See Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho like never before at Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace this Halloween! The classic film will be screened in a digital restoration and the iconic Psycho score played by a live chamber string ensemble.

Before being a movie, Psycho is a 1959 horror novel by American writer Robert Bloch. The novel tells the story of Norman Bates, a caretaker at an isolated motel who struggles under his domineering mother and becomes embroiled in a series of murders. A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
The novel is considered Bloch’s most enduring work and one of the most influential horror novels of the 20th century.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John Gavin, John McIntire

Thanks to Bernard Herrmann’s remarkably inventive strings-only composition, The American Film Institute has ranked the ferocious musical driving force of Psycho in the ‘Top 5 Greatest Film Scores of All Time’.

Music direction and programming by Ryan Sorensen, whose compositional credits include contributions to films such as Marmalade (2024), The Toxic Avenger (2023), Surviving El Chapo (2022) and Carpark Clubbing (2018). Additionally, he has worked closely as a music director with artists such as Go-Jo, Mia Rodriguez, Lola Scott, Mason Watts and Lane Pittman.

This event is presented in association with the Newmarket Collective who have contributed to film scores such as Talk To Me and Clickbait.
Only on Thursday October 31 at Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, Cremorne Sydney.