Today we were pointed over to the Video Watchblog, which has some very interesting news regarding Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO. Apparently an old cut was shown on a German television station, one that had been rejected by US censors! Read on for the skinny.
Video Watchblog writes, “In today’s mailbox, an interesting letter from reader Simon Coombs of London, England, alerting me to the fact that a pre-US-censor cut of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO has been shown on the German television station RTL. Simon included this link to a German video site where Universal’s most recent DVD issue of PSYCHO was reviewed in tandem with a list of scenes missing from this current version, illustrated with grabs from the RTL broadcast. Hopefully the right people at Universal can be made aware of this missing footage and ensure that it is restored to their reportedly forthcoming two-disc remastered edition, which only then could be called a true “director’s cut.”“