
This is Week #1, and the theme is Psychological Horror. There are so many movies in this subgenre of horror, but I’ve only chosen a few for this short first week.
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📼 About today’s feature 📼
Day #4
MOVIE: Psycho
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1960
IMDB Rating: 8.5
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Horror
Runtime: 1h 49m
Tomato 🍅 Meter: 97%
Starring: Anthony Perkins ✨ Janet Leigh ✨ Vera Miles ✨
SYNOPSIS: Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel. She meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a complicated relationship with his mother. [TRAILER]
MY RATING [0-5]: (✨✨✨✨✨) This film is a classic, and I’ve never met a Hitchcock film I didn’t like. While premiering in 1960, it still delivers and has stood the test of time within its genre. Its infamous shower scene changed the fabric of horror movies because Hitchcock was creating a never-before-seen art. His films continue to spark classroom discussions and appear as topics in many forums.
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