Psycho Alfred Hitchcock

One of the most essential scenes in Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock is the scene that takes place at the very beginning of the film. Marion Crane is packing her bags to run away from her seemingly well-off life. She is in a steady relationship with her...

Hitchcock and Van Sant's “Psycho”s, in theory, should have accomplished the same, or at least very similar, enunciative effects. Van Sant said himself that he wanted to experiment by creating a near “shot for shot” remake, but the cinematic result...

Setting is extremely important in Gothic literature: after all, setting really is the foundation of the story and can make or break the atmosphere the author tries to create. The same is true of film, and Psycho’s most used setting is arguably the...

Try to imagine music that would accompany someone getting stabbed to death in a movie. Now try to imagine music that would accompany a love scene. Hopefully these are two very different pieces of music. Sound alerts the audience of the action and...