The Ultimate Horror movie

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2006)

Psycho was one of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous works. It gave us a killer that looks like the rest of us. He could be living next door to you and you wouldn't know he's a killer unless you became one of his victims.
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) runs a motel. One day Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) stops overnight to rent one of the rooms. She has a secret, and that secret is that she just stoled 40 thousand dollars in an attempt to get her boyfriend Sam Loomis (John Gavin) to leave his wife an marry her. She finds more then she bargained for at the motel however.
Soon after her sister (Vera Miles) and a friend come looking for her, only to find a little mystery themselves involving Bates and his mother. Bates' mother is never seen clearly on screen, but we do hear her horrible voice a number of times. The mystery surrounding Bates and his mother is now known as one of the biggest shocks in cinematic history, along with a certain shower scene that just about everybody remembers.
Alfred Hitchcock uses lighting and camera angles, along with creepy atmosphere, to give us one of the best horror movies ever. The movie is black and white, but this only adds to the scariness of the film. This movie also contains one of the best musical scores of any horror film. I'd say only the Halloween theme matches it for scariest ever.
Psycho is, without a doubt, one of the best horror movies ever made, and it deserves its high rating on IMDb. It's in my top five list of greatest horror films and rightfully so.