Joseph Stefano Archives

Psycho (1960)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 6, 2001Psycho-Thriller

One of the defining classics of the genre, enormously influential, muchly imitated and parodied and possibly the most over-analysed film ever. Alfred Hitchcock expertly creates a creepy psycho-thriller in which he delights in lulling us and undermining expectation

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, …

Category: Horror

6 February 200124 October 2025 by Roog

Eye of the Cat (1969)

Rating: ★★

Nov 21, 2014Psycho-Thriller

Psycho-thriller where derelict Michael Sarrazin is taken home by Gayle Hunnicutt and gets wound up in a series of games between her and batty aunt Eleanor Parker

Director: David Lowell Rich

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker, Laurence Naismith

Category: Horror

21 November 201420 October 2025 by Roog

The Kindred (1986)

Rating: ★★

Jul 15, 1999Laboratory Mutations Amok

1980s makeup effects vehicle with students uncovering mad science experiments in an old house. The effects get the better of the cast, most notedly a horrendously over-acting Rod Steiger

Director: Jeffrey Obrow, Stephen Carpenter

Actors: Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays, David Allen Brooks, Peter Frechette, …

Category: Horror

15 July 199915 June 2026 by Roog

Psycho (1998)

Rating: ★★

May 1, 1999Psycho Remake

Over Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, there hangs the single question of “Why?” The result seems a futile conceit, one only designed to infuriate those who regard the original in such high esteem

Director: Gus Van Sant

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, …

Category: Horror

1 May 199918 February 2025 by Roog