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Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"
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Ironically Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was originally a crime thriller and was never meant to be a horror film. Yet it turned out to be the most famous of all horror films. It had changed the horror genre from the classic "European monster" like Dracula which the "monster" is clear to a modern day horror where the "monster" is one of us, an ordinary man. The film starts off with the narratives supposed protagonist Marion Crane, Hitchcock appears to establish Crane as the main character of "Psycho" from the film's very first scenes. From here we meet her boyfriend Sam Loomis in a discussion about his in debt and alimony payments, this tends to suggest to the audience that there will be conflict arising. After the establishment of these and the catalyst of the story by way of Marion's theft of $40,000 we are introduced to minor characters. These include the...
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