Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
Perhaps the thing that Psycho is most well-known for is a certain narrative decision it makes before the halfway mark; a plot twist so famous that it’s one of those that doesn’t usually necessitate a spoiler warning. In the rare chance you haven’t seen Psycho, consider this a loose warning, but there is a character who is followed prominently throughout the film’s first act.
So, the fact that it goes all-out as an anti-war movie and features just about every prominent young character dying by the final scene feels pretty gutsy for a film of its age. The death of the main character, Paul, at the very end is an especially brutal gut-punch, though he had an admittedly even more cruel, senseless, and frustrating demise in the 2022 All Quiet on the Western Front.
It's not the only movie that features Godzilla either dying or seeming to die at the end, but it doesn’t happen as often as you might expect, and it’s one of the things that kind of makes the original feel quite different. Also, it features one of the coolest and most memorable human characters in the entire series, Dr. Serizawa, nobly giving his life to kill Godzilla in the climax, with that whole sequence remaining surprisingly moving – and overall bittersweet – all these decades later.
*Availability in US Release Date May 28, 1958 Director Alfred Hitchcock Cast James Stewart , Kim Novak , Barbara Bel Geddes , Tom Helmore , Henry Jones , Raymond Bailey Runtime 128 mins 5 'The Wages of Fear' All the main characters, including Mario Standing as one of the greatest international films of all time, 1953’s The Wages of Fear is as continually suspenseful as it is ultimately bleak.
It looks at the civilian experience alongside the soldier’s experience, highlighting difficulties with both… but then at about the halfway mark, the man is suddenly killed, and things become solely about the woman getting placed in an even more emotionally challenging situation. It’s a dark and inevitably sad movie, but it’s more than just that, owing to its empathy and the undeniably beautiful way in which it’s shot.
*Availability in US Director Akira Kurosawa Cast Toshiro Mifune , Takashi Shimura Runtime 207 minutes 2 'Sabotage' Stevie 1936’s Sabotage is a fairly early Alfred Hitchcock movie, and shouldn’t be mixed up with the Beastie Boys song/music video of the same name… or should it be? Both are very bold and arguably influential pieces of cinema/video, with the Hitchcock Sabotage being perhaps his darkest pre-Hollywood movie, and suspenseful in a way that he’d continually double down on as he...
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