I'd Kill That Fly If I Were You (No Spoiler, the Killer is Revealed Early in the Film)

Rating: 6/10 (8 September 2001)

The plot is simple, Marion Crane steals a large sum of money from a client for the bank she works at. She fleas from her unsatisfying job with a cop on her tail, trades in her car, and ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time. The Bates Motel, where 12 cabins are 12 vacancies, owner and operator of the motel (the infamous character Norman Bates) dresses up like his dead mother and slices Marion up in the shower. The whole situation gets quite messy as Norman is investigated by a private detective and suspected of killing Marion for the large sum of money he didn't know she had.

Okay, sure this movie is a huge critical and box-office success. Sure, it's compared to every single other movie in the slasher genre. Sure, it's even responsible for creating the sub-genre as a whole. But, in my opinion, this movie is too long and actually boring as it slowly draws toward it's conclusion. And when you think about it, performance-wise Anthony Perkins is incredible but the rest of the cast is only satisfactory. What does this movie have that really makes it different from other thrillers of the time?