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Created Aug 23, 2009 03:17PM PST • Edited Aug 23, 2009 03:17PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Perfect 5.0

   One of the most suspenseful films ever made. Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho remains to this very day the greatest horror movie I’ve ever seen. Even after watching it so many times, the edge never wears off. The infamous story tells of a woman who steals $40, 000 and ends up staying at a quiet, innocent little motel run by one of the most infamous movie villains and eventually meets her death in a certain scene involving a shower and a flushing toilet. One of the best movies of all time, if you are a fan of slasher, watch this to see where it all began, if you are a fan of horror in general, watch this to see it at its best, and if you’ve never scene a horror movie in your life, start here.

4. Acting

   Perfect 5.0

   Janet Leigh deserved the Oscar nod for her total of 20 min. in this movie. But the real star is Mr. Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. Perkins plays Bates to the creepiest of his abilities and accomplishes what many actors have usually failed at, bringing their own originality and spirit into a role that requires it. The rest of the cast is great, including the P.I., Sam Loomis, and Lila(I don’t the actors who played them). It’s some of the best casting I’ve ever seen.

5. Male Stars Perfect 5.0

6. Female Stars Perfect 5.0

7. Female Costars Perfect 5.0

8. Male Costars Perfect 5.0

10. Film

    Perfect 5.0

    The score is one of the best I’ve ever heard in a film. Bernard Herman made one of the very best of all time. The cinematography is great. And to think that this film was made on a TV budget. The dialogue was taken(for the most part) from the novel by Robert Bloch. It is very well written and delivered perfectly. The tone of the movie is very creepy and quite suspensful. It keeps you hinging on the edge of your seat.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

12. Play Perfect 5.0

13. Music Perfect 5.0

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.6

    A woman in a shower! Sexual innuendos! Blood down the drain! It seems like so little. The film seems pretty tame by todays standards, but was considered quite shocking for its time. There’s little use of violence and no real sex scenes. But there is a naked woman(not full frontal) and that little part at the beginning when Sam and Marion are in bed together.

17. Sex Titillating 1.6

18. Violence Fierce 1.6

19. Rudeness Salty 1.6

21. Reality

    Natural 1.0

    The film is very, very, reallistic. Seeing as how it’s based on a true story, Hitchcock did his best to make sure the films stays reallistic. He made the world of Norman Bates seem very plausible.

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0