Kinda dull
Although there were some good scary parts, I found the suspense kind of ho hum at times. Anybody else feel this way?
shareWell, its possible that older films don't hold up well in our "now" culture. Everything happens so much quicker now. Our attention spans are shorter and we demand more. For example, the scene with Norman cleaning up is very meticulous, but could have been a lot shorter.
By way of example, compare the start of Alien with the start of Prometheus. The first is slow and introduces you to the ship, the characters and the whole story, the second is very hurried and they are on the ground and racing off in little buggies within 20 mins. Seems overly hasty to me but that is how films are made now.
Psycho is meant to be more about the horror of the twisted mind, slowly revealing itself, and not jump scares and gore.