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Psycho Sells Out

posted 4 years ago by ecarle (14979)
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They are slowly opening movie theaters where I live.

My significant other wanted to surprise me by buying tickets to a local theater which is playing "Psycho" in October, two showings only.

She was surprised to report that...Psycho was sold out.

Whaddya know. 60 years old and that damn movie can sell out a theater. I'm so proud.

Of course, I believe each theater is allowed to run at only 1/3 capacity. But as Hollywood hypesters know...you don't say THAT. You just say "Psycho is SOLD OUT!"

Print the legend.

[–] [email protected] (5857) 4 years ago

Psycho is a classic and the classics are always in style.

Hollywood has tried to re-invent suspense and horror movies over the years by adding more and more gore and jump scares.

Alfred Hitchcock was a true master of the art. He had suspense stripped down to the bare bones. He knew what would scare an audience. And audiences, for all their modern day "sophistication", are still scared by the same things.
The ghost story around the campfire never gets old.

You don't need to repaint a Rembrandt. You don't need to re-tell Hitchcock! His work is timeless.

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 4 years ago

I would definitely go to see it in a theater. It's not even my favorite Hitchcock film but a chance to see a classic like Psycho would be too good to miss. With the state of current films I would welcome some of the older films in a theater. It's not by accident my favorite channel is TCM.

[–] liscarkat (18388) 4 years ago

Why are you "so proud"? Were you involved in the making of "Psycho"?

[–] ecarle (14979) 4 years ago

Well, I actually meant that "tongue in cheek."

But I will elaborate.

For whatever reasons -- reasons arrived at over years and years of "pursuit" of the film -- Psycho has emerged as my favorite movie. Not "the best movie ever made." As we all know, there really isn't one of those. Though there are a GROUP of them.

So...my favorite movie...a movie 60 years old and not quite the "epic" that "Gone With the Wind" was -- has sold out a theater. People still like it. People still value it.

I'm proud.

BTW: No, I wasn't involved in the making of Psycho. But all of us film fans are involved in the "making" of the success of a movie in theaters, on TV, in writings....the greatest of films end up bringing us into their "aura" and we make them what they become: legendary. Star Wars and Star Trek are perhaps the biggest examples of this. Meanwhile, Hitchcock himself (and other filmmakers) said that they make the movie and story that THEY think is important...and then watch as the rest of us give our OWN meanings and interpretations to THEIR story. When that happens, we ARE involved in the making of Psycho and other films.