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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, revived in a spectacular new print at the 1996 Cleveland International Film Festival with co-star Janet Leigh in attendance, is probably the esteemed director’s most famous film, but while it is now hailed as one of his best, the critics were not too enthused about Hitchcock’s low-budget excursion into the genre of horror at the time of its June 1960 release. ... Russell, the same cinematographer who handled the camera work on Hitchcock’s generally mediocre television anthology program. ...
Hitchcock’s characteristic touches of black humor are very evident in Psycho, most notably in Norman’s hobby -- taxidermy. ... The stuffed birds that adorn the walls of Norman’s office were prophetic, for the master of suspense would, in his next film, offer these members of the animal kingdom an opportunity to stuff themselves by snacking on human heads in 1963’s The Birds, Hitchcock’s last film of special merit.
Approximate Word count = 730
Approximate Pages = 2.9
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