Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this 1960 film thriller based on a novel by Robert Bloch is remembered for its depiction of on-screen violence and for its celebrated "shower scene." Shot on a shoestring budget of $800,000 by the crew of...

Psycho is slang for a person who is either psychopathic or psychotic. The term is often considered mildly offensive or...

A fierce group of raccoons has killed 10 cats, attacked a small dog and bitten at least one pet owner who had to get rabies shots, residents of Olympia say. Some have taken to carrying pepper spray to ward off...

[Ed. note: this article was originally publised on October 30th, 1995.] Mr. Big calls, only a little pissed off, from China. He’d sent his luggage via an express delivery service and now it’s lost, and he’s sitting in his hotel room with only a pair...

Imagine the true confessions of Bret Easton Ellis. Not just the sex and the drugs and the sappy pop-music soundtrack; not just the pseudo-celebrity, the small-world publishing gossip and the flash profits from minimalist anomie and splatter-porn; not just, as he puts it, “Propaganda designated...

The lone survivor of a shooting rampage in which an off-duty deputy killed six people and himself says he still doesn't understand why his one-time friend staged the attack.Charlie Neitzel also was shot during the Oct. 7 blaze of gunfire but said he survived by...

How does Hitchcock' create shock and suspense in Psycho?