I messaged Stephen Rebello on social media. He replied and said the Arboghast scream on the final stab is wrong and illogical. He's also working on a new book about Psycho.
I thought they didn't make mistakes? Especially on a title as important as this... except the back cover says the uncut version is what was shown in 1960 yet the message on the screen before you play the uncut version says the opposite, they sent out the wrong mono track (twice). Except for all...
They did release the "uncut version" before Universal ever did so they might know a little something. They also confirmed that Universal used their work for the new 4k version. So that.
Here's one of your previous questions "Aren't the shrieking violins supposed to represent screaming anyway?"...
Maybe some of the people who remember how long Norman's bloody hands were visible in cabin 1 can tell us when he screamed when they saw it 52 years ago.
This is a post from a German company called Turbine Media that makes box sets and Blu-Rays in another forum:
"The Universal BD / UHD is based on a new scan of the original materials plus the uncut parts coming from our 4K scan made for our BD ("2K") release of the film. Unfortunately, and...
It's clearly the first stab because the Turbine disc is the one that was from the uncut german tv version and in that one he screams on stab one. Universal messed up the audio.
If Universal would just explain the issue it would help solve the questions. I don't know what to believe.
Why was it cut after the original release? For TV? Thousands of movies must have been cut for TV at that time. And somehow the "cut version" of a movie as famous as Psycho became the only...