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After the film's release, Paramount transferred the film rights to Hitchcock, who later sold the distribution rights to
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Psycho is the top listed Hitchcock film in The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time by Entertainment Weekly, and the highest
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El Periódico de Catalunya
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20180721/muere-mac-macario-gomez-cartelista-doctor-zhivago-quo-vadis-6955323 -
Turner Classic Movies
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24944/psycho#notes -
AFI Catalog of Feature Films
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/53260 -
USC Dornsife
http://dornsifelive.usc.edu/news/stories/2140/8-reasons-psycho-taps-into-the-psyche/ -
"Psycho (1960)"
https://web.archive.org/web/20150116084156/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b39fc24 -
Box Office Mojo
https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=psycho.htm -
"The Critics' Corner: PSYCHO"
https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/191165 -
"Psycho (1960) – Full Synopsis"
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24944/psycho#synopsis -
Dollar inflation
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1972?amount=806947 -
Dollar inflation
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1972?amount=50000000 -
The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/psycho-turns-60-hitchcocks-famous-fright-film-broke-all-the-rules-140175 -
Projected fears: horror films and American culture
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Psycho
https://rottentomatoes.com/m/psycho/ -
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ -
Variety
https://variety.com/1992/film/news/diverse-pix-mix-picked-101808/ -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 83.
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Rebello 1990, pp. 7–14
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Reavill 2007, p. 228 "With only two confirmed kills, Ed did not technically qualify as a serial killer (the traditional
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"The Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre: How ed Gein Inspired Classic Horror Movies"
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-real-texas-chainsaw-massacre-how-ed-gein-inspired-classic-horror-movies/ -
Rebello 1990, pp. 19–20
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 6.
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Rebello 1990, pp. 18–19
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Rebello 1990, p. 23
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Rebello 1990, pp. 26–29
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The Making of Psycho, 1997 documentary directed by Laurent Bouzereau, Universal Studios Home Video, available on selecte
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 36–37.
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Rebello 1990, p. 39
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Tangentially mentioned by interviewer of Stefano Joseph Stefano Archived September 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine but
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Creative_Screenwriting_-_Interview_with_Joseph_Stefano -
Smith 2009, p. 15
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"Interview in Creative ScreenWriting Journal. Reproduced at"
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Creative_Screenwriting_-_Interview_with_Joseph_Stefano -
Truffaut & Scott 1967, p. 268
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 33–34.
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Smith 2009, p. 16
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 39.
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Caminer & Gallagher 1996
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Rebello 1990, p. 47
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"Interview with Stefano"
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Creative_Screenwriting_-_Interview_with_Joseph_Stefano -
Rebello 1990, p. 13
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 96–97.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 86, 173.
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See WikiMapia {Coordinates: 34°8'12"N 118°20'48"W}.
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USA Today
https://web.archive.org/web/20071205221154/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2674_130/ai_76550723 -
"'Psycho' Voted Best Movie Death: British Film Magazine Rates It Ahead Of 'Strangelove', 'King Kong'"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/psycho-voted-best-movie-death/ -
Rebello 1990, p. 28
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 12–13.
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Truffaut & Scott 1967
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Variety
https://variety.com/1960/film/news/alfred-hitchcock-to-make-at-least-5-million-for-psycho-1201341585/ -
"More Movies You Probably Forgot Were Indies"
https://www.sagindie.org/indieblog/more-movies-you-probably-forgot-were-indies/ -
The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-greatest-independent-films-of-the-twentieth-century -
Bright Lights Film Journal
http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090713102843/http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/14/psycho.html -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 22–23.
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Rebello 1990, p. 128
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 88.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 66.
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Rebello 1990, p. 93
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 24–26.
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Rebello 1990, p. 90
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Wagstaff 2004, p. 234 See also Liner notes to CD recording of score by Joel McNeely & Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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The Atlantic Monthly
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96may/hopper/hopper.htm -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 73.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 62.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 46–47.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 55.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 59.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 87–88.
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Truffaut & Scott 1967, p. 273
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 85–86.
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Allen 2007, p. 21.
