Psycho (1960) + Extras [w/Commentary]

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.



Audio Commentary with Stephen Rebello, Author of "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"

Extras:
- 5.1 audiotrack and Original 2.0 audiotrack
- "Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho" - a long and very informative featurette focusing on the production history of Alfred Hitchcock's film. The featurette contains numerous interviews with Peggy Robertson, personal assistant to the director, filmmaker Clive Barker, screenwriter Joseph Stefano, assistant director Hilton A. Green, actress Janet Leigh, and others who recall discuss how the film came to exist, its importance (Barker), how certain scenes were shot, etc. (94:13)
- "In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy" - a wonderful featurette about the influence Alfred Hitchcock's films had on Cinema and many important film directors, composers, etc (25:58)
- "Hitchcock / Truffaut" - a great, hilarious conversation between the two film directors, discussing certain scenes, filming techniques, characters, etc. (15:20)
- "Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho" featurette (7:45)
- "The Shower Scene: With & Without Music" - allows one to view the famous scene with or without music (2:30)
- "The Shower Sequence: Storyboards by Saul Bass" image gallery (4:10)
- "Psycho Sound" - a look at the audio restoration work, with comments by the audio experts who performed the restoration work: Olivier Attia (Audionamix), Larry Walsh, Richard LeGrand, and Fabrice Benoit (9:57)
- "Lamb to Slaughter" - a short film, based on Roald Dahl's novel, about a man and a woman who must part ways (26:08)
- Theatrical Trailer (6:35)
- Re-Release Trailers (1:50)

Psycho II (1983) + Extra [w/Commentaries]
Psycho III (1986) [w/Commentary]