Don't Drop The Soap -- Psycho's Back On DVD!

Guess what's back out on DVD? Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s little experiment; a 1960 black and white chiller about a murder at a creepy motel, which still stuns with its slight of hand and subversive shocks. The movie stars Janet Leigh as a woman who embezzles money from work and takes to the highway and is forced (during a rain storm) to seek shelter at the remote Bates Motel. Here she meets the shy, meek owner Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins in a brilliant performance) who looks after his ill mother and manages the deserted place. But before you can say “drop the soap” there is a murder in the shower and then the movie pulls the rug out from under the viewer for good. This new Special Edition finally does the movie justice on DVD (I’ve always been unhappy with the way it looked before). Now it shimmers to life on screen, with great audio and clarity. The DVD features commentary with Stephen Rebello (author of “Alfred Hitchcock and The Making Of Psycho”), the Shower Scene storyboards by Saul Bass, a short movie on the making of the film, a segment from the Hitchcock/ Francois Truffaut interview and best of all, one of the finest from the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV shows, directed by Hitchcock himself and based on a wonderful Roald Dahl short story Lamb to the Slaughter, about a wife (Barbara Bel Geddes) who dispatches her cheating husband with a frozen leg of lamb.