Psycho is still frightening after all these years.

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2010)

Psycho is probably the most visual, most cinematic picture director Alfred Hitchcock has ever made. At a lonely motel, vicious murders take place and are attributed to the manic mother of the young owner.
The film is a curious shocker devised by Hitchcock as a tease and initially received by most critics as an unpleasant horror piece in which the main scene, the shower stabbing, was allegedly directed not by Hitchcock but by Saul Bass. After enormous commercial success it achieved classic status over the years; despite effective moments of fright, it has a childish plot and script, yet it remains a hugely successful confidence trick, made for very little money by a TV crew. Psycho spawned two sequels, a prequel, a remake, and an unsuccessful television spin-off.