Last week I had a great time revisiting the Psycho film franchise here on the blog, so my latest Flashbak list considers knock-offs of Hitchcock's classic.
Here's a snippet and url: (http://flashbak.com/we-all-go-a-little-mad-sometimes-the-5-most-blatant-knock-offs-of-psycho-1960-24386/ )
"On
release, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) was not only a huge
box office success and a magnet for controversy regarding its violence, the
film also set the horror genre on a brand new trajectory.
Suddenly,
new horror movies found themselves slavishly aping the twists and turns of Psycho,
which include “The Janet Leigh Trick”
(killing off a major character early in the action), the red herring killer (whose surprise identity is revealed in the
final act), and the “realistic”
psychological reason of his or her dementia (a condition such as schizophrenia,
for example).
Meanwhile,
other Psycho knock-offs attempt to recast the twisted Bates family
dynamic (and Oedipal Complex…) in a new fashion.
With
those qualifications in mind, these are the five most blatant Psycho
knock-offs:"
I am surprised you did not mention director William Castle's film Homicidal, one of the first and most shameless attempts to steal Hitchcock's thunder.
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