Hello and welcome to rated or dated. I'm Hannah Dunleavy and I am joined by Jen Offord.

Hello! And picker of this week's film, Mickey Noonan. Howdy there?

Mickey.

What film did we watch this week?

In which a murder took place in a bathroom and it was still easier to clean than my own bathroom.

Right?

Who knew?

So little blood came out of a human being when you had stabbed them. Just one rub with the mop, all done, all done. Also, though, just stop murdering people in your bathroom, can't. I can't believe we're having to have this conversation again. If you had to pick a room, though, the bathroom is the obvious choice, isn't it? Absolutely, yeah. Totally, totally. Good, good. So it's good that we're all to be each other's alibis. So it's like, slam? Right, who are we going to do? I'm going to leave all listening. We hate women. What do we do with women? Kill them, steal the corpses, dress up as them and do more murdering. Of women, whose fault is it? It's

mother's fault. Also, happy birthday, Jen. Thank you so much. Yep, this week we watch probably

the most celebrated kill scene in horror which you'll find in

1960s hitchcock masterpiece Psycho starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Lee in career defining

performances. Is Psycho the most influential horror ever made? Quite possibly. It is certainly

widely considered to be the first slasher movie

alongside the same year's peeping Tom, and the two films cemented several slasher conventions

from the unseen killer to the visceral quick-cut editing that imitates the feel of every single

knife slash. And the violence. It seems hard to believe it now when films such as the

Saw franchise and the human centipede compete to outgore and outgross each other on a seemingly

weekly basis. Why are you reminding me that in this? You're welcome. Don't pretend you've not

got posters of it all around your house, particularly in your murdery bathroom, Hannah Don't leavey.

And to be fair, nowadays, you might witness more violence in an East Ender's Christmas special,

but Psycho set a new standard for on-screen violence with his own considered truly audacious

and shocking back in 1960.

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