1998 · horror · mystery · thriller
Psycho
Directed by Gus Van Sant1h 44m1998
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
Our read: Psycho (1998) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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