By the time Alfred Hitchcock presented Psycho in 1960, he had already thrilled Hollywood with films like Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo, and North by Northwest. All were films, by the way, that could have easily been included in this Top 10 Classic Movies that everyone should see at least once list.
For Psycho, Hitchcock took the script written by Joseph Stefano, from a 1959 novel of the same name written by horror scribe Robert Bloch, and did something not seen too many times in film, especially at that time. He took the supposed main character and killed her early on, in a scene that opened eyes and closed them at the same time.
Janet Leigh starred as Marion Crane, a young lady who sees an opportunity to help her boyfriend out of financial difficulties so they can marry and steals $40,000 she was supposed to deposit in the bank.
Now on the run, Crane finds herself at the Bates Motel, where Norman Bates (brilliantly played here by Anthony Perkins), checks her in before she checks out permanently. Psycho is noted for one of the most famous scenes ever to be filmed – the shower scene – a brutal dance of steel and flesh that even today is fear-inducing.
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