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I am always fascinated by how much of what was supposed to be a shock or a surprise to the audience (and was at the time) was given away prior to the release of PSYCHO. Even Hitchcock tells us a murder takes place in the shower in his famous comedic trailer for it, which I never saw prior to...

My larger point about that was not that we would be confused whether or not Arbogast was killed (in the later edited version). It was more that Hitchcock would not have taken the too quick and easy route of suggesting a single knife plunge is all it takes for Arbogast to be "dispatched quickly...

Lol. Of course, the length of that hands shot and I would say even the number of knife plunges in the Arbogast scene would not have been nearly as memorable as the bra removal shot in the peephole scene because, unlike that bra removal shot, they did not elicit a specific audience-wide response...

To be fair it was a perfect storm of conditions that allowed many if not most of us who had seen it in its orginal years of theatrical release to miss that something had been cut. In addition to that convenient few years' gap/window between its major commercial theater showings and the first...

I still maintain one of the reasons the far less lurid, bloody and violent elements of the peephole scene, Norman's hands in the clean up scene and the stabbing of Arboghast were left out as they had been edited out for the more family-friendly late 1960s TV version is because PSYCHO and the...

Yes, I am absolutely certain that I and thousands of other audience members were not mysteriously treated to the German or French versions of PSYCHO in Cincinnati, Ohio and later in and around Los Angeles, California for the 6-7 times I saw it in their theaters from 1960 to 1964 or so. By the...

Yes. And to make matters worse and further confuse the issue, on the recent 60th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray disc that I have that does indeed include the Original Uncut Version of PSYCHO that we sat in U.S. theaters and watched many times in its original theatrical release from 1960 until the...