Horror Movies

I am not a big fan of horror movies, they typically have terrible acting and stupid plots, they also scare me. But recently in my media studies class we watched the movie Psycho, and I thought is was great. The acting was superb, the editing was obviously good since its Alfred Hitchcock, and i though the plot was very well done. Although by todays standards the movie probably wouldn't even make most people flinch, i though it was still scary in its own way. For me the scariest part of the movie was the music. In the opening credits the music really got my heart pumping, even though they were just the credits and there was nothing scary i still got a little anxious just from the music. There were really only three scenes in the movie that were meant to really scare you the rest were just build up. The scene that scared me the most was not the famous shower scene were one of the main characters gets stabbed to death, but the stair case scene, were another main character gets stabbed to death. In this scene the detective is poking around the house and he begins his ascent of the stairs. Right before he get to the top a door slowly opens up. The the crazed mother (or who we think is the mother) bursts out from it and stabs him and he falls down the stairs!