Saturday, March 7, 2015

Psycho Spoiler

Okay, I know it's a 55-year-old classic and everyone's seen it, but why in the world would Comcast/Xfinity give away key details in its plot description for Psycho?



Here is how it describes the movie (spoiler alert):

A psychotic motel owner obsesses over his late mother while becoming the prime suspect in a murder case involving one of his recent guests--a pretty secretary who checked into the motel and never checked out. An undisputed horror masterpiece.

Never mind the run-on sentence. We're not supposed to know the mother is dead until the end of Act II, or that the motel owner is psychotic until the climax of the film. Arghh!

Here's my rewrite:

Lonely motel owner obsessively protective of his mother has fateful encounter with a pretty secretary on the lam after stealing money from her boss to be with her boyfriend.

Or:

Pretty secretary impulsively steals $40,000 from her boss to be with her boyfriend. While on the lam, she has a fateful encounter with a lonely motel owner who's obsessively protective of his sick mother.

Or:

When a pretty secretary disappears after stealing money from her boss, her sister and boyfriend trace her to a motel owned by a lonely mama's boy. 
Seriously, Xfinity, or whoever writes your program descriptions. Do better.

Love, hosaa
Shocked and appalled.