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SCREENPLAY 101: PSYCHO
We've all read screenplays that function as little more than instruction manuals for directors and actors. Those are the ones we tend to put down after the first few pages. PSYCHO is the diametric opposite of that: A script that not only truly works as literature, but pierces its way into the reader's brain on a purely visceral level. Some scripts you read and appreciate; PSYCHO is just a good read.