Psycho 1960
March 1960
4
4
You will receive an email when your movie becomes available. You will not be charged until it is released.
(303)
Synopsis
Google Play reviews now use Google+ so it's easier to see opinions from people you care about. New reviews will be publicly linked to your Google+ profile. Your name on previous reviews now appears as "A Google User".
Google Play reviews now use Google+ so it's easier to see opinions from people you care about. New reviews will be publicly linked to your Google+ profile. Your name on previous reviews now appears as "A Google User".
Write a review
My review
Review from
Reviews
4.6
303 total
5 223
4 50
3 18
2 5
1 7
A Google User
Wonderful! Psycho has to be one of the best directing jobs done by Alfred Hitchcock. Everything keeps you on edge. Although it might seem a little tacky with the way things are shot, it's a wonderful movie. Watch it!
Daniel Mejia
Timeless. I am a tough costumer when it comes to scaring and shocking. I was stunned when I found myself gasping and jumping back when I watched this film for the first time. This timeless classic is a living, bright example that color, millions worth of special effects, gore, and/or sex is not remotely what makes a movie worth watching. Psycho has art, beauty, and a soul of its own.
Mike Young
Great movie but There is no doubt it's a great movie but even being a Hitchcock fan I've never really liked it much. The shower scene is a classic and the music amazing but I guess the subject matter was just to weird for me to enjoy it. Now that I am older I can see what a great movie it is even though it was made with a cheap budget at a fairly rapid pace. The sad part now is that once you have heard what a great movie it is and have seen a few scenes on you tube you are probably not going to see what is great about the movie. It pales in comparison to the shock horror of todays films where blood and gore are common place so it's going to bore many folks. And that's a shame.
Paul Gainer
Not bad at all for its time After watching the hit TV show "Bates Motel", I decided to look up the original. I'm a big fan of the TV show. This movie is understandably dated. I loved the story and suspense. I was disappointed in the lack of "action" of the horror scenes but I also understand the time that this movie was shot in. Overall, I felt this movie was great for its time but I don't know if I could recommend it to a younger audience that may find it rather boring. If you are a fan of classic movies OR you are like myself in wanting to "fast forward" the TV series than by all means watch it. If, however, you are looking for a fast-paced gory horror flick then stay away.
A Google User
A Thriller for the People Hitchcock dedicated his work to entertaining the masses, and nowhere is this more evident than in "Psycho". It is a delicious thriller with twists, turns, jumps, and shocks. Entertainment like this is rare to find these days.
Blake Duff
We all go a little mad sometimes This film is great for so many reasons but I'll just mention three. First, editing. Never has a film's editing contributed to the terror experienced like this. Second, its score. Bernard Herrman stripped down his arrangement from previous films to just strings for Psycho;bold but an absolute fit. Finally, screenplay. It's as if Hitch is being a sadist behind the fourth wall, he toys with what the audience expects and takes seriously but in a poetic and revolutionary way. The first(only?) art horror film!
User reviews
Wonderful! Psycho has to be one of the best directing jobs done by Alfred Hitchcock. Everything keeps you on edge. Although it might seem a little tacky with the way things are shot, it's a wonderful movie. Watch it!

Timeless. I am a tough costumer when it comes to scaring and shocking. I was stunned when I found myself gasping and jumping back when I watched this film for the first time. This timeless classic is a living, bright example that color, millions worth of special effects, gore, and/or sex is not remotely what makes a movie worth watching. Psycho has art, beauty, and a soul of its own.
Great movie but There is no doubt it's a great movie but even being a Hitchcock fan I've never really liked it much. The shower scene is a classic and the music amazing but I guess the subject matter was just to weird for me to enjoy it. Now that I am older I can see what a great movie it is even though it was made with a cheap budget at a fairly rapid pace. The sad part now is that once you have heard what a great movie it is and have seen a few scenes on you tube you are probably not going to see what is great about the movie. It pales in comparison to the shock horror of todays films where blood and gore are common place so it's going to bore many folks. And that's a shame.

Not bad at all for its time After watching the hit TV show "Bates Motel", I decided to look up the original. I'm a big fan of the TV show. This movie is understandably dated. I loved the story and suspense. I was disappointed in the lack of "action" of the horror scenes but I also understand the time that this movie was shot in. Overall, I felt this movie was great for its time but I don't know if I could recommend it to a younger audience that may find it rather boring. If you are a fan of classic movies OR you are like myself in wanting to "fast forward" the TV series than by all means watch it. If, however, you are looking for a fast-paced gory horror flick then stay away.
A Thriller for the People Hitchcock dedicated his work to entertaining the masses, and nowhere is this more evident than in "Psycho". It is a delicious thriller with twists, turns, jumps, and shocks. Entertainment like this is rare to find these days.
