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Imagine being a teenager, even an adult in the theaters in 1960. Their minds had to been blown. Hitchcock was a genius.

@QueensLadyDay

3 ай бұрын

In 1960, I was a teenager and saw Psycho at the DeMille (NYC "theater district"-47th st. ) with my parents. The line to enter wrapped around the block. It was the first time patrons were forced to see a film from the beginning or they were denied entrance to the movie. This was an absolute requirement made by Mr. Hitchcock which only heightened the anticipation. So much fun! Every seat was taken!🙂

@seank.9764

3 ай бұрын

Love hearing first hand accounts like yours. To have seen Psycho on first release at the DeMille is an historic event and a great memory to possess. The display they erected there (Janet Leigh in her legendary bra!) was four stories high and wrapped around the building. What a magnificent era for film! I’m envious. I was born in 1964 and the closest I came to such an experience was back in 2010 when they showed the film with a live orchestra accompaniment. It was truly awesome and the huge venue was packed. It felt like 1960 again!

@Cbcw76

5 күн бұрын

We don't have to imagine at all - just look at ALL of these oh-so-sophisticated, modern, hip reactors NOW. See how ALL of them react NOW. And NONE of these reactions take place in jammed theaters, like the 1960's audience endured. This is a frequent film included in film-festivals... go see it in those theatres - it will be a experience far beyond home-video watching.

That $40,000 Marion stole in 1960 would equal $415,000 in today’s money.

@Muckylittleme

24 күн бұрын

And that is how the ultra wealthy keep us poor, generation to generation, inflation and devaluation.

Anthony Perkins did a great job playing norman bates

@NovemberReigne

2 ай бұрын

He sure did!

There were no other customers at the motel because the main highway was moved further away so very few people traveled that road. That is essentially what happened with Route 66. It was a main highway which had many businesses that depended on travelers. Eventually a better freeway was built, traffic was rerouted and a lot of the businesses on route 66 went out of business because they were getting less traffic coming through.

The other secretary in the office was played by Hitchcock's daughter.

@NovemberReigne

2 ай бұрын

She was in three of her father's movies

@johnnehrich9601

2 ай бұрын

@@NovemberReigne Yes, long after I wrote my reply, I queried Mr./Ms Google, he (or she) told me Pat Hitchcock was in three of Alfred's films. She was also the daughter with glasses in Strangers on a Train, who looked enough like the murder victim to unnerve the killer, and in Stage Fright (which I just realized I've NEVER seen - hmmm). She just died in 2021 (born 1928 long life).

Hi Jayy, now that you've seen how suspenseful a Hitchcock movie can be, I HIGHLY recommend you check out his masterpiece "Rear Window". It's a fantastic film that will emotionally involve you as much, if not more, than "Psycho".

Hitchcock has so many good movies.

I saw it with my girl friend at age 15 in 1960. She took baths for months. That cop was the "coppiest" looking cop I've ever seen. Vera Miles is a beauty.

@NovemberReigne

2 ай бұрын

Vera Miles was beautiful and is still alive at 94

Jayy, keep in mind a few things: in 1960, this movie was a first - nothing like it had been done before. Secondly, the advertisement predominantly featured Janet Leigh on the poster - without giving any hint as to what the movie was about. Third is the film's gimmick: You had to see the movie from the beginning. If you were five minutes later to the movie, too bad - you waited two hours until It started again. So people paid their money, sat down, the movie started. And for forty-five minutes people THOUGHT they were watching a movie about a woman who stole money. So by the time she stepped into the shower, the audience was probably just a tad bit bored. So imagine in 1960 you think you're seeing the story about a woman whole steels money, then out of the blue this really violent murder happens - the most violent scene of it's time, with blood included. The star of the movie was already dead - and the film wasn't even half over. THAT is what the shock was. From that point on, nobody knew what to expect and THAT is why it was so terrifying in 1960. So people discovering the movie now think "well, it's good - but what is so scary about it? There's only two murders in the film." But if you know NOTHING about the film, it's amazing that 63 years after it's release this movie STILL works. So glad you reacted the way you did. It validates what I said. Hehe.

