Psycho vs Rear Window

They are an interesting pair up.

I'll pick Psycho but I can understand those out there who prefer Rear Window.

Its been said that Rear Window is more of "the compleat Hitchocck movie," what with a romance at the center of it(James Stewart and Grace Kelly, however mismatched they seem NOW, were evidently quite the Odd Couple romance then) and all that intricate cinematic prowess on display (the pattern is: We look at Stewart look at something/POV of what he sees/we look at Stewart's reaction.)

Rear Window is also in Technicolor, and though all of Hitchcock's movies from 1925 to 1947 were in in black and white, he became known for the great COLOR of his movies from Rope on, less only a few black and whites. Psycho is the final black and white Hitchcock movie.

Psycho NOT having a romance(Janet Leigh is cut off from John Gavin early on) and NOT being in color and NOT looking very expensive, makes it seem "lesser" than Rear Window but -- in the end -- Psycho was simply more of a worldwide phenonemon and landmark film.

A few extra thoughts:

I believe that Psycho and Rear Window are Hitchcock's two biggest hits (Even the epic North by Northwest and Mount Rushmore could not beat them.)

One reason they are the two biggest hits is that BOTH movies feature a psycho killer and a bloody murder -- we just don't SEE it in Rear Window. But we IMAGINE the outcome: Lars Thorwald chopping up his wife into pieces(in the BATHTUB), putting the pieces in his suitcase, dumping all the pieces in the East River except the HEAD, which is first buried in a flowerbed(a snooping dog is killed trying to dig it up) and then moved to Thorwald's closet near where he sleeps. That is easliy as gory as the events in Psycho -- but never shown. Psycho went "all the way" with its gory murders and gory climax.

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