We all go a little mad sometimes This film is great for so many reasons but I'll just mention three. First, editing. Never has a film's editing contributed to the terror experienced like this. Second, its score. Bernard Herrman stripped down his arrangement from previous films to just strings for Psycho;bold but an absolute fit. Finally, screenplay. It's as if Hitch is being a sadist behind the fourth wall, he toys with what the audience expects and takes seriously but in a poetic and revolutionary way. The first(only?) art horror film!
Cast and credits
Actors | Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam |
Producers | Alfred Hitchcock |
Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
Writers | Joseph Stefano |
Additional information
Audio language
Subtitles
English
Rental period
Start within 30 days, finish within 24 hours.
Info cards
Run time
108 minutes
Rating
R
Similar
The Wolfman (Unrated)
Horror
4
Academy Award® winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) tear up the screen in this action-packed thriller. Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) is lured back to his family estate to investigate the savage murder of his brother by a bloodthirsty beast. There, Talbot must confront his childhood demons, his estranged father (Hopkins), his brother's grieving fiancée (Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada) and a suspicious Scotland Yard Inspector (Hugo Weaving, The Matrix trilogy). When Talbot is bitten by the creature, he becomes eternally cursed and soon discovers a fate far worse than death. Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Watch the never before seen unrated version. 2010 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
The Woman In Black
Horror
2
(Original TItle - The Woman In Black) Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a widowed lawyer whose grief has put his career in jeopardy, is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased eccentric. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost... and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance. © 2012 CCP Woman In Black Holdings LLC. All Rights Reserved.
The Conjuring (2013)
Drama
2
Based on a true story, The Conjuring tells the suspenseful tale of Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson), world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives, after working such cases as the Amityville Horror and the Haunting in Connecticut.
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
Horror
2
Blackwood Manor has new tenants. While architect Alex Hurst and his new girlfriend Kim restore their Gothic mansion's period interiors, Alex's young daughter Sally—neglected by her real mother and brushed aside by the careerist father—can investigate the macabre history and dark corners of the estate. Spurring Sally's investigation are the voices—rasping whispers who call out to her from the basement, who promise her understanding and friendship, who are so very hungry and would like to be set free. When Sally gives in to her curiosity, she opens a gateway into a hellish underworld from which an army of beady-eyed, sharp-clawed monsters emerge, small in size but endless in number: the homunculi. Confronted with the horror that now threatens to taker her life and destroy her family, Sally desperately tries to warn the whole house, but there's just one problem: no one believes her. Will she make them understand in time, or will they become another chapter in the centuries-long horror story of Blackwood Manor? © 2011 Miramax. All Rights Reserved.
Straw Dogs (2011)
Horror
4
David and Amy Sumner (James Marsden and Kate Bosworth), a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), leading to a violent confrontation. © 2011 Screen Gems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
World War Z (Unrated)
Drama
2
The suspense is killer!" proclaims Peter Travers of Rolling Stone in this fast-paced, pulse-pounding epic of the potential last days of the human race. Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is called upon to help stop the chaotic pandemic that has gripped populations around the world. Even more action unfolds in the unrated cut with intense new footage not seen in theatres. David Denby of The New Yorker calls World War Z the "most gratifying action spectacle in years!
American Psycho
Horror
2
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancee (Reese Witherspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel, the film offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the '80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling.
Mama
Horror
4
Guillermo del Toro, the Academy Award-nominated writer of Pan's Labyrinth, presents this supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When the young sisters are found alive in a decrepit cabin, their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones) and his girlfriend (Oscar-nominee Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty) take them in. As they try to introduce the children to a normal life, Annabel (Jessica Chastain) begins to wonder if the traumatized girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.
Animal
Horror
3
When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves trapped in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing, blood thirsty predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.
Sinister
Horror
2
True crime novelist Ellison Oswald (Ethan Hawke) is so desperate to repeat the success of his first book that he moves his family into a home that served as the setting of a brutal murder. But instead of inspiration, Ellison finds a box of mysterious home movies in the attic that seem to point to unspeakable terrors -- ones that could threaten his entire family.
Legion (2010)
Horror
4
At a remote desert truck stop, the fate of the world will be decided. Evil's armies are amassing. Armed and united by the Archangel Michael, a group of strangers become unwitting soldiers on the frontlines of the Apocalypse. Their mission: protect a waitress and her sacred unborn child from the relentless, bloody siege of the demonic legion. © 2010 Bold Films, LP. All Rights Reserved.
The Shining
Drama
4
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family; Jack thinks it's no problem, but Danny's "shining" hints otherwise. Settling into their routine, Danny cruises through the empty corridors on his Big Wheel and plays in the topiary maze with Wendy, while Jack sets up shop in a cavernous lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed. Danny's alter ego, "Tony," however, starts warning of "redrum" as Danny is plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her husband's behavior and Danny's visit to the forbidding Room 237, Wendy soon discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the hotel has done to Jack.