Psycho
A boy's best friend is his mother.
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.
- Year: 1960
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
- Studio: Shamley Productions
- Keyword: 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, nervous, double identity, abusive mother, dual personality, proto-slasher, multiple personality disorder, mother son relationship, birds, motel owner, woman on the run, corruptibility, confused identities, human vulnerabilities, baffled, man with female alter ego
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
