Link first published by Little White Lies, as entry 121 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column In 1960, at the impressionable age of 12, Richard Franklin saw Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in his native Australia, and it would change his life forever. His first two features – The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975) and Fantasm (1976)…
Patrick first published by VODzilla.co Patrick opens not with sights, but with sounds. First a strange staticky noise like electricity, and then the sound of a car parking and approaching voices. An eye opens in close-up, as a male voice is heard asking, “What happened to that lunatic son of yours, anyway?” – and it is…
Psycho II first published by Little White Lies, as the 38th entry in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “See,” Mary Samuels (Meg Tilly) reassures Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) after she has persuaded him to enter his mother’s bedroom in the house on the hill above the Bates Motel. “No ghosts.” It is 22 years since Norman was…