And just when you think the nightmare is over, Master Hitchcock comes with The Birds (1963), the film that he released after this one. Another great thrill movie in a completely diferent way!!! 😉

Great reaction! FYI Jayy, the blood in the shower scene was chocolate syrup.

Great reaction. This is what in-theater audiences have done for decades since. And just imagine going thru that reaction with a thousand-packed theater - all at the same time!

The shower scene murder is unforgettable and gut wrenching.

@timd.3837

8 ай бұрын

Especially when one realizes that you never actually see a single one of the stabbings ~ instead allowing our minds to fill in what our eyes don't see. Far different from the slasher movies of the 1980's and beyond. John Carpenter kind of stuck to that formula in the original Halloween movie, before everyone started trying to outdo each other in terms of gore and special effects.

@paulinegallagher7821

8 ай бұрын

Whats scary is the use of light; bates is all in shadow but you get the odd glimpse of crazy eyes, and it looks chilling. The editing is insane. Also thats not actually Anthony Perkins, they used a tall, female stand in

@eliasshaikh2065

8 ай бұрын

This was pretty much the first “slasher” scene movie, all the horror movies with knife murderers and scary shower/bath scenes have been inspired by the shower scene in this movie (unless I’m mistaken). The instrument music in the scary scenes were deliberately high pitched designed to sound like screaming.

@eliasshaikh2065

8 ай бұрын

Anthony Perkins was a VERY talented actor, and he was also good at comedy.

@genghispecan

8 ай бұрын

@@eliasshaikh2065 Truth. It was so sad that his role in Psycho left him typecast for life - but a testament to the impression he made.

My friend Dorothy's father composed the music for this film, considered one of the best film scores of all time.

@MsAppassionata

8 ай бұрын

Did you ever get to meet him?

@robertjewell9727

8 ай бұрын

@@MsAppassionata no. he died in 1975.

@MsAppassionata

8 ай бұрын

@@robertjewell9727 You mean he, don’t you? 😂

@robertjewell9727

8 ай бұрын

@@MsAppassionata he?

@robertjewell9727

8 ай бұрын

Oh, I see. Don't know how missed that. Corrected. Many thanks.

The married office worker is Alfred Hitchcock‘s daughter Pat

FYI: Vivian Liegh is the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis. Father was Tony Cutis. Also, Norman Bates was inspired by Ed Gein. Also inspired the Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.

@rainlori

4 ай бұрын

Janet Leigh.

@HuntingViolets

2 ай бұрын

You might want to edit this.

The amazing filmwork in the shower scene...the knife never touches her. It's all in the camera angles and in the viewers head.

'Psycho II' (1983) is a MUST WATCH now for you xx

This was the 1st toilet flushing allowed in a Hollywood film:

Psycho was released in 1960 - Psycho II in 1983 (after Hitchock's death in 1980) when everyone started making sequels to horror movies. So, the short answer is that the other movies are quite different from the original aside from actor Anthony Perkins reprising his role as Norman Bates. Still good watches for anyone who enjoyed the original. Just don't expect them to be the level of a Hitchcock movie. Hitchcock's movie 'The Birds' (1965) was his take on the whole "humans versus nature" subgenre that became popular in the 1950's and launched a whole new wave of such movies that has continued well into the 2000's. Obviously the visual effects are very dated, but still a good movie. Hitchcock really hit his stride in the 1950's and early 1960's with his focus on suspense/thrillers.

@QueensLadyDay

8 ай бұрын

AH had already directed over 50 movies before doing 'Psycho'. Some are also well known classics..(Lifeboat, Shadow of a doubt, etc) . Also, 'Psycho' was filmed by AH's tv series crew (AH Presents) to save money.

