Psycho
15 109 mins
15 109 mins
Janet Leigh’s Marion, on the run after committing a robbery, arrives at the Bates Motel to hide out after a brush with the police. She doesn’t expect to meet the charming, if a little peculiar, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), whose domineering mother looms over them from her Gothic house perched above the motel. Things grow only stranger from there, as an unexpected and grizzly murder leads to the unravelling of a gruesome mystery with an iconic final twist. Eternally referenced and beloved even sixty years on, Hitchcock’s Psycho – and its infamous ‘shower scene’ – remains a stand-out of its genre, with Bernard Herrman's famed all-strings score providing some of the most famous music in cinema history.