Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by rico (A) on October 30, 2004 at 10:23:38

Watched this and the making of documentary last night. I never tire of it and think that the music is one of Bernard Herrman's finest efforts. Herrman told Hitch he was using strings only to achieve a "black and white" sound. The idea to reprise the shrieking strings from the shower scene in the fruit cellar sequence came late in production. Hitch used his TV crew here but also his feature film editor.

I am one of the few who alos like the Gus Van Sant word for word remake (a couple of things were changed because of topicality and of course the $40K became $400K).

In the 1970's the Cleveleand Plain Dealer ran this in its TV listings: "7:00 p.m., Channel 4, "Psycho" (1960, b&W): a boy and his mother try to make a go of a motel that has been bypassed by a new superhighway."