Psycho

Psycho

By Alfred Hitchcock

A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writer: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch

Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

Main scenes: killing in the shower and finding the dead mother’s body.

Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

I think that this is a very good thriller because there are many things in this film that had never been done before in the history of film making, this is a film not for the faint hearted viewers, it is mainly aimed at the older generation because this is a very old film.