Psyco

Titolo originale: Psycho
Regia: Alfred Hitchcock |
Anno: 1960
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Horror Thriller Mistero
Tag: hotel | clerk | detective | shower | arizona | motel | halloween | stolen money | alter ego | taxidermy | money | murder | secretary | serial killer | slasher | psychological thriller | black and white | corpse | murderer | theft | overbearing mother | stabbing | mental illness | private detective | missing person | split personality | psycho | voyeurism | voyeur | oedipus complex | double identity | abusive mother | dual personality | proto-slasher | multiple personality disorder | mother son relationship | birds | anxious | dramatic | motel owner | woman on the run | corruptibility | confused identities | human vulnerabilities | gloomy | man with female alter ego |
Cast: Anthony Perkins | Janet Leigh | Vera Miles | John Gavin | Martin Balsam | John McIntire | Simon Oakland | Frank Albertson | Patricia Hitchcock | Vaughn Taylor | Lurene Tuttle | John Anderson | Mort Mills | Fletcher Allen | Walter Bacon | Kit Carson | Francis De Sales | George Dockstader | George Eldredge | Harper Flaherty | Sam Flint | Virginia Gregg | Alfred Hitchcock | Paul Jasmin | Lee Kass | Frank Killmond | Ted Knight | Pat McCaffrie | Hans Moebus | Jeanette Nolan | Lillian O'Malley | Robert Osborne | Fred Scheiwiller | Helen Wallace |

Marion Crane, impiegata in una società immobiliare, scappa con 40.000$ rubati dalle casse della ditta. Durante la fuga verso casa del fidanzato però, decide di fermarsi nel Motel gestito dal giovane Norman Bates e dalla madre, che però vive rintanata nella casa attigua al Motel stesso. Il capolavoro di Alfred Hitchcock.

