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Psycho
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PSYCHO is a horror film which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced in Hollywood in 1960. Perhaps no other film changed Hollywood’s perception of the horror film as drastically as did PSYCHO. Here Hitchcock indulged in nudity, bloodbaths, necrophilia, transvestism, schizophrenia, and a host of other taboos and got away with it. The violence and bloodletting of PSYCHO may look tame to those who have grown up on Jason and Freddy Krueger, but no one had ever seen anything like it in 1960. Inspired by the life of the demented, cannibalistic Wisconsin killer Ed Gein, PSYCHO is probably Hitchcock’s most gruesome and dark film. Its enduring influence comes not only from the Norman Bates character, but also from the psychological themes Hitchcock develops.
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