***1/2

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2017)

Janet Leigh received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination for the secretary who steals money only to make a wrong turn on the highway and wind up at the Bates Motel. Guests generally check in and do check out in the most ghastly manner.
This is an intense psychological thriller with Anthony Perkins stealing the show as the psychotic killer who has also assumed the identity of the mother he murdered 10 years before and her apparent cruelty sticks with him from the deeds he has done.
It does take for picture's end for Simon Oakland, as the detective, to explain what has been going on.
Vera Miles, as her sister, John Gavin, as her lover, and Martin Balsam, the detective who sets out to find her after she is missing, are all in her orbit. That shower scene shall forever be eerie.