bernard herman is wonderful. i prefer his score for taxi driver but psycho is still amazing. im working on a solo guitar arrangement of the opening piece and it fits the guitar well.

yes atari2600-the aftermath of the stabbing is probably one of my favorite scenes in a film. the simpsons parody is perfect.

also i heard that psycho was the first hollywood film to ever show a toilet. a groundbreaking film in many ways.

Exactly....the Taxi Driver score is the best!!!

that's right it was!

about the toilet. damn, it might just be the greatest movie ever!

the scene in Citizen Kane where Welles drops the snowglobe & utters "rosebud" as he dies is up there too, if not maybe #1.

Yeah, when they did the original Star Wars before the score was added (apparently you put fake music in before the real score) they put the Psycho theme in the scene where they come out of the hiding compartments. John Williams thought it was so good for the scene he incorporated it into the soundtrack.


It is probably my favorite Hitchcock film too. Rear Window comes close. I also really love Strangers on a Train, North By Northwest, the Man Who Knew Too Much (James Stewart version), and Vertigo.

Mel Brooks' High Anxiety is a great Vertigo spoof by the way.

yeah the taxi driver score is better than drugs! the way the music comes in with the dirty streets of nyc...fuck

The Vince Vaugh one was on last night. I watched half of it.

I'ev never seen the OG version, though... In fact, I've never seen a Hitchcock film.

You have to. He's a fricking genius. Incredibly underrated. He is right up there with Kubrick in my mind.

we had some cool Hitchcock threads at the old board.

My favorite Hitchcock scenes:
Psycho- The end dialogue. That seals in the movie for me.
Rear Window- The scene where the bad guy is coming at him and all he has for defense is his flash (Saw sort of ripped this scene off)
The Man Who Knew Too Much- the scene where Doris Day is standing at the entrance to the Albert Hall and she is completely frantic.
North By Northwest- The crop duster sequence

I want to see Rope really badly. I heard it was filmed in 10 shots, and they were all cut to where the transistions are unnoticable.

the birds was kind of lame. i mean birds? come on.

the menace in some of those scenes like the one with the birds on the playground was amazing tho. hitchcock almost made this shit fly.

Psycho is classic, it basically plays on the audience's fear of being alone and vulnerable. A woman is showering, at her most vulnerable, and audiences then would never have expected her to be attacked. Also, she is set up as the main character in the beginnning, so another convention is destroyed. Wonderful; and this was in 1960. And what about that incest overtones... Phew...

absolutely...Rope is a very underrated one...yeah one must-see it because of the one location & the long shots...like a play. We discussed Rope a good bit at the old board Hitch threads. There's so many docs, but there's a really great Hitchcock documentary that played last year on some premium channels, i can't remember the name of it or find it on the internet...