Welcome back to Week of Review where we’re building up to
tomorrow’s premiere of American Horror
Story: Hotel. When discussing
the incredibly limited niche of hotel horror there are basically two elephants
you all but have to address. The
most obvious we’ll be getting to tomorrow but today we’re taking a look at the
other reigning kind of the genre Psycho. Given Psycho’s incredible popularity now it’s easy to forget just what a
massively important film it was and how much it changed the horror landscape
forever. Despite being a flawed
film in a lot of key aspects there’s no doubt it’s Alfred Hitchcock’s most
influential and enduring classic and is the movie a lot of folks point to as
the first quasi-Slasher flick. The
film was based off of a book of the same name by Robert Block, which drew heavy
inspiration from the crimes of Ed Gein, the same disturbed criminal whose
actions would later inspire The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre. Given that
impressive pedigree it really shouldn’t be so surprising the film got a sequel.
