"Psycho" premieres 1960

One of the best, scariest movies of all time premiered June 16, 1960.  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starred Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles and Janet Leigh.

Voted the #1 horror film of all time by WatchMojo.com
Ranked #14 on the AFI 100 Years... 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition, up 4 places from #18 in 1997
Psycho (1960) features in both the American and British Film Institutes' Top 100 lists.
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #14 Greatest Movie of All Time
This was voted the seventh scariest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly
Ranked #1 on the AFI 100 Years... 100 Thrills film series
The movie's line "A boy's best friend is his mother." was voted as the #56 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100)
The strings-only music by Bernard Herrmann is ranked #4 on AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores.

"The Manchurian Candidate" released 1962

One of the most powerful, scariest and best movies ever, The Manchurian Candidate, was released October 24, 1962.  Angela Lansbury gives a strong performance and should have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, for which she was nominated.  She did win the Golden Globe for her role.  Sinatra had actually considered Lucille Ball for Lansbury's role, Mrs. Iselin, but director John Frankenheimer went with Angela instead.

I didn't understand why she didn't get top billing instead of Janet Leigh because Angela had a larger role.  But I suppose with Janet, still riding high from her performance in Psycho, could garner the top spot.

Newsweek selected the role Mrs. Iselin as one of the top 10 Villains in movie history.