Psycho City - Great White

Advantages: in depth and well thought out investigation
Disadvantages: Poor insight into women

...that happen to Christie. For example getting attacked late at night, by his car getting vandalised and not forgetting the text messages. All this added an extra and unknown dimension to the story as you never knew till the end who was doing this, the Psycho, the Jilted lover, her ex or even his own boss, the list just goes on. Also simmering away in the background of the story was this problematical relationship between Christie and his boss Dave Anger (Great name for a boss!!). With Christie knowing he is after his blood and also knowing that any mistake he makes would have him demoted and replayed but he didn?t know why he hated him with a passion as he couldn?t remember every wronging the guy. What did surprise me slightly was I did not think the author treated the very serious issue of Child Abuse as appropriately as he should of... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Not like the first
Disadvantages: bit boring

...Wondering how they could make a sequel to this, we watched this this afternoon. Its the same sort of story, but much more modern. First we see two young professional girls vying for promotion. Holly and Jen. They work in PR and at first as room-mates, they are friendly in competing, until the man they need to get an account with comes into the picture. Both sleep with him, although one of the girls is actually going out with him, and so the competition heats up. As their relationship goes bad, moves out and looks for another. This is where she finds the 'psycho!' Tess. Answering the ad at first they both seem to get on great, have a lot in common, but gradually as in the first, subtle changes happen. Hairstyles are copied, clothes are taken, and one night, Holly follows Tess wearing her clothes, and finds she enjoys... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: First of its kind. Great mystery
Disadvantages: Black and white

...CAST Anthony Perkins...............Norman Bates Janet Leigh........................Marion Crane Vera Miles.........................Lila Crane John Gavin..........................Sam Loomis Runtime................................109 minutes Country...................................USA Language........... ...................English Color......................................Blac k and White Certificate...............................UK 15 Company...............................Shamley Productions Produced by Alfred Hitchcock Music by Bernard Herrmann Special Effects by Clarence Champagne Writer Robert Bloch (novel) The original film of Psycho was hugely popular. It made a lot of money at the box office and established Hitchcock's reputation as a director and particularly as a master of suspense. It... Read review

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