Errori

Janet Leigh's body double is obvious when Norman is pulling Marion from the tub onto the shower cur [...] D
In the film's climax, our heroes find a room filled with what are, apparently, things from Norman B [...] D
In the shower, Marion's hand changes from thumb down to thumb up when she grabs the shower curtain [...] D
When Marion is looking in the rear view mirror as the cop is following her, the image is flipped sh [...] D
When Marion is driving on the 4 lane highway in the rain, when the mirror view is shown she's in th [...] D
When the camera does the extreme closeup of Marion, dead on the shower floor, you can see the Gaffe [...] D
Det. Arbogast phones in about the Bates Motel and Norman. Later, he returns to the motel to investi [...] D
When Marion falls over the edge of the tub her head is facing down. But when the camera pulls back [...] D
The drive from Phoenix to Los Angeles (the presumed location of the film's fictional suburb Fairval [...] D
When Marion is in the shower (before she is killed), in one shot she has her eyes closed. In the ve [...] D
When Marion starts getting wet in the shower, at first her hair is dry. She starts washing her arms [...] D
Norman removes a painting to reveal a hole in the wall. He is then able to look into the bathroom t [...] D
'Telescoping' story time often occurs in movies, but 'Psycho' stretches it to the limit in Norman's [...] D
In the cellar, when Norman cries "I am Norma Bates!" as Sam pulls him down, his lips are not moving [...] D
The calendar belonging to the Chief of Police reads '17' on December 20th. D
When Marion transfers the remaining money from the crumpled envelope & puts it in 2 stacks inside t [...] D
When Marion first gets out of her car at the motel in the rain, the windshield wipers are running a [...] D
When Norman is loading Marion's corpse into the trunk a dummy is obviously being used. D
When Lila and Sam are walking from their motel room to the office, the reflection of a crew member [...] D
When Norman first meets Marion his first words to her were an apology for not hearing her on accoun [...] D
As Marion falls out of the shower, her hair is soaking wet. But in the famous still shot of her lyi [...] D
When "Mother" exits her room and charges Arbogast, she slashes downward towards his chest. But the [...] D
When Norman has pushed Marion's car into the swamp, the sound of the bubbles creates echoes. The sc [...] D
When Sam and Lila first arrive at the motel, there is a shadow of a nearby tree on the side of the [...] D
When Norman has to carry Mother to the basement to hide for a few days, she's full-bodied with roun [...] D
Marion turns on the shower and the water is instantly hot. D
When Marion is lying dead on the floor and the camera is zoomed at her face you can clearly see she [...] D
When Marion Crane leaves town and it becomes dark outside, the rear shot of the car driving into a [...] D
Norman is able to change into his own clothes so quickly to meet Marion when she first arrives at T [...] D
Detective Arbogast phones Sam's store to tell Sam and Lila what he's found out and suspects, but th [...] D
When Norman peeps through the hole in the office wall, Marion is seen donning her bath robe. She is [...] D
After talking to Norman, Detective Arbogast calls Lila to report on what he's learned. However, Lil [...] D
The title card fixes the date as December 11, but when Marion is deducting the cost of the car from [...] D
When Marion checks into the Bates Motel, she tells Norman she needs sleep more than anything "excep [...] D
When the Tom Cassidy character hands to Marion the "$40,000" cash, it clearly is TWO 100-bill bands [...] D
When Norman comes to clean the evidence of Marion Crane's death, there is blood on the floor. In th [...] D
In the first shot of Lila and Sam waiting to hear back from Arbogast, Lila's right arm is turned aw [...] D
When the cop awakens Marion in her car, the driver's side windshield frame has dozens of grimy hand [...] D
As the camera pans from Marion Crane's feet to the shower drain, the blood seems to be flowing in a [...] D
Mother is depicted standing full-figure in front of the second-floor front window. However, the arr [...] D
When Marion drives away from the police officer, the unmistakable sound of a 1957 Ford starter can [...] D
The shadow of the camera falls on the lady examining the pesticide can in Sam's hardware store. [...] D
When Marion is lying dead in the shower, an extreme close-up of her eyes is shown, which shows her [...] D
As the camera pans from Marion Crane's feet to the shower drain, the blood seems to be flowing in a [...] D
In the shower, the placement of the curtain rings varies multiple times. D
The piece of toast Marion eats while talking to Norman decreases in size inconsistently with her ea [...] D
After Marion steals the money it takes her almost a day and a half to get to the Bates Motel. Howev [...] D
When Arbogast is killed, we see an overhead view of him being stabbed once in the chest. We then ge [...] D
Fairville on the 19th and 20th of December shows no signs of Christmas. D
As Marion leaves the used car lot, the employee shouts after her and bring the suitcase and coat sh [...] D
When Norman drags Marion from the bathroom to wrap her in the shower curtain, she is wearing pantie [...] D
When Norman is making his way from the house to the hotel office to greet Marion, it is pouring rai [...] D
When Marion pulls into the motel during the rain and sees the office, she drives over to it and sto [...] D
When Norman gets Marion's luggage out of her car he ignores the trunk and goes, correctly, straight [...] D
There are persistent reports that Marion swallows after she is dead. The story originated in a news [...] D
In the shower, when Norman is stabbing Marion, his right arm gets completely wet but when he walks [...] D
When Detective Arbogast enters the Bates residence in the latter part of the film, he looks directl [...] D
When Lila approaches Mother in the fruit cellar, Mrs. Bates is seated in a four-legged chair. After [...] D
In the opening shots of the hotel window, the venetian blinds are bunched higher on the right and l [...] D
As Marion approaches the restroom at California Charlie's used car lot, the door hinges on the left [...] D
On two occasions both Sam Loomis and Tom Cassidy make reference to the actual day's temperature. To [...] D
In the hotel, Sam sits with his arms outstretched. In the close-up of Sam, the towel has moved acro [...] D
In first night driving scene leaving Phoenix, from interior and driver POV, Marion is in the wrong [...] D
When Norman places the folded up newspaper containing the money in the car trunk it is noticeably t [...] D
When Lila finally meets Mrs. Bates, she recoils in horror, hitting the hanging ceiling light, sendi [...] D
Lila and Sam are able to sneak into Cabin 1 just by pushing an unlocked door. A sane, calculating c [...] D
Marion is in her apartment changing her clothes after stealing the money; as the camera dollies tow [...] D
When Norman suggests Arbogast to join him while he changes sheets, Arbogast notices Norman pause an [...] D
When Marion first gets out of her car and meets the salesman at the used car dealership, a crewmemb [...] D
When Marion is in the motel room writing in the notebook with her bankbook above it, the balance is [...] D
When the police officer backs in behind Marion's car on shoulder of the highway, no tire tracks fro [...] D
Marion is stabbed repeatedly in the torso while in the shower then presses her front against the wa [...] D
While driving in Bakersfield, no car dealership can be seen through the windshield as Marion turns [...] D
When Sam and Lila are checking her motel room for traces of Marion, the lid over the toilet seat is [...] D
When Janet Leigh is in the car dealer bathroom getting the cash, as the envelope is being returned [...] D
When Norman is walking through the ground floor of the house shortly before the shower scene, he gr [...] D
When Norman discovers Marion's body in the shower he knocks a picture of a bird off the wall. There [...] D
At the beginning, in the establishing shot of the hotel window, the angle of the shadow on the wind [...] D
It seems a bit too convenient that Marion would have brought in all of her luggage and personal eff [...] D
The layout of inside the Bates mansion doesn't match the exterior. For example, there are two windo [...] D
In the shower, when Marion is seen in front of the shower curtain, there are two different water je [...] D
At the car dealership, the same extras (people on the sidewalks) are seen repeatedly, walking in di [...] D
At the time of the film's production in 1959, the California Highway Patrol did not use Fords in th [...] D
In the final reveal of Norma Bates, she is sitting with her back to the camera on an ordinary four- [...] D