Psycho News Archives

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 ...

Remakes of scary movies have never been hotter, but who wants to see a beloved cult classic gentrified? "The horror! The horror!" In Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad liked the word so much he wrote it twice.

For nearly as long as there have been motion pictures, there have been people scaring themselves with said motion pictures.

Wow . . . lots of great suggestions yesterday and the day before , and I'm sure all of this has nothing to do with the fact that I couldn't sleep a wink last night.

Les Diaboliques -- Who's Alfred Hitchcock? That's a question most people would probably chuckle at, expecting the person to either be joking or having lived under a rock for the entire 20th century.

Call me sentimental, but I miss the old hayride. Years ago I lived not far from SpookyWorld, the Halloween theme park that opened on a Berlin farm in 1991.

"TREEHOUSE OF HORROR XX" - It has been a Halloween tradition for 20 years and, for once, it actually airs before Halloween.

Below are ideas inspired by some of his most memorable characters. In 'The Birds' , Tippi Hedren's green suit ensemble is one of the most popular used costumes inspired by a Hitchcock heroine.

Gus Van Sant will join novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis in writing a film for Lionsgate about the double suicides of New York artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan.

Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are teaming up to write a new script based on the double suicides of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

The Weyauwega Arts Organization will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Robert Bloch's novel 'Psycho' on Oct.

Universal Studios Hollywood has redone its Halloween Horror Nights for 2009, according to its creative director.

Even if you haven't seen Alfred Hitchcock's famous movie "Psycho" you've surely seen the famous photograph of the terrified hotel-patron screaming in the shower.

Vince Vaughn's latest film, 'Couples Retreat,' opens Friday. The relationship comedy co-stars Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and longtime Vaughn buddy Jon Favreau.

James Patton of Houston is headed to court next week, on charges that he had his way with dead female bodies.

Why is it the great movies that get remade a ' and not dross like Howard the Duck? Fame a A will it live forever? On my way home from seeing Anna Friel in a new stage version of Breakfast at Tiffany's last week, I picked up a newspaper containing a big article about the remake of the film Fame , and then went home to watch TV reports of a doomed ...

My husband and I had an errand that took us to Wareham Crossing on Friday evening, so we dropped in to Red Robin for dinner.

Emerging artists perform Thursdays HAMMONTON -- Eagle Theatre's Emerging Artists Series takes place Thursday nights.