Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is the film that carved up cinema conventions and left the audience bleeding in the shower. It shocked, scandalized, and changed the way people looked at thrillers, not to mention their bathroom curtains. Over sixty years later, it remains both a masterpiece of suspense and a masterclass in breaking all the rules.
Tag: Janet Leigh
Prince Valiant (1954) – Review
Hollywood loves a good swashbuckler and if it’s not Errol Flynn as Captain Blood duelling a nefarious Basil Rathbone, then it’s Errol Flynn as Robin Hood duelling a nefarious Basil Rathbone — Hollywood is fond of sticking with what works — but no greater font of swordplay and action can be found than within the…
Night of the Lepus (1972) – Review
Rabbits, nature’s most vicious killing machine, furred beasts that mercilessly stalk and devour their prey, or at least that is what MGM Studios wished audiences to believe when they released Night of the Lepus back in 1972. Based on Australian author Russell Braddon’s book The Year of the Angry Rabbit, a political satire that the…