Great performances, direction, score, a worthy classic

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2000)

I watched this one last night for a third time. As always with Hitchcock's movies, this one looks better with every time. What more can I say that hasn't already been said? The direction is amazing (and very much ahead of its time), Bernard Herman's score is possibly the best piece of music written for a motion picture, a true work of art(and it's a pity there is not a soundtrack album out) and of course Perkins' performance is totally out of this world. And forget about the famous (and too much copied) shower scene, or the detective's murder; the most horrifying scene is the one at the end where Norman Bates sits alone, thinking his mother's thoughts, and then gives to the camera THAT look- it has me scared sh**less every time I see it. A true masterpiece.