I can honestly say that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is a good horror movie because makes your heart pound deeply, hands sweat profusely and eyes close forcefully. It is one of the best horror movies ever, and is especially well known for the famous shower scene. What is it that makes a movie such a hit even forty years later? Psycho is a movie that makes us feel like we are riding on a roller coaster, …
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…overcome our fears. It gives us an opportunity to take off our everyday "masks" and feel free like a little kid again. Works Cited Dirks, Tim. "Horror Films." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 7th ed. ED. Behrens, Laurence. Rosen, Leonardo J. New York: Longman, 2000. 787-791 Psycho. Videocassette. Alfred Hitchcock. 1988,108min. Solomon, Stanely J. "The Nightmare World." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 7th ed. ED. Behrens, Laurence. Rosen, Leonardo J. New York: Longman, 2000. 793-800