Psycho News

Over at his spiffy "Alfred Hitchcock Geek" blog, Portland writer Joel Gunz is making a case, eye-opening to me at least, that Hitch's work was heavily influenced by the director's acquaintance with the paintings of Edward Hopper.

The shrieking violins of Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock's chilling masterpiece - proved horror is all the more effective when it is unseen.

They were my personal teen Rites of Spring. It took me years to understand the significance of both.

Robert Forster was a founding member of the Go-Betweens, one of Australia's finest bands.

This summer's blockbuster Star Trek remake from J.J. Abrams head this week's crop of Blu-ray releases.

I recently dredged up a piece of pop-culture history I haven't thought about in ages.

Director Gus Van Sant has begun shooting his latest, as-yet-untitled film in Portland, Ore., Imagine Entertainment announced Friday.

It's Gus Van Sant directing "Breaking Dawn." Because the third Twilight installment isn't beneath the guy who did "Milk" and "Drugstore Cowboy." Although, reminding everybody about that Psycho remake could be a powerful bargaining chip.

American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has a couple of projects in the works. One is his co-writing deal with Gus Van Sant , where the pair will chronicle the lives and odd, tragic suicides of artist/filmmaker couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

Although Halloween has come and gone, the FSR universe of readers and contributors alike have hardly satiated their horror fix, so this week's Culture Warrior presents three movies that were major game-changers for the genre.

Elvis Perkins, second from left, has changed since this photo was taken. "Short hair, glasses, beard," he says.

Foot Light Productions and the Rehoboth Beach Theatre of the Arts will present a dinner and murder mystery event, "Murder on Sunset Boulevard," Saturday, Nov.

Some single parents love a great movie marathon fright night, as if some of our nightmare scenarios have not provided enough adrenalized fear.

PSYCHO: Janet Leigh in the famous shower scene. No really. There are some really good horror and slasher films.

It's Halloween and one of my favorite horror movies is Hitchcock's Psycho . The shower scene with Janet Leigh is the iconic scene from the classic 1960 film.

Back in 1958, when they were working on "North by Northwest," Alfred Hitchcock told screenwriter Ernest Lehman that they weren't making a movie.

Every once in a while I like to take a look back at a comic book classic, or at least one that represents a classic.

Composed by Bernard Hermann, the tune reaches a crescendo as Norman Bates stabs Marion to death, leaving her blood to pour down the plughole.

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece DVD Collection for $53.99 , 55% off the $120 list price.

Accompaniment by Seattle Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle; $17-$99 . What's the scariest thing about "Psycho?" The infamous shower scene? A private detective's ill-advised investigation of a motel proprietor's house? An even more ill-advised visit to that house's cellar ...