That was SO fun! Especially when you jumped at the scary parts. Thanks!

if i didnt have my stuffed granny here to comfort me, id have trouble sleeping after this

@Steve-gx9ot

6 ай бұрын

I understand where u r coming from. I hope cops don't search trunk of my car and find the bodies there! P K ease don't tell them about that, Friend...❤❤😮

@Steve-gx9ot

6 ай бұрын

also, perhaps your granny needs re-stuffing?? I am a part-time taxidermist. I could do it on Hump-day = Wednesday. Thank you in advance, Sir😂❤🎉

I have watched several people react to this. YOU are the first to notice that we are to be suspicious of the cop. We don't know who the psycho is going in, so the director is messing with us. Well done, Javy! 9:45: "She shouldn't have gave him her license." Actually, you are REQUIRED to if asked. Driving is a privilege for which you must be licensed. It makes no difference whether or not you have done anything wrong. Know the law or suffer the consequences.

@HuntingViolets

2 ай бұрын

You are not necessarily required to if asked. It depends on the state, and she was not stopped driving. She was stopped napping after pulling over. I don't know what the law was where she was at the time.

CLASSIC!! Watch "BIRDS" if you wanna be traumatized!😊

@watchwithjayy

8 ай бұрын

Then I think I’ll avoid that one lol

@HuntingViolets

2 ай бұрын

@@watchwithjayy It's not so bad.

Just wanna say.Great movie and even greater reaction. Norman never had a chance. If he hadn't lost his father so young, he might have had a chance. Being left alone with his clingy and domineering mother sealed his fate. Part of me felt sorry for him, the other part was disgusted. And yes I am one of the many who stopped taking showers when I finally saw this movie a few years back. It's an irrational fear I know. It is what it is. Please do more creepy movies. You made me jump a couple of times. Thanks for the reaction. Most enjoyable indeed.

@MsAppassionata

8 ай бұрын

You are not alone. Many people had the same reaction when they saw that shower scene. It still creeps me out if I hear a strange noise when in the shower.

Try The Omen, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, The Fourth Kind, etc.

Hi Jayy! This is actually a good movie to watch if you’re scared of horror or if you haven’t seen so many of them you are immune to the gore. You have to remember this was made almost 65 years ago now. I would consider it the grandmother of all slashers. Because of the movie codes, this movie was pushing the boundaries of what they allowed at the time. They weren’t allowed to show red blood, so the movie had to be made in black-and-white. The opening bedroom scene and the shower scene were pushing the limits of what was allowed for sex and nudity at the time.

The silhouettes in the window was not Norman’s mother but Norman walking around dressed as his mother.

@NovemberReigne

2 ай бұрын

Norman was truly psycho

Hitchcock used Hershey chocolate syrup for blood during the shower scene.

It's not about what happens in this movie. It's the thought that some people around may live in a same kind of parallel reality as Norman Bates does that's scary. :D

This is your best reaction yet Jayy

The background music while you analyzing the movie in the end is great haha

Great reaction. I do just want to clarify something that seems to be difficult for people today to grasp, and for the life of me, I don't understand why. The Police absolutely have the right to ask for your ID. She had no record, so it didn't do much good, but even though the cop seemed creepy, his instincts were correct, because after all, she was a criminal that just took off with someone else's 40k! If you aren't hiding anything, it's best to let them do their jobs so they can get out of your hair. He seemed creepy, but she was being sketchy as hell. 😂

@garylee3685

8 ай бұрын

A cop has no right to ask you for ID unless you committed a traffic infraction of some kind. 4th amendment.

@paulinegallagher7821

8 ай бұрын

@@garylee3685 Not true, the cops can ask you for ID for any number of reasons. They absolutely have the right to ask, as its not illegal for them to do so.

@dipsydoodle7988

8 ай бұрын

@@garylee3685 wrong.

@takethesky8478

8 ай бұрын

@@dipsydoodle7988you’re both right. While on duty, an offer has the right to ask for your identification but not the authority to demand it unless he has reasonable grounds to suspect he or she has committed a crime. I mean he was a creep cop, kind of but his hunch was correct after all

@dipsydoodle7988

8 ай бұрын

@@takethesky8478 the fourth amendment protects us from unreasonable search and seizure. That means they can't search your vehicle without your consent if you get pulled over. They cannot take anything from you, or from your vehicle without your consent. (I'm using this particular scenario since it was in the movie, but it applies to you walking down the street as well). That is the search and seizure part. It says nothing about the expectation law enforcement has to find out who you are. After all, you could be the escaped convict from 3 states away and it would be negligence on LE's part to let you park outside someone's home or on a freeway without at least making sure that you don't seem to pose a threat to citizens. Anyone who thinks a cop shouldn't at least ask you to identity yourself if they find you sleeping in a car on the side of a highway would be singing a different tune if that person broke into your home and killed your family later that day!

