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Psycho: A Black Comedy?

Psycho: A Black Comedy?

Why I can’t help but find Hitchcock’s classic horror film darkly amusing

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Oct 25, 2023
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Warning: Contains spoilers

Alfred Hitchcock’s films have been analysed and pored over by chin-stroking cineaste academics for decades. I suspect he would not have entirely approved, given his well-documented cynicism concerning such analysis. He didn’t see his films as anything more than entertainment, and famously proclaimed to François…

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