Psycho

Psycho (1960)
Psycho is an Alfred Hitchcock directed thriller featuring actors Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh and Vera Miles. The film features a woman named Marion Crane, a beautiful blonde. She spends her lunch breaks with her lover Sam, who she finds eloping difficult because of the lack of money they have. During one of her shifts at work, she encounters a client with $40,000, which her boss entrusts her to put in the bank. She takes this as an opportunity to start a new life, so she runs away with the money. immediately her conscious begins to play games with her, as she starts to image conversations between her boss, the client she stole the money from and the police. Whilst on her run, she stops off at the Bates motel where she meets Norman Bates. Norman Bates appears to be slightly odd from the outset as she is very excitable and doesn't sort out her accommodation by the books. She over hears a conversation between him an his mother, and finds out that he is dominated by her character. Whilst speaking with Norman she notices a few odd things life stuffed birds, but over looks it as one of his hobbies. Marion gets comfortable in the hotel, and begins to regret taking the money, so she plans to take it back, she subtracts the amount of money she spent, on a piece of paper which she rips and throws in the bin. She then goes to take a shower, and whilst showering she notices a figure come into the room, and before she knows it the shower curtain is ripped open and a womanly figure is stabbing her. This is seen as a very significant scene in the thriller genre as people had never seen so much a terrifying and violent scene in film before.