Psycho

With the infamous shower scene, “Psycho” has to be the best movie of all time. Considered as Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest film, “Psycho” stars Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, and John Gavin. It was released in 1960 and was adapted from Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel, Psycho, which was based a Wisconsin serial killer, Ed Gein.

Marion Crane (Leigh) is a secretary who is running away with $40,000 that she stole from her employer. On her way to California to see her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (Gavin), Crane stops at a Motel that seems to be hiding from the world. There she meets Norman Bates (Perkins). Bates is a lonely man who supposedly lives with his controlling mother.

The highlight of this mysterious thriller is the shower scene. In this scene, Crane decides to go back and return the money. She gets in the shower to clean herself when Bates’s mother comes in and continually stabs Crane.

To hide his mother’s crime, Bates cleans up the mess and hides Crane’s body in her car and dumps the car in a swap. Worried about her missing sister, Lila Crane visits and persuades Sam Loomis into helping her find Marion.
The film ends with a twist that leaves a person asking, “What just happened?”

In 1998, there was a remake starring Anne Hache as Marion Crane, Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates, and Julianne Moore as Lila Crane. It is a horrible remake. The movie is trying to hard to resemble the original. Know one can remake a Hitchcock film, they can try but they will most likely fail.

The film is available at Netflix.