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Rebello 1990, p. 97
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Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-shower-scene-why-45seconds-of-hitchcock-s-psycho-still-haunt-us-a7967676.html -
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/06/top-10-film-moments-usual-suspects-psycho -
McGilligan 2003, p. 594
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Skerry 2008, pp. 231–56
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Hitchcock, cited in Schickel & Capra 2001, pp. 293, 308
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Chicago Sun-Times
https://web.archive.org/web/20060628034544/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19961215%2FANSWERMAN%2F612150303%2F1023 -
Evening Standard
https://archive.today/20130112094906/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20041004/ai_n12103901 -
Smith 1991, p. 236
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Palmer 1990, pp. 273–274
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Smith 1991, p. 240
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Smith 1991, p. 241
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Smith 1991, p. 236.
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Psycho – Bernard Herrmann Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Soundtrack-express.com. Retrieved November 21,
http://www.soundtrack-express.com/osts/psycho.htm -
Smith 1991, p. 237
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Palmer 1990, p. 274
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Palmer 1990, p. 275
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Smith 1991, p. 238
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Hollywood Bowl
https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/musicdb/pieces/2992/psycho-a-narrative-for-string-orchestra -
Eugene Chadbourne. Music from the Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers at AllMusic
https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000654666 -
Wise Music Classical
https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/59545/Psycho-A-Narrative-for-String-Orchestra-ed-Mauceri--Bernard-Herrmann/ -
"Friday Night at the Movies"
http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=3530 -
"Bernard Herrmann and 50th anniversary of Psycho" Archived June 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Americanmusicpreservat
http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/Psychofilmscore.htm -
"Soundtrack details: Psycho" Archived January 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. SoundtrackCollector. Retrieved November 2
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=2327 -
Psycho
https://web.archive.org/web/20140226160802/http://www.varesesarabande.com/servlet/the-605/Psycho/Detail -
Psycho (1960) Archived May 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
http://www.filmsite.org/psyc.html -
"Psycho – Classic Hitchcock Horror Turns 50"
http://www.voxy.co.nz/entertainment/psycho-%E2%80%93-classic-hitchcock-horror-turns-50/1117/51910 -
Winecoff, Charles (1996). Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-94064-2.
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Mama's Boy: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture
https://books.google.com/books?id=H1MDVe9B0UEC&pg=PA111 -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 112.
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"'Psycho' and deadly sin"
https://web.archive.org/web/20101109140520/http://cinepad.com/plumbing4.htm -
Psycho
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/22/psycho-horror-hitchcock -
Seattle Weekly
https://web.archive.org/web/20071205070358/http://www.seattleweekly.com/1998-12-09/film/hit-the-showers.php -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 105–106.
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Kevin Rockett, Irish Film Censorship: A Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography (Dublin: Four Courts
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"Psycho"
https://www.bbfc.co.uk/education/case-studies/psycho -
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1960/06/17/archives/screen-sudden-shocks-hitchcocks-psycho-bows-at-2-houses.html -
Variety
https://variety.com/1960/film/reviews/psycho-1200419814/ -
Variety
https://archive.org/stream/variety219-1960-08#page/n76/mode/1up -
Rebello 1990, p. 21
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Rebello 1990, p. 82
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Variety
https://archive.org/stream/variety219-1960-06#page/n292/mode/1up -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 95.
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"MPAA Ratings System"
http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/mpaa.htm -
Entertainment Weekly
https://web.archive.org/web/20130624160700/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,304598,00.html -
Variety
https://variety.com/2015/film/news/psycho-grease-rerelease-tcm-presents-1201515588/ -
Television Obscurities
http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/cbs_and_psycho/ -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 187.
