Movie Time!

Well, I thought that Strait Jacket was Castle's attempt at his own Psycho, but last night I watched Homicidal and holy crap!  There are so many elements of Psycho directly, uh, referenced (?) in that movie that all of your attention could be taken up with cataloging them.

Apparently shortly after Psycho came out Castle was asking people what they thought of it and then decided to make this film.  The gimmick of this one is a timer that shows up late in the film that allows anyone who feels the need to get up and leave the theater before the ending.  They would get their money back as long as they stood in a booth declaring them a coward as everyone else who stayed for the entirety walked by.

Once again, this movie was another of Castle's that had me yelling at it.  The characters do some really dumb things and the twist is just so damned silly.  I can't say much without blowing it but once you see how odd one of the main characters looks and suss it out, there is really little chance that you wouldn't know what's going on, though I was curious as to which direction they would swing it.

All in all worth a watch, but the idea that this competes at all with Psycho is a bit of a joke.  In fact, most of it seems pretty jokey, including the trailer complete with a fake Hitchcock voiceover: