Hitchcock’s audacious choice to kill off his star just 30 minutes into the film is just one of the many reasons Psycho is a landmark in cinematic history. The controversial shower scene pushed ...

By the time Universal Pictures released Psycho in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already one of the most famous directors in ...

Until Psycho, Hitchcock’s films had the label of a thriller ... so outwardly horrific as Marion Crane’s stabbing in the shower. And this promotional campaign suggesting Psycho was boundary ...