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#23 is no less a scary movie as it is a good film. This is pretty rare in the horror world.

Psycho - 1960

Just one of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece cinema. It was a toss up for me to put this or the Birds on the 31 Days list, but I think Psycho is a much better film, as well as a scary flick to boot. Loosing based on the life og Wisconsin legend, Ed Gein (same guy that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based off of), the movie revolves around a woman in a motel, hiding from her boss because she in embezzling money from him, and the motel owner/operator, Norman Bates.

Bates made this movie exceedingly creepy as he is the perfect onscreen example of mental collapsing and sacrifice. Not to mention that one of the most famous scenes in film history is in this flick.

It took me a long time to get around to watching this movie. I think the fact that it was older kind of turned me off. But once I watched it… man, it blew me away how good it was. Just the cine-theory in each scene is breath-taking.

Fun Facts:
The film spawned two sequels, a prequel, a remake, and an unsuccessful television spin-off.

Since the film was shot like most films of this era in Black & White, using a red substitute for blood was kind of useless. But to keep the consistancy of blood, chocolate syrup was used instead. This became a fad in Hollywodd B&W films. Later on a film was made called Not Just For IceCream Anymore, which is a direct reference to the usage of Chocolate Syrup in horror films.

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