Psycho
Films it shaped
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Argento has explicitly cited Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) as a major influence on Deep Red, even confessing, 'I adored Hitchcock, especially Psycho and The Birds. I wanted Profondo Rosso to have that same kind of suspense, where the audience is always guessing.'
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similar to Psycho and the horrors of the normal the monster was lurking inside Seth
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Anna thinks of the substance as I think of it like it's an updated take on the psycho bid
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Parasite Atlas note
Bong Joon-ho has said Lee Chang-dong taught him that genre films could carry the weight of social critique without becoming lectures, that entertainment and political anger could share the same frame. Burning and Secret Sunshine are the films that built the tradition Parasite sits inside. Bong has been just as explicit about Hitchcock: the slow infiltration of the Bates house in Psycho, the camera delving ever deeper into a structure that hides something terrible, was his model for how Parasite leads you through the Park family's home, and the film's mid-point swerve from comedy to horror echoes Psycho's own notorious genre rupture. But the deeper ancestor is Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid (1960), a Korean film about class resentment in a domestic space, which Bong has called the founding text of Korean cinema. It's on MUBI.
