June 16, 2023

This Day in Halloween: Alfred Hitchcock’s controversial horror classic "Psycho" opens across the U.S. in 1960. / Illustration by Dominic Ho

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho premieres at the DeMille Theater, a former burlesque house, NYC in 1960. The horror classic was controversial for years, but is currently 18th on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Movies list.