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Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2012)

Probably Alfred Hitchcock's most famous and recognised movie. Personally I can't find an explanation for its ratings, it probably lies in its originality, mostly concerning when it was made. Psycho portrays a story of this woman from Pheonix, Lila Crane (Vera Miless) who stole 40000$ from one client and runs away. She draws the attention from the police, so she decides to change cars and drives by night until she gets lost and finds a motel. She checks in in that motel, with a very peculiar keeper, Norman (Anthony Perkins), who revealed a very cool personality, indifferent to current paradigms, who lived with her very annoying mother, increasingly senile. Anyway, somebody enters her bathroom when she was in the shower and stabs her several times, presumably the insane mother. The missing money causes discomfort back in Pheonix and when her client finds out she's also missing he hires a private detective to look for her. He eventually gets to the Motel, but he is kileef as well, this time inside Normans' house, suspecting he'd be hiding Mrs Crane. Then, it's time for her boyfriend and sister to look for her. It's a fine movie. Very old school, no one dares to make such a bizarre movie nowadays. Probably inaccurate concerning the psychopathology involved, naturally to help the twist, which is perhaps spectacular but definitely repeated and copied too frequently over the years turning it predictable. It arouses quite a curiosity on Vera Miles as we're used to watch her in Westerns, a lot less demanding though emotionally richer. There's probably a lot of subjectivity or taste interfering with my rating, but when it comes to art, taste comes before justification. 6/10