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The threat of Norman Bates is not that he had supernatural powers, but that he was so normal he could be waiting for you, undetected, at the next rest stop…

Psycho (1960) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Plot summary : A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

It is a double portrait of a young woman on the run and of a disturbed young man whose sexual impulses turn into murderous ones. Of course, the shower scene immediately comes to mind: the editing, the knife, the music, the lifeless eye of the heroine, the blood mixing with the water. It's a truly terrifying sequence, even today.

I watched it three times in one day. In the third screening I was laughing.

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