Psycho

HITCHCOCK!
at Amherst Cinema

Sunday 8/22   2:00pm
Wednesday 8/25   7:30pm   9:45pm

A dark night at the Bates Motel, in the horror movie that transformed the genre by locating the monster inside ourselves. Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece blends a brutal manipulation of audience identification and an incredibly dense, allusive visual style to create the most morally unsettling film ever made. The case for Hitchcock as a modern Conrad rests on this ruthless investigation of the heart of darkness, but the film is uniquely Hitchcockian in its positioning of the godlike mother figure. It's a deeply serious and deeply disturbing work, but Hitchcock, with his characteristic perversity, insisted on telling interviewers that it was a “fun” picture. With Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, and Janet Leigh.

Director Alfred Hitchcock.  1960, 109 min, Rated R.  Restored 35mm Print.