The most infamous title ever made

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2015)

Low key, psychological thriller/ horror, groundbreaking in its time, it still holds up well today. Antiheroine steal thousands and goes on the run, takes refuge in the Bates Motel (briefly)
Rather than just simply rehash the plot, like 12 billion other reviewers, I'll comment on two of my favourite scenes in this movie
As Marion chats with Bates over sandwiches that evening, we never really feel like there is any connection between the two. She is afraid of being found out, but so is Bates, so they do actually have something in common. They are both putting on a show for the other, pretending to have nothing to hide. Antiheroine and villain, conversing over sandwiches, sitting under watchful eyes of taxidermied animals. We don't see them in the same frame either which makes them both seem even more distant, detached.
Another favourite scene is Bates' thin frame standing at the edge of the lake, silently contemplating Arborgast's death, as his car slowly sinks into the muddy Waters. This shot looks like a painting, a beautiful, perfectly done shot; yet it is also creepy, as its beauty conceals Bates horrifying crimes.
(The exteriors of the house were used in the Thriller anthology series, episode 7, season 1, The Purple Room.)