Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: PSYCHO

Episode Date: January 29, 2021

For our second January bonus episode we are recapping the Alfred Hitchcock film that influenced so many great horror films to come - Psycho!   Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, bonus episode of January. Of January. of January. I'm Emily here for you Tony heads. I'm Henley and I am here for you Tony heads now and forever. And I'm Tony Collette. Oh, there we go. Here she is. Here all the way from Australia to be on my favorite podcast oh my god wait sammy you know that my mom loves it when you do accents my mom is gonna be so happy there's no way tony collette sounds like that that was like crocodile dundee the thing about actors that are from different countries is i feel like they all have american accents like charlie starin has an american accent now i feel like they their accent just

changes this is not true obviously of all actors from different countries but i don't think tony's accent is very strong you know the weirdest one to me is me is Nicole Kidman because I never hear her speak in an Australian accent. That's true. That's true. She has an accent. She just has like an actress accent. You know what I mean? She just speaks like an actress. Yeah. She just speaks like Nicole Kidman speaks, but

hearing her use an Australian accent is disorienting to me. It's like I find Robert Pattinson speaking with his regular British accent to be disorienting to me. It's like I find Robert Pattinson speaking with his regular British accent to be disorienting. So, second bonus episode of the month. First one, we did History of Slashers. Now

we are going to do a recap of the movie that inspired the slashers to come, which is Psycho. And Sammy, give us those stats. Well, it came out in 1960, directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Joseph Stefano, based on the novel by Robert Block, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, and John Gavin. Great. Love those stats. Great stats. They're good stats. Perfect stats. It's available to rent for $ Gavin. Great. Love those stats. Great stats. They're good stats. Perfect stats. It's available to

rent for $3.99. I rented on Apple TV this time. I usually rent on Amazon. I did Amazon. And I decided I'm going to split my money between our corporate overlords. Wow, yeah. It eats a little piece of the pie.

A good old tech oligarchy that controls the world. But yeah, we're just going to get right into a little bit of trivia on it. Let's do it. First, I will say it was nominated for four Oscars. Wow. Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction. Did not win any of them. Big loser.

That's interesting because the Oscars have a history of not recognizing things that are technically considered horror movies. I don't know if they called this a horror movie or not. They would have had to. Yeah, I think at the time, people were disgusted by this film. Right. I will say I've seen so I watched it for this, but I also watched it in high school for film class and it scared the shit out of me. I was so scared watching Psycho and I almost was bummed last night when I watched. I like couldn't even recall

why I would have been that scared like it was like I was so far from feeling scared by it and I do think partially it's because when you know what happens that makes it a lot less scary but I also just was like this is it's great but I

mean I've just been my brain is in a different place now I mean that I've just been my brain is in a different place now. I mean, that's a tremendous growth, Emily. Thank you. That's the purpose of the pod. That's the purpose of the pod. But yeah, it doesn't really hit the same way. So do we know when it came out?

It sounds like it was really successful because it was nominated for these Academy Awards. Yes. But was it like a budgetary success? Yes. And you know what? Damn it, I didn't write down the budget and the gross but I so it's a universal picture

and picture. The picture is a movie. A picture show. And they were certain that it was going to be a big flop. And so Alfred Hitchcock deferred his normal salary for back end points. So he would he normally would get two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in 1960. That's a lot in 1960.

Yeah. And there's a lot right now. I would take it. That's true. Yeah, I take it. That's true. Yeah, I'd take it. And instead he got 60% of the gross. Oh, and that's probably

good. And he ended up making 15 million instead of 250,000. That's why you believe in yourself, baby. That's why you believe in yourself. And where does this line up in Hitchcock's filmography? It was right after North by Northwest and Vertigo.

And so he had just done, yeah, two like huge commercial success. I think because there was not like women getting murdered on screen was not that did not have mass appeal. Yeah, this was people were like, this film is disgusting. Walt Disney said he would never allow Alfred Hitchcock to film on his lot because he made that disgusting film, Psycho. Yeah, Disney. They thought it was going to be a big flop. Interesting. Yeah.

a big flop interesting yeah and then the score is by Bernard Hermans and Hitchcock was so happy with the score that he doubled his salary to

$34,501 which is amazing here take some of my $15 million I was gonna say, you did such a good job for my movie. That's the doubled, so it was $15,000. Yeah. Then that

extra $1 on there. I mean, it is really rare. That doesn't happen anymore. Now, if you do a really good job, if you go above and beyond, people are like, good, that's what you should have done. Always. You go above and beyond or people are like, good, that's what you should have done. Always. You go above and beyond or you're fired. Exactly. Work till you die.

Any more trivia? The only other thing I mean, I'm sure there's lots of trivia about this movie. I was scrolling through a little bit on our trusty IMDB and the list just kept going and going and going. Sure, sure, sure. But one thing I wrote down to get us into our next order of business is that the original trailer for this movie was six and a half minutes long. That's what played in the theaters was a six and a half minute trailer for this. The trailer that we will be watching is not. Great.

But imagine making a six and a half minute trailer. It's too long. Can you trailer. It's too long. Can you believe? It's too long. Too long. Let's watch the dang trailer. Let's do it. You have a vacancy.

Oh, we have 12 vacancies. You know, this is the first place it looks like it's hiding from the world. I think that. We're all in our private traps, clamped in them. And none of us can ever get out. Is anyone at home? Oh, that must be my mother. Is anything wrong?

Am I acting as if there's something wrong? She's not missing so much as she's run away. Put me down! Mother! Oh, God! Mother! What are you running away from? She looked like a wrong one to you? It's not as if she were a... a maniac. She just goes a little mad sometimes.

She just goes a little mad sometimes. That's fun. I love his snacking. He's a good snacker. Also, good long neck. He really is like that shot. His neck is really well. Also, all I can think about is that the line from Scream, I can think about Skeet saying

it. We all go a little mad sometimes. All I can think about is how much I miss Universal Studios and going on that backlot tour and seeing the Bates Motel. Yeah, did you guys watch the series Bates Motel?

No. I never saw it either Queen Vera though Queen exactly assistant queen to Tony assistant vice queen if you will she's next in line in the succession Emily I can see why this would scare you in high school if you like didn't hadn't seen it before and you're like don't like scary movies it's frightening for sure it really definitely was very scary the first time I saw it I just I think I just anticipated it still being

somewhat as scary for me and it just very much was not but but I think that is has more to do with knowing what happens and I think so because it takes away all of the suspense it takes away all of the suspense and and and

because like a lot of scary movies now or other scary movies I guess even when you know what's coming it's still scary like I don't know there's something about this where like if you know it kind of ruins it it just kind of becomes it becomes a drama like it's just like fun to watch there the

the acting i mean he's so good in it he's so he is so good and it's obviously it's hitchcock so it's directed so well the music is really great so it just is like a great movie and yeah it doesn't feel super scary but he's so good in it oh my god he's so good in it. Oh, my God. He's so good in it. How fun. It is fun. I will say this only time I've rewatched it to watch knowing and being like, look what you're doing. Look at your acting. You're doing so great. So that was fun.

Well, I yeah, I've never seen it before. And I know kind of like the beats of the movie, but I don't actually know. I really don't know what the actual story is. So I'm excited to hear about it let's freaking talk about it let's do it to hear the rest of this episode and to get access to all previous bonus episodes and future bonus episodes head on over to patreon.com slash TSDW podcast and join Tony fucking Colette's inner circle. Otherwise, we will see you here next week for your regularly scheduled programming. Love you. Bye.