‘Psycho’ at 60: How Hitchcock’s classic tapped our worst fears
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nypost.comlooks like a haunted mansion out of the 19th century. The character of Mrs. Bates (“Naw-man!”) is like a Victorian ghost who haunts it.
And, in a sense, she is a ghost. She’s just the ghost who happens to live in the fruit cellar of Norman’s mind.When “Psycho” came out, you might say that it ripped the 20th century in half.
Before “Psycho,” we had a movie culture in which everyone huddled together in the dark to be thrilled, moved, tickled, and — yes — frightened, with the promise that we were all in it together, and that a happy ending awaited us on the other side.
That cosmic reassurance wasn’t just a product of the Hollywood studio system. It expressed a worldview that was, in essence, religious: that movies unfolded in a.
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