Since I've begun a new career, these past few weeks have been too hectic to enjoy one of the many summer flicks in theatres now. So, I have to resort to my vast video collection and pull out a moldy but goody. The original "Psycho," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is one of the best flicks ever created. It has suspense, dead girls in the shower, a gawky virgin with a knife, a shroud of modern mystery --kinda reminds me of an Internet date I once had.

I love all the 50s flashbacks--the cars, the clothing, the hairstyles. Plus the flick is in black-and-white. It works in giving the film that nostalgic feel. It's like a photograph of one's great-great-grandmother in a frame--the one with the haunting eyes that follow you around the room. That, coupled with a film score by Bernard Herrmann, gives the viewer a subconscious feeling of absolute dread.

The film starts out with a steamy rendezvous in a seedy hotel in the middle of summer. Just an ordinary day. Hitchcock has a nasty way of turning ordinary days into nightmarish scenarios. The film eventually progresses to the scene of the crime. And what a scene! I could watch this movie again and again. Don't be surprised if you read another review of a Hitchcock flick. He is a true master of suspense. Only a handful of directors possess his talent for scaring the crap out of us.