
Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks, and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank forty thousand dollars by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off t... (Full plot summary below)
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Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks, and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank forty thousand dollars by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.
Leave your thoughts about Psycho.
| Reno Gazette-JournalForrest HartmanOne of the greatest horror films ever made. |
| VarietyVariety StaffAn unusual, good entertainment, indelibly Hitchcock, and on the right kind of boxoffice beam. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyPsycho, in its dark and sordid extravagance, remains utterly contemporary, in its subject as well as in its production. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeClassic Hitchcock built on two key scenes and one brilliant performance. |
| BBC.comDavid WoodGripping and irrevocably gruesome fare played to perfection by a top notch cast. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe consequence in his denouement falls quite flat for us. But the acting is fair. Mr. Perkins and Miss Leigh perform with verve, and Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam do well enough in other roles. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksAlfred Hitchcock's powerful, complex psychological thriller, Psycho (1960) is the "mother" of all modern horror suspense films - it single-handedly ushered in an era |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanAs a horror film, it is a horrifying study in terror, and as film in general, it is a brilliant study in style and mood, as well as the darkest regions of a person's psyche. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsTed PriggeIt's an amazing thing watching Perkins do his schitck with the role. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePaine KnickerbockerHe has very shrewdly interwoven crime, sex and suspense, blended the real and the unreal in fascinating proportions and punctuated his film with several quick, grisly and unnerving surprises. |