Do you want to take a shower? The intensity of
experience that this must have provided upon its release is
lost on those of us who only discovered it on videocassette,
but even today, the aura of depravity that surrounds a viewer
of Hitchcock’s most famous film is surprising. In no small part
indebted to Anthony Perkins’ creepy performance in the title
role, this is the Hitchcock that sticks it to its audience in
the most gleefully malicious ways.
[Released the same year as another touchstone horror picture, Peeping Tom]
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