He Wouldn't Even Hurt A Fly

Rating: 9/10 (8 May 2019)

Hitchcock's best film. A masterpiece of it's genre. Excellent direction, screenplay, cinematography, score and acting. The plot revolves around a secretary who steals are large sum of money and hits the road on the lamb. She avoids police by taking back roads which lands her at the run down Bates Motel. Once there she encounters the curiously weird proprietor Norman. From that point the thrills and chills begin. The plot is chilling, creepy, dark, horrific and has a one of a kind fantastic twist ending. The film has many creepy scenes and the shower scene is still spine tingling and timeless. Anthony Perkin's stare and monologue at the end of the film is ingrained in my memory decades after I first started back into it. Both remain two of the most horrific moments ever captured on film. This is a masterful work of art and still evokes screams and terrible dreams from first time viewers. It remains one of the very best films ever in it's genre.