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"WABC to Tone Down Ppsycho for June 24" Archived July 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. The New York Times, June 1, 1967
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/01/archives/wabc-to-tone-down-psycho-for-june-24.html -
"Discovision Library: Psycho"
http://www.blamld.com/DiscoVision/Library.htm -
Movie Censorship
http://www.movie-censorship.com/news.php?ID=7614 -
"Psycho UNCUT!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHDdcZ56HSA -
UK DVD and Blu-ray Releases: Monday 9th August 2010 Archived July 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine -filmdetail.com
http://www.filmdetail.com/2010/08/09/uk-dvd-and-blu-ray-releases-monday-9th-august-2010-hitchcock-psycho-the-seven-ups-spiral/ -
Australian Blu-ray releases W/C Monday November 29, 2010 Archived August 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine -blurayaustral
http://blurayaustralia.com/2010/11/australian-blu-ray-releases-wc-monday-november-29-2010.html -
Dread Central
https://dreadcentral.com/news/38019/official-cover-art-psycho-blu-ray -
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-The-Essentials-Collection/dp/B005EVY8MQ/ref=sr_sp-btf_title_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1375565058&sr=8-14&keywords=Psycho -
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Masterpiece-Collection-Limited/dp/B008DCAG9M/ref=sr_sp-btf_image_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1375565232&sr=8-6&keywords=psycho+blu+ray -
ScreenCrush
https://screencrush.com/uncut-psycho-alfred-hitchcock-classics-collection/ -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 99–102.
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Smith 2009, p. 175
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These are from (in order): The New York Times, Newsweek and Esquire.
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Kapsis 1992, p. 58.
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These are from (in order): Daily News (New York), New York Daily Mirror, and The Village Voice
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Los Angeles Times
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111492569/psycho/ -
alumnus.caltech.edu
https://web.archive.org/web/20120327102838/http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/cahiers.html -
Miami Herald
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111507949/psycho/ -
St. Petersburg Times
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111508116/psycho/ -
The Washington Post
https://archive.org/details/per_washington-post_1960-07-28_236/page/n19/mode/2up -
The Evening Star
https://newspapers.com/article/evening-star/148804047/ -
The Washington Daily News
https://newspapers.com/article/the-washington-daily-news/148804033/ -
Chicago Daily Tribune
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111492290/psycho/ -
Buffalo Evening News
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111500303/psycho/ -
Boston Globe
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111492096/psycho/ -
Detroit Free Press
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111508700/psycho/ -
Psycho
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer/148803896/ -
Rocky Mountain News
https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19600818-01.2.179&srpos=19&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA-Hitchcock%27s+Psycho----1960---0------ -
Variety
https://archive.org/stream/variety219-1960-08#page/n67/mode/1up -
Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 103–106.
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Evening Standard
https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard/148804290/ -
Daily Mirror
https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-mirror/148804342/ -
Sunday Mirror
https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-mirror/148804456/ -
Sunday People
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sunday-people/107587415/ -
Sunday Dispatch
https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-dispatch/148804508/ -
The Daily Telegraph
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-psycho/134244420/ -
The Daily Telegraph
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/148804395/ -
The Observer
https://theguardian.newspapers.com/article/the-observer/148804555/ -
The Guardian
https://theguardian.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian/148804424/ -
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A Library of America Special Publication
https://books.google.com/books?id=tkShTL84MrcC&q=the+age+of+movies+selected+writings+pauline+kael -
Kapsis 1992, p. 63.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 180–181.
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Hardy 1986, p. 137
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Rotten Tomatoes
https://rottentomatoes.com/m/psycho// -
"Psycho (1960) Reviews"
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/psycho-1960 -
Psycho
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-psycho-1960 -
Variety
https://archive.org/stream/variety219-1960-06#page/n284/mode/1up -
Indiewire
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/psycho-turns-60-this-week-1960-release-1202237395/ -
Box Office Mojo
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0054215/?ref_=bo_se_r_1 -
The Hollywood Story
https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA358 -
Stephen Rebello, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Soft Skull Press, Berkeley, 1990.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 141.
