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Hitchcock's Psycho was groundbreaking for a number of reasons. In the article "Psycho at 60,"published in The Guardian, Scott Tobias notes the following ways this 1960 film became influential "Psycho lands near or atop lists of the greatest horror films ever made, but its influence is everywhere. Entire subgenres - the serial killer movie, the slasher movie, the "sexy thrillers" of 1990s and beyond - would not exist without it, and new standards were set on visceral possibilities of sound and montage, and the way a story could be structured to yank the rug out from under the audience. It was also a lesson in DIY film-making, in what a great artist could accomplish on his own dime, outside the strictures of a major studio and the bounds of public norms and standards." Select one of these characteristics or genres-- the serial killer movie, the slasher movie, the "sexy thrillers" of the 1990s sound and montage innovations, and the practice of creating extreme twists within the plot--and connect Psycho to one of its descendants. How do the films align and/or differ? Where do you see the influence most profoundly? Hitchcock's Psycho was groundbreaking for a number of reasons. In the article "Psycho at 60,"published in The Guardian, Scott Tobias notes the following ways this 1960 film became influential: - "Psycho lands near or atop lists of the greatest horror films ever made, but its influence is everywhere. Entire subgenres the serial killer movie, the slasher movie, the 'sexy thrillers" of 1990s and beyond would not exist without it, and new standards were set on visceral possibilities of sound and montage, and the way a story could be structured to yank the rug out from under the audience. It was also a lesson in DIY film-making, in what a great artist could accomplish on his own dime, outside the strictures of a major studio and the bounds of public norms and standards." Select one of these characteristics or genres-- the serial killer movie, the slasher movie, the "sexy thrillers" of the 1990s, sound and montage innovations, and the practice of creating extreme twists within the plot--and connect Psycho to one of its descendants. How do the films align and/or differ? Where do you see the influence most profoundly