Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock

halloween;
bats..........
witches.....
Psychos......?

Halloween seems to be the favoured time of year for directors to release yet another saga of tacky and uninspiring horror movies, each as laughable as its predecessor. However, this year we have been promised different; in the long awaited Cannes Film Festival - ‘true horror will be bought back to our screens.’ The three day festival is expected to display ‘the best of the horror genre’ giving it the opportunity to portray true horror. Will choosing the films a difficult task? Maybe, perhaps there will be arguments about what to show on the last day. But surely the choices are otherwise obvious. There are some films, one or two, over which there can be no debate; namely Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’.
How can one of, if not the greatest horror movie of all time, not be included, in such a respected film festival? This would be sacrilege!
First screened in June 1960 Psycho took box-office records by s...