Fresh
Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.
Andrew Sarris, Village Voice
Psycho
A new and altogether different screen excitement!
1960 · 1h 49m · R
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Director and cast
- Alfred Hitchcock Director
- Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates
- Janet Leigh as Marion Crane
- Vera Miles as Lila Crane
- John Gavin as Sam Loomis
- Martin Balsam as Det. Milton Arbogast
- John McIntire as Sheriff Al Chambers
- Simon Oakland as Dr. Fred Richman
- Frank Albertson as Tom Cassidy
- Patricia Hitchcock as Caroline (as Pat Hitchcock)
- Vaughn Taylor Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The best that can be said is there are bats in the belfry and a well-preserved corpse in the basement. What else can one do but scream?
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
Fresh
It blazed a bloody trail for the much-loved slasher cycle, but it also assured us that a B-movie could be A-grade in quality and innovation.
David Jenkins, Time Out
Fresh
An unusual, good entertainment, indelibly Hitchcock, and on the right kind of boxoffice beam.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece blends a brutal manipulation of audience identification and an incredibly dense, allusive visual style to create the most morally unsettling film ever made.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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