Psycho (1960)
Theme for the night is psychologically scary. Join us for some popcorn, candy and some spine-chilling cinema.
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Joseph Stefano, and based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. Psycho is now considered one of Hitchcock's best films and praised as a major work of cinematic art by international film critics and scholars. Often ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior, and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre.
Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother. (google.ca)
New Appleby Branch opened in Appleview Plaza on October 20, 1983, having served the local neighbourhoods first as Skyway Branch (1965), and New Appleby Branch in Appleby Mall (1972).