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Psycho on TCM (Original Post) vercetti2021 Jun 2021 OP
Watching it as well CanonRay Jun 2021 #1
What an experience! vercetti2021 Jun 2021 #2
Got to see it on the big screen grumpyduck Jun 2021 #3
Watching now nt XanaDUer2 Jun 2021 #4
Saw it first-run @ age 13 Lord Ludd Jun 2021 #5
My mother saw it when she was 8 months pregnant TexasBushwhacker Jun 2021 #6
If you haven't seen it, there's a cool documentary TexasBushwhacker Jun 2021 #7
Recommended Lord Ludd Jun 2021 #9
It's one of mine too MustLoveBeagles Jun 2021 #8
The CBS Friday movie pressbox69 Jul 2021 #10
Wow vercetti2021 Jul 2021 #11

CanonRay

(14,871 posts)
1. Watching it as well
Sun Jun 27, 2021, 07:17 PM
Jun 2021

I saw it in the drive-in with my oldest brother and his girlfriend. I was about 8. Scary.

Lord Ludd

(585 posts)
5. Saw it first-run @ age 13
Sun Jun 27, 2021, 10:15 PM
Jun 2021

Watched Vera Miles enter the basement through tiny gaps between the fingers covering my eyes.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,680 posts)
7. If you haven't seen it, there's a cool documentary
Mon Jun 28, 2021, 05:26 PM
Jun 2021

about the shower scene called 78/52. It was 78 seconds long and had 58 different shots.

Lord Ludd

(585 posts)
9. Recommended
Mon Jun 28, 2021, 09:36 PM
Jun 2021

Not one of those 58 shots showed a knife piercing flesh, but the overall effect was unforgettable.

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
10. The CBS Friday movie
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 05:10 AM
Jul 2021

was scheduled to show it on Sep. 66 but a few days before, the still unsolved murder of Senator Percy's daughter happened so CBS pulled it. Many of the CBS affiliates complained after the murder and only a month before, Speck murdered the 8 student nurses so CBS was already a little squeamish about showing Psycho. They sold it to ABC. Psycho made its TV debut in June 67 on a Saturday late night, past 11:30 pm. The shower scene was still edited down to 3 stab swipes.

vercetti2021

(10,403 posts)
11. Wow
Tue Jul 6, 2021, 03:40 AM
Jul 2021

That's an interesting piece of history about the movie. I can see why at the time it was ultra violent for the 60's and coming off a mass murder? Wow thanks for sharing that bit of info

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