All there is to know about the crying game.

I have to wonder how much the experience of watching Psycho differs when you don't know the twist. Of course in our modern vernacular we all know that Norman Bates is his mother is the killer, but imagine when the movie first came out! No one knew the twist! Wouldn't it be so much scarier then, to see it in theaters and really think there was a murderous old lady?

And also to think that Norman Bates is just a much more sympathetic character; he really does initially come off as a likable, if slightly awkward and macabre, person.

Anyway this is Psycho, and this is your brain on way too much caffeine, sitting in the first class of New American Gothic Cinema.