Psycho: Facets of Filmmaking

Psycho, in many ways, turned out to be the little movie that could.  When the idea for it was first pitched, nobody but Hitchcock himself thought it’d succeed. The film was originally based on Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel with the same name, a novel based on the story of Ed Gein, a murderer and grave-robber

Psycho: Facets of Film

While it’s true that the most important elements of a movie are the story, genre, and characters, none of those things can come to life without the actual movie-making itself. Between camerawork, set design, costuming, music, special effects, and the performances of the actors themselves, there’s a whole lot that goes into the making of

Psycho: A Product of the Times

1960 was an interesting year. Bridging the gap of the 1950s to the 1960s, the first year of the new decade was both the last hurrah of the outwardly ‘squeaky clean’ ‘50s, and the beginning of a new decade fraught with change and unrest.  The Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the continued strain