Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

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Here is the complete inside story on the making of psycho, the forerunner of all psychothrillers. Rebello takes us in the back of the scenes at the creation of one of cinema’s boldest and most influential films. From Hitchcock’s private files and from new in-depth interviews with the stars, writers, and technical crew we get a unique and unparalleled view of the master at work.

Rebello’s carefully researched book tells us everything we could ever wish to know about the making of psycho. Starting from the gruesome crimes that inspired the novel on which the film is based, he takes us through the novel’s adaptation into a screenplay and the film’s preproduction, shooting, postproduction, and ultimate reception. Rebello’s technique is as painstaking and thorough as
Hitchcock’s—he includes an implausible amount of detail and in doing so reveals what mattered the most to Hitchcock in the process of making his movies.

If you do not imagine us when we say that Stephen Rebello’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho is a killer book concerning the killer movie of all time, then why not listen to Tony Perkins, the star? Perkins known as this scholarly yet super-readable volume “marvelously researched and impossible to resist … required reading not only for Psycho-philes, but also for anyone interested in the backstage world of movie creation.” And Time critic Richard Schickel (biographer of Clint Eastwood) calls Rebello’s book “probably the most best accounts of the making of an individual movie we’ve ever had.”

It’s even more reliable than Francois Truffaut’s magisterial interview book Hitchcock, because Rebello interviewed the fat master himself, plus many Psycho insiders less cagey and truth-dodging than he.

At last, thanks to Rebello, we know all about the celebrated shower murder scene and all that swirls around it. Like Ernst Lubitsch, who conveyed the thrill of adultery by having the lovers open a door and cast their shadows on a bed, Hitchcock knew that, in film, artful discretion may also be the most shocking effect of all. –Tim Appelo

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