Seek a suspense movie about multiple personalities and so on.

Hitchcock's masterpiece The Psychotic was remake by gus van sant in 1998, but it was a failure. I suggest you just read the original:

Psychotic patients (1960)

Plot:

The story comes from a novel based on a real event: a woman stole money and went to a motel; She was murdered in the hotel bathtub, which is a famous shower scene in the history of movies. The owner of the hotel looks abnormal. Did he kill for money, or did he have ulterior motives, or was his mysterious mother behind the scenes?

Cast:

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock

Screenwriter Screenwriter:

Robert Bloch Robert Bloch (novel)

Joseph Stefano (screenplay)

Actor actor:

Anthony Perkins anthony perkins Norman Bates

Janet leigh janet leigh Marion Crane.

Vera miles ... Lellak lane.

Martin Basan Martin Balsam ... Detective Milton Arbogast.

Frank Albertson Frank Albertson ... Tom Cassidy.

Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock ... the man in the cowboy hat (undetermined)

John gavin john gavin Sam loomis

John McIntire ... Sheriff Al Chambers.

Simon Oakland ... Dr. Fred Richmond.

Vaughn Taylor ... George Lowery

Lurene Tuttle ... Eliza Chambers.

Patricia Hitchcock ... Caroline (Pat Hitchcock)

John Anderson ... Idiot.

Mort Mills ... Highway Patrol.

Fletcher Allen ... Policeman on the steps (unregistered).

Prudence Beer ... Extra (unedited)

Muriel Bradley ... Extra (unedited)

Keith Britton ... Extra (unedited)

Kit Carson ... Extra (unedited)

Francis de sayles ... Official (not edited)

George Doxtad ... Extra (unedited)

George Eldridge ... Chief james mitchell (unregistered).

Harper Flaherty ... Extra (unedited)

Sam Flint ... Official (not edited)

Margaret Fur ... Extra (unedited)

Virginia Gregg ... Norma Bates (voice) (unedited)

Paul Jasmin ... Norma Bates (voice) (unedited)

Myra Jones ... Extra (unedited)

Lee Kass ... Extra (unedited)

Frank Kilmond ... Bob Sommerfield (not adapted)

Ted Knight ... Protective device (unencrypted)

Pat mccaffrey ..... Police Guard (no establishment)

Jeanette Nolan ... Norma Bates (voice) (unedited)

Lillian O'Malley ... Extra (unedited)

Fred Scheweiler ..... Extra (unedited)

Chief Tahaqi ..... Citizen /Ned Place (unregistered)

Helen Wallace ... Hardware store customer (unregistered)

Producer producer:

Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock ... Producer (unedited)

Original music:

Bernard herrmann bernard herrmann

Photographic film y:

John L. Russell (director of photography)

Clip movie editor:

George tomasini

Art direction:

Robert Crateworthy

Joseph Hurley

Set the decoration in the following ways:

George Milo

Fashion design consists of:

Rita Riggs ..... (unedited)

Assistant Director/Assistant Director:

Hilton Green ... Assistant Director.

Behind the scenes production:

About movies

Psychopaths is the most representative classic of Hitchcock, a suspense master. This unprecedented successful horror film has bold skills and amazing pictures. Even after decades, the murder and bloody scenes still make the audience tremble with fear.

The mother of modern horror movies was shot at low cost and in a short time. It is adapted from Robert Bloch's novel by Joseph Stefano. Hitchcock skillfully manipulated the audience's emotions with skillful montage skills, thus completing a completely pure film expression. Hitchcock abandoned some well-known routines in previous films and really stimulated the audience completely through vision rather than plot. The scene of "bathroom killing" in the film has become a classic picture in the history of movies. It lasts 48 seconds and consists of 78 rapidly changing shots. Although there is not even a bloody picture of a knife piercing the human body, because of the comprehensive use of montage, scene scheduling, rhythm, lighting, sound and other technologies, its terrorist effect is difficult to see. Hitchcock's request for this scene is: "chop, chop with a knife, the knife is like tearing the screen and rushing out of the movie." This "real horror" left the audience with endless imagination, as Hitchcock thought: "The most stressful thing is not the disgusting way to die, but the atmosphere brewed before death."

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The name "Hitchcock" is synonymous with suspense and horror, representing the spirit of a film technology; It is this universally recognized master of horror who invented the genre of thriller.

Hitchcock directed and produced 59 films and more than 300 series in his life, most of which took the dark side of human nature such as nervousness, anxiety, voyeurism and fear as narrative themes, and skillfully blended sex appeal, suspense and humor. The ultimate goal of Hitchcock's films is to show the deepest horror and the most abnormal thoughts of human nature. Therefore, unlike modern horror films, Hitchcock's films can be called thrillers. All the horrors exist and happen between people, and there are no disgusting pictures such as twisted bloody rivers, which are completely won by clever plot arrangement and excellent performances of actors.

Hitchcock 1889 was born in London and is an ordinary vegetable wholesaler. 1920 entered the film industry. After working as a subtitle designer, production designer and editor, he directed the first suspense film The Sender in 1926, which established his position in the British film industry. Hitchcock 1934' s The Assassin's House and 1936' s Thirty-nine Steps made him famous internationally. 1940, the first Hollywood work Butterfly Dream won the best Oscar, followed by the spy war drama Foreign Correspondents, the psychological suspense film Cliff and the psychoanalytic film Dr. Edward. 1946, Hitchcock filmed the concluding work "honey trap" in this period.

