{"id":9092,"date":"2020-06-16T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/psycho-at-60-how-hitchcocks-classic-tapped-our-worst-fears\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:30:00","slug":"psycho-at-60-how-hitchcocks-classic-tapped-our-worst-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/psycho-at-60-how-hitchcocks-classic-tapped-our-worst-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Psycho\u2019 at 60: How Hitchcock\u2019s classic tapped our worst fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Psycho\u2019 at 60: How Hitchcock\u2019s classic tapp<\/a>ed our worst fears<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s \u201cPsycho\u201d was released 60 years ago today, and though it is considered by many, including me, to be the greatest horror movie ever made, it\u2019s one that achieves the singular feat of scaring you to your soul without monsters or demons. Of course, you could say that it does have one: Anthony Perkins\u2019 stammering, bird-eyed Norman Bates, the nebbish motel clerk who thinks, at certain moments, that he\u2019s his mother \u2014 and that she\u2019s the killer inside him. Yet Norman is a monster of warped humanity; he\u2019s a nervous schizoid freak.<\/p>\n

The booby trap of \u201cPsycho,\u201d the joke of it, and the endlessly rewatchable pleasure and profundity of it is that Norman is one sick puppy, but the movie keeps fooling you into thinking it\u2019s the tale of a grander, more metaphysically unsettling evil. The Bates house looks like a haunted mansion out of the 19th century. The character of Mrs. Bates (\u201cNaw-<\/em>man!\u201d)<\/em> is like a Victorian ghost who haunts it. And, in a sense, she is<\/em> a ghost. She\u2019s just the ghost who happens to live in the fruit cellar of Norman\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

When \u201cPsycho\u201d came out, you might say that it ripped the 20th century in half. Before \u201cPsycho,\u201d we had a movie culture in which everyone huddled together in the dark to be thrilled, moved, tickled, and \u2014 yes \u2014 frightened, with the promise that we were all in it together, and that a happy ending awaited us on the other side. That cosmic reassurance wasn\u2019t just a product of the Hollywood studio system. It expressed a worldview that was, in essence, religious: that movies<\/a> unfolded in a larger-than-life realm guided by epic forces, and that there was a beauty, order, and symmetry to them. Even monster movies and tales of supernatural terror, from \u201cFrankenstein\u201d to \u201cThe War of the Worlds,\u201d reinforced the feeling that the universe made sense, and that goodness would triumph.<\/p>\n

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Janet Leigh\u2019s \u201cPsycho\u201d shower scene terrified audiences.<\/span>Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cPsycho\u201d kicked the rug, and the floor, out from under all that. The shock of the shower scene wasn\u2019t just that someone was being slaughtered before our eyes, or that she was the heroine of the film and therefore the last person you\u2019d expect to die a third of the way through it. No, the shower scene, in a mere 45 seconds, tossed the entire aesthetic of Hollywood out the window, and with it the mythic sense that life was something that could and would protect you. The scene shows the brutal death of Janet Leigh\u2019s Marion Crane, but what it really records is the death of God on film. If Norman\u2019s mother was the killer inside him, Norman, the movie suggested, was the killer inside all of us. And that was the only monster that a monster movie now needed.<\/p>\n

I first saw \u201cPsycho\u201d in the late \u201970s when I was in college, and the thing I remember about that initial viewing is that in addition to being a Hollywood classic, the movie was now cool. The song \u201cPsycho Killer,\u201d by Talking Heads (released as a single in December 1977), had something to do with that. David Byrne wrote it to capitalize on his resemblance to Anthony Perkins, and Byrne\u2019s whole spooked-preppie charisma lent a new cachet to \u201cPsycho.\u201d The film\u2019s violence, in a way, had become punk. And what made it even more so is that \u201cPsycho,\u201d in addition to being the cinematic bible of Brian De Palma, gave birth to the entire genre of slasher films, which attained a barbarous artistry with the 1974 release of \u201cThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre.\u201d (The first murder committed by Leatherface is a total shock-theater sequel to the shower scene.) By the time that the \u201cHalloween\u201d and \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d franchises took over, \u201cPsycho\u201d had come to seem nothing less than the template for modern movie horror.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Perkins played Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s 1960 movie \u201cPsycho.\u201d<\/span>Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But, of course, there was another template \u2014 the movie that most people, today, would probably name as the scariest film ever made (with \u201cPsycho\u201d coming in at number two), and that\u2019s \u201cThe Exorcist.\u201d And what \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d reasserted was the power of the supernatural war between good and evil. \u201cPsycho\u201d was a Freudian death-of-God gothic funhouse; \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d was a post-Freudian God-comes-back-to-kill-the-devil gross-out parable. The irony is that \u201cPsycho\u201d is a movie I return to again and again, because there\u2019s an eternal mystery to it (it may be the ultimate movie that invites you to watch yourself watching it), whereas \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d is a film about cosmic evil that\u2019s as literal as a tabloid news<\/a> story. Maybe that\u2019s why I\u2019ve never found it particularly frightening.<\/p>\n

The original primal shock value of \u201cPsycho\u201d is probably hard for any of us who didn\u2019t grow up with the film to imagine. And I\u2019d guess that if you were seeing it for the first time today, \u201cPsycho\u201d might not even be all that scary. Too much of what was radical about it has long been incorporated into the new megaplex normal. If you watch \u201cPsycho\u201d now, you\u2019re almost surely doing it at home, and while I think the film works marvelously on the small screen, especially late at night, in theaters \u2014 where I\u2019ve seen it any number of times \u2014 it used to have the effect of a midnight black mass.<\/p>\n

Sixty years ago, Hitchcock fashioned \u201cPsycho,\u201d in its very cells, as a film to be experienced with an audience. But now, for the first time, that idea is starting to seem quaint \u2014 or maybe even, God forbid, outdated. In terms of sheer influence, \u201cThe Exorcist,\u201d for the moment, seems to outweigh \u201cPsycho.\u201d Our current age of cinematic horror is much more about devils and zombies and splatterific sensation than it is about laying a trap for the viewer that reveals the beast within. Yet \u201cPsycho,\u201d 60 years ago, did more than change movies. It mirrored, and maybe influenced, a change in the world, demonstrating that terror could now strike out of nowhere, and at the heart of everything we believe in. The movie showed us things to be fearful of, like a motel shower. But what it really showed us was fear itself.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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