Historical and Institutional Influences of Hitchcock

Psycho

Psycho is a film by Alfred Hitchcock and making this movie a hard process. Alfred Hitchcock was denied funding by Paramount and Hitchcock decided to fund it himself. After a compromise, the movie was decided to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Even it was a Paramount picture, it was filmed in a different studio. This film increased the popularity of Hitchcock and propelled him into higher popularity.

The movie Psycho cemented and popularized the slasher genre. Although it wasn't the first of its kind, it was one of the ones to become popular to mass media. This movie fearlessly showed violence and was accepted by the mass media. It put itself in black and white because the movie would have been far too gory if seen in color and that it was cheaper to produce in black and white. The movie hit just below $1 million for production costs. This gave Hitchcock some financial troubles because of the self production cost of the movie. 

Psycho ended up being a path-maker to the ways of Slasher movies. It is regarded as a classic, as it should. It resisted the studio system by being self-produced because of Paramount disagreeing to fund the movie because of its content.