In 1950s, Hitchcock went hand in hand in terms of artistry and entertainment, and constantly tried photography techniques, resulting in a series of excellent works such as Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Catch the Thief, Charm, North by Northwest and so on. 1960, Hitchcock challenged the new horror and made a film "Psychopaths" with strange theme, unexpected plot and low-cost black and white production, which became a milestone in Hitchcock's film career. At that time, the directors of the French new wave were more or less influenced by Hitchcock, and the masters of the new wave gave him the highest evaluation: he was a movie.

Hitchcock was recognized as one of the greatest film directors of all time. He won the Oscar Special Award with 1968, and the Griffith Award of the American Directors Association in the same year. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the film art, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him a lifetime achievement award of 65438-0979. 1980, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him and died in Los Angeles on April 29th of the same year.

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Psychopaths has produced two global stars, a man and a woman, namely Janet Lee and anthony perkins.

Sheng Zai 1927 and 1947 signed contracts with MGM and played some roles of young girls. After marrying Tony Curtis (amorous), she began to play the role of a mature woman in 195 1. Later, due to her outstanding performances in orson welles's The Beauty Thief and Hitchcock's The Psychopath, she was promoted to the first-line actress, especially The Psychopath won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and Oscar nomination. From 65438 to 0999, jeanette lee was awarded the highest honor "Commander of Art and Literature" by the French government. Jeanette lee once said that in the classic scene where Hitchcock was killed in the shower, 70 shots were cut from different angles to express her fear before she died, but after watching this scene in the cinema, she felt creepy and never dared to take a shower again. It is reported that Li earned only $25,000 for this film, and he has been taking a bath in this bathtub ever since. In addition, the expression of fear in the film was also rated as the most classic death scene in history by the British film magazine TotalFilm.

Psychopaths also made actor anthony perkins famous and his role Norman Bates a household name. The famous American actor anthony perkins (1932— 1992) was born in new york. He was keen on acting as early as in college. He was once seen by the great director during his performance, and Sui invited him to co-star Persuasion with Dzharir Cooper, a famous movie star who was nominated for six Oscars. Since then, he has played a young man with dual personality in The Psychotic directed by Hitchcock, which has established his position in the film industry and has been riding in the film industry for 30 years. On both sides of the Atlantic, he starred in films such as Lonely Man, Green Mansion, Trial and Battle of Paris.

background music

The soundtrack of this film also contributed a lot, and the sharp strings specially arranged by bernard herrmann for the mentally ill also made an indelible contribution to the tension of the film. In the scene where the bathroom was killed, it seemed that all the knives cut into Maria's body, but in fact, there were no knives at all. Its excellent effect depends entirely on sharp and fast editing and multi-angle lens. In addition, bernard herrmann's score is the greatest contribution, which is extremely sharp and harsh, and the sharp sound of the violin can almost cut people's flesh. Hitchcock originally planned not to use extra sound effects in this section, but after listening to Herman's performance, he immediately changed his mind.

Trivia:

Hitchcock bought the copyright of this novel under a pseudonym for only $9,000.

After two expensive color films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, Hitchcock led his TV production team to shoot this black-and-white horror film at a very low cost. According to Hitchcock himself, he didn't want the film to look too bloody and violent (the well-known bathroom part). He wanted to see if a low-cost black-and-white film would sell well.

Hitchcock's "Psychopaths" cost only $800,000, and it made a profit150,000 soon after its first release.

Interestingly, Hitchcock himself was creating suspense when shooting this film. He asked all the producers to swear to keep the plot and ending of the story strictly confidential and never reveal any details. In addition, he seriously hired the actors of Mother and published a list of several candidates. In fact, there is no "mother" scene in the script.

The climax of the murder scene in the bathroom is only 45 seconds, but Hitchcock spent almost 7 days shooting, and the lens shifted as many as 60 times.

Li Qianrong recalled that when filming Psychopaths, Hitchcock only experimented on Janet to test whether the corpse in the play was scary enough. Sometimes Li pushes the door into the dressing room after lunch and finds a terrible "zombie" sitting in her chair. Jeanette lee said: "Hitchcock will decide which dummy to use as a corpse according to the degree of fear every time I scream."

Hitchcock paid anthony perkins $40,000, which happened to be the huge sum that Maria stole from the company.

Hitchcock likes blondes. He once said, "Blondes are the best for murder! Imagine how beautiful the bright red blood flowing from her snow-white skin is, lined with shiny blonde hair! " Li Qianrong, who was killed in this movie, was of course blonde.

Wearable lens:

It was raining cats and dogs outside when Norman walked from his room to the hotel office to see Maria. But in the next scene, when he stood in the hotel office, his coat was dry and not a drop of water was touched.

In the scene of Norman carrying Maria's body, Maria's car cover is dry and wet for a while.

Maria tore a bar of soap in the shower and threw the wrapping paper into the bathtub. Norman didn't see the wrapping paper when he cleaned the bathtub.