The making of “Psycho” was, in many ways, scarier than the film itself. At least for legendary director Alfred Hitchcock.
The horrermeister had to finance the classic 1959 film himself, risking his own money and reputation after timid studio bosses who had decided the material was too shocking and risky.
“Hitchcock,” a film that’s enormous fun despite not being especially good, tells how the English director bet the farm, or more accurately his Hollywood estate and high standard of living, on a cinematic shocker about a woman whose life literally goes down the drain after she checks into the wrong motel.