Psycho (1960)
04/08/1960 (GB)
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
1h 49m
- 84% (10422 votes)
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A new and altogether different screen excitement!
Overview
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
- Alfred HitchcockDirector
- Joseph StefanoScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$806,947
Revenue
$50,048,065
Keywords
- hotel
- clerk
- detective
- shower
- arizona
- motel
- halloween
- stolen money
- alter ego
- taxidermy
- money
- murder
- secretary
- serial killer
- slasher
- psychological thriller
- black and white
- corpse
- murderer
- theft
- overbearing mother
- stabbing
- mental illness
- private detective
- missing person
- split personality
- psycho
- voyeurism
- voyeur
- oedipus complex
- double identity
- abusive mother
- dual personality
- proto-slasher
- multiple personality disorder
- mother son relationship
- birds
- anxious
- dramatic
- motel owner
- woman on the run
- corruptibility
- confused identities
- human vulnerabilities
- gloomy
- man with female alter ego
Top Billed Cast
Anthony Perkins
Norman Bates
Janet Leigh
Marion Crane
Vera Miles
Lila Crane
John Gavin
Sam Loomis
Martin Balsam
Private Det. Milton Arbogast
John McIntire
Sheriff Al Chambers
Simon Oakland
Dr. Fred Richman
Frank Albertson
Tom Cassidy
Patricia Hitchcock
Caroline
Vaughn Taylor
George Lowery
Recommendations
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The Birds (75%)
Vertigo (82%)
Psycho II (65%)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (84%)
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Psycho (51%)
Fight Club (84%)
