[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

As I've said before, EVERY movie ever made has earlier versions with stuff included that eventually gets cut for a variety of reasons, so anyone screaming censorship etc etc doesn't really understand how the film business works.

If a film is released THEN cut for whatever reason in some markets, then that can be considered censorship, but it's just not the same thing if all the cuts are pre-release, since every film has those. Unless you believe every movie is censored, which 100% isn't the case. Especially before the ratings system was invented, filmmakers KNEW the limitations and worked within those. Hitchcock and others pushed the boundaries to see what they could get away with, but when things were cut that's just the way it was. And filmmakers knew and accepted that.

Fact is, Psycho is a classic and the film is not changed in the slightest but the extra bits off footage that amount to very little. It's a curiosity at best, but the US release was always the "real" release.

Dude Psycho's cuts came later. It was originally released in theaters with that trimmed footage. lmao