Summer Classics Film Series
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1h 49m / R / Thriller, Mystery, Horror
TRAILER:
VENUE: Historic Duncan Auditorium
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During the writing of the book on which Psycho is based, author Robert Bloch was living 35 miles away from the real-life murders of Ed Gein, a serial killer who flayed his victims in what psychiatrists believed was an attempt to make a skin suit so he could pretend to be his dead, domineering, puritanical mother. It’s often claimed that Psycho was inspired by Ed Gein. Not so; he wasn’t caught until just before the book was finished. Isn’t it interesting what a person can imagine?
Alfred Hitchcock knew the strongest terror comes from your own imagination. He reinvented how to scare people with movies, and he did so with such precision and effectiveness that the films he made are still used as models decades later. Psycho puts you, the viewer, in such tight contact with its actors that you feel you can’t breathe. It’s like you’re physically in the room with Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, smelling old motel carpet and stale cigarettes. And the cold nonchalance with which it documents the aftermath of its violence is almost more shocking than the violence itself. It is older than the invention of the Etch-A-Sketch and it will still scare the pants off you.
FILM TALK: Guests are invited to stick around after the screening for a post-show Film Talk and audience Q&A with Ryan Terry, a film studies & screenwriting lecturer and horror/suspense cinema scholar. Film Talks are included with movie admission.
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VIEW the full Summer Classics series, showing June 1 – August 31 at
https://tampatheatre.org/movie-categories/summer-classics/.
The Summer Classics Movie Series is presented by Bank of America, series sponsor since 2015. Promotional support for the series is provided by WEDU PBS and Axios Tampa Bay.
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