Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (Audiobook)

from jcbrunner

Horror and comedies films are the cash cows of Hollywood, the arena of cheap budgets, bad scripts and terrible actors. When Alfred Hitchcock selected to make Psycho, a financial killing was only one of his goals. Self-financing the film, he used his cheap TV production crew and cheap actors to in...

from ElizaJane

I'm a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock and "Psycho" is one of my favourite of his movies. I've just finished reading Robert Bloch's book and re-watching the original movie to prime myself for reading this account of "the making of" Psycho. An excellent book for the initiated! This takes us from an ac...

from jburlinson

Interesting story, told in the worst possible way. It's obvious Mr. Rebello researched his material carefully and thoroughly. But reading his book is like listening to a guy on an adjacent bar stool on a talking jag.

from MadMooseMama

ALFRED HITCHCOCK and the making of PSYCHO is an extremely interesting account of the machinations behind the genius of the man who created the movie Psycho. The story is informative and tells us those "secret" tidbits of information that make these kinds of non-fiction stories successful. Stephen...

from thorswitch

Before I started reading Stephen Rebello's "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho," I had never seen an Alfred Hitchcock movie. There's no particular reason for that, I just never got around to it. Still, I find "behind the scenes" stories to be fascinating, and I knew "Psycho" was a rather i...