A pretty good damn movie

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2008)

Everybody knows the famous score; everybody knows the villain and most people know what kind of man Norman Bates is like.
Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starts off with Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) who robs a sum of forty-thousand dollars before driving through the California state with almost being caught by her boss and the employer she robbed the money from to the cop that pulls her over. Marion then wonders more into the state where during her departure not only does she get a new car to be incognito but stays at the Bates Motel where Norman Bates comes out and sees that she's by herself and needs company. To Marion, she thinks Norman is just a nice guy until the voices from the house start to ring where maybe something isn't right after all.
And that's where it all begins.
I love Hitchcock's "Psycho" as a thriller, but I don't get why people are calling it a great horror movie just because of the shower scene and Norman dressing like his mother. I think of Psycho as a crime/thriller/drama film where people need to understand that Marion committed a crime of stealing the money and after her death in the film, her disappearance along with the money is still involved when the detective starts questioning those involved with Marion about her whereabouts.
This is the only Hitchcock movie where I can't keep my eyes off for one damn minute.