William Fichtner's cannibal killer is half Lance Henriksen's cannibalistic hired gun in Dead Man, and half psycho-railroad assassin Henry Fonda from Once Upon A Time.
Abstract Expressionist moves are there, but so are images, half-abstract, psycho-symbolic: flowers, bodies, eyes, wings, hearts and crosses that turn into floor plans and kites.
But while I could believe that Arnott was naive enough to head off to his meeting alone – everything we've learnt about him suggests that he is impetuous and desperate to prove himself – but I struggled to understand both why the mysterious uber-villainuidn't just have him murdered straight away, and why he entrusted the job to a bunch of half-cocked psychos from the local sink estate.
Your half-pint psycho-killer is having the time of his/her life.
After half a century Psycho still looks pretty edgy, although when placed alongside Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960/2010, Optimum, 15) it seems positively well behaved.
I also remember, one night, age seven, sitting half-asleep and watching Psycho with my uncle, which was quite amazing and surreal.
Nowadays the half-knowledge and psycho-speak of mass media is rather disturbing, I find".
After half a century of terror, Psycho is still ensuring that no one feels safe in the shower.
This year Hitchcock's Psycho turns 50 — half a decade later, Marion Crane Janet Leighh's) visit to the Bates Motel continues to terrify.
Puppet the Psycho Dwarf, the Half Pint Brawlers' leader, referee, announcer, and judge, entered the ring and pumped up the audience for the impending show.
He lives in Santa Rosa, the setting of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (a film where evil insinuated itself into the lives of naïve innocents), and his name suggests both James Cain and Marion Crane, the similarly transgressive heroine of Psycho, the first half-hour of which is the final flowering of Hollywood noir.
