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Robert Hatch reviewing Psycho in The Nation, 1960 

“Psycho is being advertised more a shocker than as a thriller, and that is right— I am shocked, in the sense that I am offended and disgusted… The clinical details of psychopathology are not material for trivial entertainment; when they are used so they are an offense against taste and an assault upon the sensibilities of the audience… it makes you feel unclean.”

Robert Hatch reviewing Psycho in The Nation, 1960 

“Psycho is being advertised more a shocker than as a thriller, and that is right— I am shocked, in the sense that I am offended and disgusted… The clinical details of psychopathology are not material for trivial entertainment; when they are used so they are an offense against taste and an assault upon the sensibilities of the audience… it makes you feel unclean.”

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