Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Psycho

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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 7am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movie Psycho from 1960.
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano.
It stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.
The film centres on an encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), who ends up at a secluded motel after stealing money from her employer, and the motel's owner-manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and its aftermath.
Psycho was seen as a departure from Hitchcock's previous film North by Northwest, having been filmed on a low budget, in black-and-white, and by a television crew.
The film initially received mixed reviews, but outstanding box-office returns prompted critical revaluation.
Psycho was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Leigh and Best Director for Hitchcock.
Psycho is now considered one of Hitchcock's best films and praised as a major work of cinematic art by international film critics and scholars.
Often ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behaviour and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre.
After Hitchcock's death in 1980, Universal Studios began producing follow-ups: three sequels, a remake, a made-for-television spin-off, and a prequel television series set in the 2010s.
In 1992, the Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Produced by: Alfred Hitchcock.
Screenplay by: Joseph Stefano.
Based on: Psycho by Robert Bloch.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntireand Janet Leigh.
Music by: Bernard Herrmann.
Cinematography: John L. Russell.
Edited by: George Tomasini.
Production company: Shamley Productions.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures.
Release date: 16 June, 1960, ( DeMille Theatre), 8 September, 1960 (United States).
Running time: 109 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $806,947.
Box office: $50 million.
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