/lit/ - Literature

>>20456851
Tbh, it's been so long since I read the Bloch book, I couldn't say. Hitchcock had always been interested in the dark undercurrents and/or subversion of middle class/bourgeois normality (Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, etc). Psycho takes that theme and turns it much darker and more violent. It is far and away Hitchcock's most shocking film (with the possible exception of the strangulation in Frenzy), and seems to reflect the impending violence and social upheaval of the 60s.

Certainly the basic plot is from Bloch, but who would remember the book Psycho if Hitchcock had not adapted it into such a powerful and groundbreaking film?