$40,000 was a lot of money in 1960. I think that’s equal to $400,000 today.

Me, Marcie and her mother enjoyed this reaction

The cop certainly had reason to follow her even not knowing that she was a real thief. She couldn't have acted more suspicious if she tried. Best. Mike.

"You're going to be in heaven together!" 🤣🤣🤣

Hey Jayy, the first time that I'd seen this movie, I was about 15 and it gave me nightmares for weeks! I still have issues closing my eyes in the shower, lol. Thank you for the reaction, I love your channel.

Did you notice Ted Knight as the guard who holds open the cell door and does not say a word?

@mildredpierce4506

8 ай бұрын

I’ve seen reactions to this movie dozens of times and I never noticed Ted Knight. Thank you for pointing it out.

@NovemberReigne

2 ай бұрын

I also heard that the late Robert Osbourne( TVM host) walked by Ted Knight in the hallway. He never spoke of his cameo role in Psycho.

I find it funny how most people watching Psycho today think the cop is a dangerous guy because he is doing his job by keeping an eye on a strange woman who is acting guilty as sin and has just stolen $40 grand and has the wrong answers to the questions.

Alfred Hitchcock had a real fear of cops. That’s why he had the cop in this movie seem menacing. That’s the way he viewed cops.

I really love your reactions!

Great reaction Jayy. Thank you for doing a reaction to the great Alfred Hitchcock, the greatest horror/suspense directors of his time. As good as Psycho is, my favorite movie of his for horror is The Birds." He has many more movies in his resume. Just a little tidbit, Jayy the star of Psycho is Janet Leigh, whose daughter became known as "scream queen of horror movies Jamie Lee Curtis. Think "Halloween " franchise(1978 _ 1998 (H20; 20 YEARS LATER) HALLOWEEN ENDS 2022). Have fun this October Jayy

Janet Leigh said years later that she was so traumatized after filming Psycho that she never took a shower again. (Many filmgoers probably felt the same way!) She took baths instead.

Might I suggest you next watch The Boston Strangler which features Janet Leigh's husband Tony Curtis and then watch Halloween which stars their daughter Jamie Lee Curtis.

@tracyyork1428

8 ай бұрын

Both are very good movies.

You might want to watch some comedy horror movies such as: Arsenic and Old Lace, The Ghost breakers (1940, nothing to do with Ghostbusters), or Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein.

You don't know how much fun I had when you were scared! I loved your reaction. You never let me down! Greetings from Tandil, Argentina! 🇦🇷🤗

Jay, I love watching Psycho reactions (I kind of use it as a yardstick to see if I'm going to enjoy someone's reactions in general) and I've watched SO many and I think you're the only person I've seen who actually got that Normal looks at the motel's guest register and has the realization that Marion introduced herself with a different name than the name she signed in with. I've seen other people assume he's looking at where she's from, thinking she won't be missed...Also, funny story, I grew up in the 80's, and parents (especially dads) were a lot less cautious about what their kids saw on television. I was probably about six or seven years old when I watched this on Saturday afternoon at my dad's house. He tried to cover my eyes at some parts, but I got the gist of what was going on. For YEARS after, he'd bring me back to my mom on Sunday and tell her I wouldn't shower at his house. They were both baffled because I loved taking baths at "home" (my mom's). It's because I was terrified of the SHOWER. I was sure someone would come murder me in the shower.

1st time I saw Psycho, I could not take a shower for 2 weeks...

Very good reaction video. Did you know that there's a "Psycho 2" and "Psycho 3"? You should react to them, since they're underrated movies.

