Budget 800k
Gross 50m
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| Psycho Cover |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Paramount Pictures (1960) (USA) (theatrical) (as A Paramount Release)
- Les Films Paramount (1960) (France) (theatrical)
- Paramount Film Service (1960) (UK) (theatrical)
- Paramount Films (1960) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Paramount (1960) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- Paramount-Films (1960) (Finland) (theatrical)
- Paramount Pictures (1965) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release) (as A Paramount Release)
- Universal Pictures (1968) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Esselte Video (1980) (Finland) (VHS)
- MCA Videocassette (1980) (USA) (VHS)
- Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (1981) (Finland) (theatrical) (re-release)
- MCA Home Video (1984) (USA) (VHS)
- MCA/Universal Home Video (1988) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
- MCA/Universal Home Video (1992) (USA) (VHS)
- Pioneer Entertainment (1997) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
- Universal Studios Home Video (1997) (USA) (VHS)
- Universal Home Entertainment (1998) (USA) (DVD)
- Action Gitanes (1999) (France) (theatrical) (re-release)
Length of the opening: 2.53m
Opening:
The first shot of the film there is non diegetic music and an audio bridge connecting the credits to the opening sequence. They provide exposition of the date time and place on the screen separately over the opening shots. The first shot is an extreme long shot which is also an establishing shot, it is of a city setting and is a birds eye view. This shot slowely pans across the city. There is then a dissolve transition used to move into the next shot. The panning continues and this pan and cross dissolve sequence happens 3 times.
The next shot to be shown is a zoom on on a random window in the city. This represents the hand of fate and the fact that this horror that is about to take place could have happened to anybody in the city and they were randomly chosen, making the audience more scared becasue it could possibly happen to them. The zoom then continues through the window like the audience are spying on the people in there. This is a very similar idea to Peeping tom, also released in 1960.
There is a panning shot across the room and then a long shot, slightly high angled of a girl very much centred in the frame. It is clear that this is who the audience should be concentrating on. The Guy is only in the edge of the shot which signifies he is less relevant. The girl shown here is the scream queen (marianne) and she is a real archetype of a scream queen that a lot of scream films from other films are based or related too.
The next shot to be shown is a zoom on on a random window in the city. This represents the hand of fate and the fact that this horror that is about to take place could have happened to anybody in the city and they were randomly chosen, making the audience more scared becasue it could possibly happen to them. The zoom then continues through the window like the audience are spying on the people in there. This is a very similar idea to Peeping tom, also released in 1960.
There is a panning shot across the room and then a long shot, slightly high angled of a girl very much centred in the frame. It is clear that this is who the audience should be concentrating on. The Guy is only in the edge of the shot which signifies he is less relevant. The girl shown here is the scream queen (marianne) and she is a real archetype of a scream queen that a lot of scream films from other films are based or related too.
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| An establishing shot from the opening |
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