The director of Psycho is Alfred Hitchock. Alferd Hitchock was born on the 13th of August in 1899 and died on the 29th of April in 1980. He often uses these characters in his horror movies: mothers, daughters, blond women, and brids. According to the wikipedia the technique he uses is:" his style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers intovoyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear".
The comic relief is the moment in a horror film when you are in a funny secene , and you feel calm, you don't feel with a tension. Because it's a moment of relax is the moment when the people are relaxing, because he see in this moment there will be no fear. For me it's the best moment of the horror films. I don't remember laughing in the horror films. because I don't like. Yes I saw a scary movies but didn't lugh, it's not my type of film.