Crooked Table Podcast: Episode 102 — Rodrick Colbert / Psycho

When it comes to cinema history, few filmmakers compare to Alfred Hitchcock. This week, Robert Yaniz Jr. and guest Rodrick Colbert (producer of the upcoming 2nd annual Sigmund Freud Film Festival) discuss Hitchcock’s seminal 1960 classic Psycho. The film boasts not only one of cinema’s most notorious twists but essentially serves as the original slasher film. Listen in as Rob and Rodrick talk about how the story of Norman Bates changed the industry and why it has stood the test of time.

After nearly 60 years (not mention three sequels, an ill-conceived remake and a hit TV series), cinephiles still revere Psycho as one of the films to most influence the direction of filmmaking. So check in for another chilling episode of the Crooked Table Podcast. It looks like Cabin 1 is still vacant.

Synopsis of Psycho:

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.