Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Central Square Cinema--Central Square--Psycho, 8, Fingers, 6:15, 9:50. Central II--Night of the Hunter, 6:35, 9:50, The Wild Child...
...This is Breslin at his best, the fire of a man caught in the midst of a horror he cannot understand, and the ice of a relentless chronicler of the evils of modern times. But these passages, sadly, don't sell as many copies as the blood-and-guts, psycho-killer-on-the-loose scenes--a fact of which Breslin and Schaap have obviously been apprised...
What about Jaws, which I found cinematically dazzling? "Junk," he says. "A stupid story--the techinique is meaningless." Its deficiencies, he says, show up clearly when compared to Hitchcok's Psycho.. "There was a very deep psychological justification for the horror in this film," he says. "In the shower sequence, Hitchcock created a metaphor for human fear. He also conveyed cinematically the theme of the inability to relate to another person...
...imagine Mel Brooks as a Harvard professor of Psychology (and why not?--his lectures would be great). Dr. Richard H. Thorndike, Harvard prof and Nobel Prize-winner, is called away from Cambridge to take over as director of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous in sunny California. On the way to the institute, he is told that his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances. Shortly thereafter he meets two of his associates at the institute, Dr. Montague and Nurse Diesel, played by two Brooks regulars, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman. Korman, as the neurotic, weak-willed doctor, seems...
There are other sides of Byrne's psyche that get play on this album as well. An especially interesting tidbit is a song called "Psycho Killer." This number could well be dedicated to David Berkowitz, with such lines as, "I hate people when they're not polite." Byrne lapses into French on the chorus, just to let us know that our friendly psycho is not dummy...