Classic horror

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2012)

A secretary steals $40,000 from her employer and during her escape she stops at the Bates Motel to hide out; big mistake as the proprietor is the one and only Norman Bates(Anthony Perkins), a real oddball who tells the girl, Marion(Janet Leigh) that he gets very few customers and that he lives with mother who lives upstairs. He invites her to dinner and she overhears him arguing with her over the proposed date. Mom is the ultimate control freak and she warn him about the evil ways of women. What follows may be the most famous shower scene in the history of cinema, so there is no need to describe it here, as no one since as been able to improve on Alfred Hitchcock's subtle way of making the viewer actually use their own imagination. A standard detective drama follows with Marion's sister Lila(Vera Miles) pairing up with private eye Milton Arbogast(Martin Balsam) to find her missing sibling. Norman turns out to be a severely disturbed individual with an extremely strange secret. If you haven't yet seen the 1960 version of Psycho, see it and marvel at the work of a master director.