CITY Screen, York, will be going "a little off-piste" in its choice of special screening to mark Mothering Sunday on March 6, namely Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 psychological thriller Psycho.
That's right, Psycho, the one with the smothering mother figure, Norma Bates. "Certainly one of the most influential of all horror films," says City Screen's brochure, introducing "Hitchcock's stunningly realised tale of a strange young man (Anthony Perkins's Norman Bates) under the control of his domineering mother at the Bates Motel.
"Bernard Herrmann's famed all-strings score enriches the film considerably and provides some of the most famous music in cinema history, with the innovative, nerve-jangling, violent 'screams' which accompany the stabbing of Janet Leigh in the shower."
Psycho (15) will be shown at 1pm on March 6, followed by a Thursday matinée screening on March 10 at 10.45pm. Box office: 0871 9025726 or at picturehouses.com/cinema/York_Picturehouse
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