@MLJ7956

8 ай бұрын

And there is a 4th one (which is both a sequel & a prequel)... Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)...starring Anthony Perkins back as Norman, Henry Thomas (Elliot from ET & ghost Jack Torrance from Stephen King's Doctor Sleep), Olivia Hussey (Jess from Black Christmas & Bill's wife Audra from Stephen King's IT TV miniseries), written by the original Psycho screenplay author Joseph Stefano and Directed by Mick Garris (who also directed Critters 2, Stephen King's: The Stand miniseries, Sleepwalkers & Desperation).

Great reaction ! The fact that you get scared easily just makes it better. I’m the same way. Hope you’ll watch more Hitchcock movies.

You are not the first to notice that Janet Leigh's eye twitches slightly.

Psycho II is (perhaps) surprisingly good, especially as it was made over 20 years after the original movie.

Psycho II is a great film.

The actress in the beginning ng is Jamie Lee curtis's real mom

The hotel room scene was very risqué for the time for it to be a main stream movie especially since the couple is not married. Even if characters were supposed to be married, they usually didn’t have anything this sexy in it. In several of Alfred Hitchcock‘s movies the main couple would have at least one very passionate scene and that was even in movies made in the 50s.

Sometimes its the humans who are the monsters

If you saw this movie 'way back when in a theater, you would have jumped out of your seat and screamed at the shower scene and the cellar scene! I did enjoy your reaction to PSYCHO, though. Thanks for a fun morning!

Already have my popcorn and dr pepper jay lol

The typical reason no one would be staying at a motel like this would be because when they built the interstate system, it bypassed the old highways, like Route 66, and all the little mom and pop restaurants and motels lost all their business.

Variety, 2023: 'Psycho best movie in history.'

"What a creep!" I've got news for you. You were looking right through that peephole with him

@watchwithjayy

8 ай бұрын

😂😂

Forty thousand in 1960 is the roughly equal to 400k plus today. On the other hand, today having that much cash would be very suspicious - he should have taken it to a bank and gotten a cashier's check instead of bringing it to the office for her to do that.

Very graphic for its time. The first slasher film. $40,000 is $400,000 in today's money. Janet Leigh (Jamie Lee Curtis's mom!) was a huge star, her dying half an hour into the film totally threw the audience. Tony Perkins had only ever played sweet, innocent cute boys, this changed his career forever. Check out Psycho II, made 22 years later.

I loved Psycho II - many of the original cast come back including Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, it was shit twenty years later in the 80’s so it’s not black and white but a great premise

PSYCHO 2 is a 20-years-later tale, picking up after Norman's been released from the hospital, and returns to the house, the same town and is - of course - picked on and taunted. This has a twist to it as well. I give this a good 80% compared to the original (and really nothing can come close). PSYCHO 3 is another continuation and, well, it's probably anotehr step down but, yes, see all three. It makes for a longer, and interesting tale.

She ended up at Bates Motel because she stayed on the old highway instead of the new highway like everyone else.

Can you imagine her showing up at his door with $40k ($414K in 2023) talking about here, can get married now? 😂

I loved your reactions!

How did I miss this? Awesome Jayy❤👍

Jayy, great reaction.

Psycho was the first movie that showed a human being could be an absolute monster, before this movie monsters were like Dracula the Wolfman, Frankenstein the Mummy actual monsters from the movie perspective whereas in Psycho Alfred Hitchcock said people could be monsters as well. A few years before he made this movie there was a serial killer by the name of Ed Gein, he was the inspiration for Hitchcock in making this movie Ed Gein was a crossdressing, cannibalistic, Necrophiliac. if you want to read something or see something even much creepier and disturbing that this movie learn about that and I promise even if it has been nearly 70 years since Gein did his sickening deeds if you are like most people, you might have a little trouble sleeping that night.

Great reaction x

Love your Inuyasha wall art!

Jayy -- fabulous response to a great movie! For too many people, the twists in the story are already out there in pop culture -- so their reactions are ruined to an extent. HEY! Since you are not altogether comfortable with horror films (and yet this is the season for them) I would seriously urge you to check out Arsenic and Old Lace from 1944. It is my favorite Halloween film!! I see it every year instead of the horror flicks. It is still a GREAT comedy! You'll be glad you checked it. Give yourself a break this season!

