(DVD) Psycho (1960) ไซโค (มีพากย์ไทย)

Psycho (1960) ไซโค
ประเภทแผ่น: DVD
แนวภาพยนตร์: สยองขวัญ, ลึกลับ, ระทึกขวัญ (Horror, Mystery, Thriller)

คะแนนจาก IMDB = 8.5/10 (ผู้โหวต 405,000 คน) (ได้รับคะแนนนิยมสูงสุดเป็นอันดับที่ 35 ของเว็บ IMDB)
คะแนนจาก Rottentomatoes = 96/100 (จากนักวิจารณ์ 84 คน) และ 94/100 (จากนักดูหนัง 236,888 คน)

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1 ในหนัง 1,001 เรื่องที่ห้ามพลาดในชาตินี้
(1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die)

หนังสยองคลาสสิกตลอดกาลที่คอหนังห้ามพลาดเป็นอันขาด

แมเรียน เครน (Janet Leigh) หญิงสาวที่เพิ่งทำการยักยอกเงินจากที่ทำงานของเธอและกำลังหนีอยู่ ระหว่างทางเธอก็เข้าพักที่เบทส์ โมเต็ล โรงแรมเล็กๆ ที่ร้างผู้คนมานานแล้ว ที่เธอได้พบกับนอร์แมน เบทส์ (Anthony Perkins) ชายหนุ่ม ท่าทางสุภาพเป็นเจ้าของดูแลอยู่

เมื่อเธอเข้าพัก เธอก็นั่งคิดถึงสิ่งที่ได้ทำลงไป จนในที่สุดเธอก็เริ่มคิดจะกลับใจ ก็เลยเตรียมตัวจะย้อนกลับไปเผชิญกับสิ่งที่ตัวเองทำ เธอเปิดฝักบัว อาบน้ำ... และนั่นก็จุดเริ่มต้นของความสยอง

ดนตรีของ Bernard Herrmann เข้าขั้นคลาสสิคครับ ส่วนตัวหนังที่เป็นขาวดำนั้น ก็ได้อารมณ์สยอง มันเพิ่มความทึมและน่ากลัวขึ้นเยอะ

=== รายละเอียด ===

ภาษา (Language)
English, Thai

บรรยาย (Subtitles)
English, Thai

จำนวนแผ่น (Disc Total): 1 แผ่น
สร้างโดย (Studio): Universal
จัดจำหน่ายโดย (Copyright): Catalyst (แคททาลิสท์)

ราคาปก 299 บาท
ราคาขาย 189 บาท

นำแสดงโดย Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
กำกับโดย Alfred Hitchcock
สร้างจากหนังสือของ Robert Bloch
ความยาว 109 นาที

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Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam. The screenplay by Joseph Stefano was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.

The film centers on the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), who ends up at a secluded motel after embezzling money from her employer, and the motel's disturbed owner-manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and its aftermath. When originally made, the film was seen as a departure from Hitchcock's previous film North by Northwest, having been filmed on a low budget, with a television crew and in black and white. Psycho initially received mixed reviews, but outstanding box office returns prompted reconsideration which led to overwhelming critical acclaim and four Academy Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actress for Leigh and Best Director for Hitchcock.

Psycho is now considered one of Hitchcock's best films and praised as a work of cinematic art by international film critics and film scholars. Ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre. After Hitchcock's death in 1980, Universal Studios began producing follow-ups: three sequels, a remake, a television film spin-off, and a TV series.

In 1992, the US Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Initial reviews of the film were thoroughly mixed. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote, "There is not an abundance of subtlety or the lately familiar Hitchcock bent toward significant and colorful scenery in this obviously low-budget job." Crowther called the "slow buildups to sudden shocks" reliably melodramatic but contested Hitchcock's psychological points, reminiscent of Krafft-Ebing's studies, as less effective. While the film did not conclude satisfactorily for the critic, he commended the cast's performances as "fair". British critic C. A. Lejeune was so offended that she not only walked out before the end but permanently resigned her post as film critic for The Observer. Other negative reviews stated, "a blot on an honorable career", "plainly a gimmick movie", and "merely one of those television shows padded out to two hours."Positive reviews stated, "Anthony Perkins' performance is the best of his career ... Janet Leigh has never been better", "played out beautifully", and "first American movie since Touch of Evil to stand in the same creative rank as the great European films."A good example of the mix is the New York Herald Tribune's review, which stated, "... rather difficult to be amused at the forms insanity may take ... keeps your attention like a snake-charmer."

The public loved the film, with lines stretching outside of theaters as people had to wait for the next showing. This, along with box office numbers, led to a reconsideration of the film by critics, and it eventually received a very large amount of praise. It broke box-office records in Japan and the rest of Asia, France, Britain, South America, the United States, and Canada, and was a moderate success in Australia for a brief period. It was the most profitable black-and-white sound film ever made, and Hitchcock personally realized well in excess of $15 million (about $120m today). He then swapped his rights to Psycho and his TV anthology for 150,000 shares of MCA, making him the third largest shareholder in MCA Inc. and his own boss at Universal, in theory; however, this did not stop them from interfering with his later films. Psycho was, by a large margin, the most profitable film of Hitchcock's career, earning over $12 million for the studio on release, and $15 million by the end of the year. Hitchcock's second most profitable was Family Plot ($7,541,000), and third place was a tie between Torn Curtain (1966) and Frenzy (1972), each earning $6,500,000. Around the time of the run's end, the film had grossed $32 million in domestic theaters.

In the United Kingdom, the film shattered attendance records at the London Plaza Cinema, but nearly all British critics panned it, questioning Hitchcock's taste and judgment. Reasons cited for this were the critics' late screenings, forcing them to rush their reviews, their dislike of the gimmicky promotion, and Hitchcock's expatriate status. Perhaps thanks to the public's response and Hitchcock's efforts at promoting it, the critics did a re-review, and the film was praised. TIME switched its opinion from "Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one" to "superlative" and "masterly", and Bosley Crowther put it on his Top Ten list of 1960.

Psycho was initially criticized for making other filmmakers more willing to show gore; three years later, Blood Feast, considered to be the first "splatter film", was released.[126] Psycho's success financially and critically had others trying to ride its coattails. Inspired by Psycho, Hammer Film Productions launched a series of mystery thrillers including The Nanny (1965) starring Bette Davis and William Castle's Homicidal (1961) was followed by a slew of more than thirteen other splatter films.

On the review aggregator website, RottenTomatoes.com, Psycho holds a 'Certified: Fresh' score of 96%, with the critics consensus reading: "Infamous for its shower scene, but immortal for its contribution to the horror genre. Because Psycho was filmed with tact, grace, and art, Hitchcock didn't just create modern horror, he validated it"

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