Tim Lucas Video WatchBlog: PSYCHO - The Director's Cut?

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 Tim Lucas Video WatchBlog: PSYCHO - The Director's Cut?
In today's mailbox, an interesting letter from reader Simon Coombs of London, England, alerting me to the fact that a pre-US-censor cut of Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO has been shown on the German television station RTL. Simon included this link to a German video site where Universal's most recent DVD issue of PSYCHO was reviewed in tandem with a list of scenes missing from this current version, ... (link)

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Psycho Director's Cut on TV?
Published 8/6/2008 at Filmstalker
... it's just been shown on German television. The scenes in question have been captured and examined online for comparison and although the cuts are small, they are there none the less and were made to ensure the film passed the Hays code. The cuts apparently amount to a little over eighteen seconds, but they were made none the less and in a few key scenes. Those are the key moments which you can read about in more detail, if you read German, over at Schnittberichte.com through Video Watchblog and Bloody Disgusting . It's an interesting comparison, even if ...

I Am Link
Published 8/6/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (JA) at my new plaid pants
... --- Hour Long Shower Scene - I can't imagine that whatever footage was left out of Hitchcock's Psycho for censors could make it much better, but it'd still be interesting to see some of it... and apparently it exists, because it was aired on German TV the other day. What? How? I don't know. It seems nuts. But me want now please. ...

Lost Psycho Footage Found
Published 8/11/2008 by Kirby at Movie Dearest
... Seems some rare extended footage of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark Psycho has surfaced on German television, of all places. Apparently, they have been airing the "pre-censored" cut of the classic, with more skin and blood deemed too scandalous for audiences at the time of the film's original release in 1960. ...

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