Now you gotta watch Psycho 2!

@JacobRamirez-li9dt

8 ай бұрын

Psycho 2 is SOOOO good! Underrated for sure.

I like psycho but I am not a horror movie fan. Horror movies used to scare me until I decided that no movie is going to scare me because it’s just a movie. It’s just made up it’s just acting it’s just a script. I still don’t watch horror movies but if I did watch one it would not scare me.

There is Psycho 2, Psycho 3, Psycho 4 and the remake.

Must do a reaction to Rear Window; Vertigo, Strangers on A Train, Dial M for Murder, The Birds, Rope, North by Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt and The Man That Knew Too Much; all by Alfred Hitchcock

Janet Leigh was the mother of Jamie Leigh curtis

@MLJ7956

8 ай бұрын

They were both in John Carpenter's: The Fog (1980) & in Halloween H20 (1998) together (and in H20, Janet even drove the same car, year make, model & color, from Psycho) 😉

@Denisedale-pm1mm

8 ай бұрын

Also both appeared in one of the Halloween films

@Denisedale-pm1mm

8 ай бұрын

And her ex husband was Tony Curtis

6:30 $40,000 back in 1960 was like a half million today. 7:44 Cop - - "There are plenty of motels in this area. I mean, just to be safe." Ha-ha. Not real good advice after all.

new viewer here..loved your reaction....

The cop is suspicious of her and he is right. He is doing his job.

jay, after watching this, you also might want to psycho II, III, and IV.......and yes, that are freaky!!!

There’s no doubt that Norman is psycho, but ngl, I low key feel bad for him. You see how much his mother had a hold on him to the point he couldn’t escape even after her death. You can’t look over the fact that he was the one who killed her, and that completely severed any sanity he had left. This is just my opinion of course. I first saw this movie when I was a kid go figure, in the late 70’s, early 80’s, and it’s still a great movie.

I have no idea why you believe the cop was "creepy". It seems "younger" people have an obsession with that word. He had every justification to ask for her licence, and to follow and see what's she's up to. If Marian had acted normally to begin with he would never have treated her with such suspicion.

watch the sequel

Great reaction! I definitely recommend you watch psycho 2. To me, it's just as good if not better than the original

I think the entire first part of the story with all the tension was there merely to distract the audience.

haha great reaction! Especially the shower scene! You're awesome. Subscribing for sure

Ahhh, Alfred Hitchcock...the master of horror/suspense! I heard such frightening things about the infamous shower scene, that I never even watched the film until near middle age! I did watch Hitchcock's 'The Birds' when I was young, and let me tell you, for years, every time I saw a bunch of birds lined up on a telephone wire, I would nearly hyperventilate! Hitchcock was a master at causing our own imagination to be the the most terrifying thing of all (& in my humble opinion, The Birds is his best film.) GREAT reaction, Miss Jayy!! (I hope to be back to your music reactions soon. But you know my situation, and it's getting kind of bad. I also have an email to answer, and an order to place! 😊) God bless you, friend. Again...LOVED the reaction! Oh, one more thing...no TV, and only books for nearly a decade? No wonder you're so intelligent! 😁

SPOILERS: You think carrying her around was creepy? I think digging up her grave, taking her body and stuffing it with sawdust was.

Hahahaha even if you were faking, your reaction to the shower scene was hilarious. You acted like you were getting stabbed! 👵🏼🔪👱🏻‍♀️🚿

Hi please react to Alfred Hitchcock's , " The Birds" next please . Its a another good one and great for the Halloween season.

Psycho 2 is really good!

Read the book called, 'deranged', by Herold Schechter. A must read true horror a thon!!

Would love to see you react to Silent Hill (2006)!

If you think this movie had you thinking one thing then change; watch Vertigo; the other psycho' Hitchcock had nothing to do with them; I saw this movie back in the 70's; I was afraid to take showers for years🤣

The best thing about the movie is that is in black & wwhite.