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"The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners"
http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 -
"13th DGA Awards"
https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1960s/1960.aspx?value=1960 -
"Category List – Best Motion Picture"
https://edgarawards.com/category-list-best-motion-picture/ -
"Psycho"
https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/psycho -
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ -
"Nominees & Winners – Satellite™ Awards 2005 (10th Annual Satellite™ Awards)"
https://web.archive.org/web/20080202163316/http://www.pressacademy.com/satawards/awards2005b.shtml -
"2008 Satellite Awards"
https://www.pressacademy.com/award_cat/2008/ -
"Past Saturn Awards"
https://web.archive.org/web/20080914184217/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html -
"Awards Winners"
https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 -
"TV Guide's 50 Greatest Movies"
http://www.listal.com/list/tv-guides-50-greatest -
"100 Scariest Movie Moments"
https://web.archive.org/web/20071030070540/http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/index.shtml -
Premiere Magazine
https://web.archive.org/web/20081216053115/http://beta.premiere.com/List/The-25-Most-Shocking-Moments-in-Movie-History/4.-Psycho -
Sight & Sound
https://web.archive.org/web/20160207035347/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/critics -
Sight & Sound
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/directors-100-best -
Sight & Sound
https://web.archive.org/web/20120515211647/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-long.html -
listal.com
https://www.listal.com/list/sight-sound-2002-directors -
"Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 The Rest of Director's List"
https://web.archive.org/web/20170201155933/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/directors-long.html -
bfi.org
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time -
bfi.org
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/directors-100-greatest-films-all-time -
AMC Filmsite.org
http://www.filmsite.org/timeout2.html -
The Village Voice
https://web.archive.org/web/20070826201343/http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/take/one/full_list.php3?category=10 -
"TCM's 15 most influential films of all time, and 10 from me | Roger Ebert's Journal"
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/tcms-15-most-influential-films-of-all-time-and-10-from-me -
"Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time"
http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html -
The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
https://archive.org/details/alistnationalsoc00jayc -
filmsite.org
https://www.filmsite.org/alist.html -
Time
https://entertainment.time.com/2005/02/12/all-time-100-movies/slide/psycho-1960/ -
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4323968.stm -
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/12/martin-scorsese-scariest-films-the-haunting-shining -
Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-best-horror-movies-of-all-time-20141008 -
"The 100 Greatest Movies"
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-movies/ -
Empire
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/500-greatest-movies/ -
Time Out
https://www.timeout.com/london/film/best-horror-films -
Editors Guild Magazine
https://web.archive.org/web/20150317101140/https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 -
"The 100 Greatest American Films"
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films -
Variety
https://variety.com/lists/best-movies-of-all-time/ -
Variety
https://variety.com/lists/best-horror-movies-of-all-time/repulsion-1965-2/ -
Brill 1988, pp. 200–201
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Brill 1988, p. 223
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Brill 1988, p. 224
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Brill 1988, p. 228
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Brill 1988, p. 229
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Brill 1988, p. 225
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Brill 1988, pp. 225–226
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 90–93.
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The Material Image: Art And the Real in Film
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Allen 2007, p. 161.
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Kaganski 1997
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828154 -
faroutmagazine.co.uk
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/10-movie-accurate-psychopaths-fbi/ -
"Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of a Film Culture"
https://web.archive.org/web/20101105001845/http://www.mysterynet.com/hitchcock/silet/ -
"Psycho (1960)"
http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Psycho_1960_rev.html -
The New Indian Express
https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/english/2018/sep/08/how-alfred-hitchcocks-psycho-changed-the-way-movies-are-made-1869267.html -
"Psycho Analyzed"
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/psycho-analyzed-20100302 -
Variety
https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/7852-review-psycho-1201966555/ -
"Alfred Hitchcock: Our Top 10"
https://web.archive.org/web/20041211002501/http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/specials/1999/hitchcock/best.html -
Cinephilia & Beyond
https://cinephiliabeyond.org/psycho-proto-slasher-brought-revolution-cinema/ -
The New York Observer
https://observer.com/2015/10/before-psycho-there-was-peeping-tom/ -
Bloody Disgusting
https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3491215/listicle-of-death-five-of-the-biggest-genderfk-reveals-in-horror/ -
Berardinelli, James
http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/p/psycho.html -
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http://www.filmsite.org/psyc.html -
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 159.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, pp. 132–133.
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 186.
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Reuters
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Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-speak-now-haunted-live-performance-throwback-1234783735/ -
far Out
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/billy-joel-we-didnt-start-the-fire-every-event-referenced-history-jfk-bob-dylan/ -
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Nickens & Leigh 1996, p. 113.
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Ebert, Roger Psycho III. Roger Ebert' Movie Home Companion. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1991
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Variety
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Rotten Tomatoes
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/psycho_2/ -
Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Collider
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Web Wombat
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