Hitchcock delivers another triumph from a simple storyline

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2019)

Another classic Alfred Hitchcock directed film from 1960 featuring one of the most iconic scenes in cinematic history.
It may be over fifty years old but a good story holds up no matter what. Hitchcock certainly knew how to bring a simple, suspenseful story to the big screen.
Shot in old black and white I wasn't expecting much. How wrong I was.
Featuring a psychotic individual with multiple psychiatric conditions, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).
He slashes Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in the famous shower scene only about half way through the film. The music reminded me of the iconic Jaws theme by John Williams. Composer Bernard Herrman was behind the iconic slash theme.
The film brings iconic horror elements to the screen many years before the Halloween and Freddie Kreuger films.
Talking of Halloween, John Gavin plays a character called Sam Loomis. Was this the inspiration for the Donald Pleasance character in the Halloween franchise?
There are elements of cross dressing, taxidermy, murder, theft of $40,000.
A classic film that doesn't take two and a half hours to tell the story.
Hitchcock delivers again.