Look at the movie as a whole

Rating: 2/10 (13 December 1998)

Okay, I'll agree that the shower scene is one of the scariest in movie history. Hitchcock did an amazing job with that. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie doesn't measure up. The scary start whimpers away into a movie of confusion that can only be described as creepy at best, dull at worst. It's a classic, but that doesn't mean it's good.