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Description of this Alfred Hitchcock Psychosis Poster
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on the encounter between Marion Crane (Leigh), a con man on the run, and Norman Bates (Perkins), a shy motel owner, and its consequences. A private detective (Balsam), Sam Loomis (Gavin), Marion's lover, and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.
Psycho was considered a departure from Hitchcock's previous film, La Mort Aux Trousses, as it was filmed on a lower budget in black and white by the crew of his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The film was initially considered controversial and received mixed reviews, but public interest and strong box office results led to a major critical reevaluation. Psycho was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Director for Hitchcock and Best Supporting Actress for Leigh.
Psycho is today considered one of Hitchcock's best films[9] and undoubtedly his most famous work[10]. It has been hailed as a major work of cinematic art by international film critics and scholars due to its skillful direction, tense atmosphere, impressive camerawork, memorable score and his iconic performances. Often ranked among the greatest films of all time, it established a new level of acceptability of violence, deviant behavior, and sexuality in American films,[11] and is widely considered one of the first examples of the horror film genre.
After Hitchcock's death in 1980, Universal Pictures produced sequels: three sequels, a remake, a television spin-off, and a television series set in the 2010s. In 1992, the Library of Congress estimated that the film was "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
During a Friday afternoon date night at a Phoenix hotel, Marion Crane, a real estate secretary, and her boyfriend Sam Loomis discuss their inability to get married because of Sam's debts. Marion returns to work, steals a $40,000 cash payment given to her to deposit, and drives off to Sam's home in Fairvale, California. Marion hastily trades in her car along the way, arousing the suspicions of the dealership and a California Highway Patrol officer.
Marion stops for the night at the Bates Motel, located off the main highway, and hides the stolen money in a newspaper. Owner Norman Bates comes down from a large house overlooking the motel, registers Marion under a false name and invites her to dinner with him. After Norman returns home, Marion overhears Norman arguing with his mother about Marion's presence. Norman returns with a light meal and apologizes for his mother's excesses. Norman discusses his hobby as a taxidermist, his mother's "illness", and how people have a "private trap" they want to escape from. Marion decides to return to Phoenix in the morning to return the stolen money. While Marion is taking a shower, a shadow in a dress appears and stabs her to death. Shortly after, Norman cleans up the murder scene, puts Marion's body, her belongings and the hidden money in his car, and sinks it in a swamp.
Marion's sister Lila arrives in Fairvale a week later, tells Sam about the theft and demands to know her whereabouts. He denies knowing about her disappearance. A private detective named Arbogast approaches them, saying he has been hired to recover the money. Arbogast stops at the Bates Motel and questions Norman, whose nervous behavior and inconsistent answers arouse his suspicions. He examines the guest register and discovers from his writing that Marion spent a night at the motel. When Arbogast learns that Marion has spoken to Norman's mother, he asks to speak to her, but Norman refuses. Arbogast informs Sam and Lila of his search and promises to meet them within the next hour at Sam's house. After entering the Bates house to look for Norman's mother, the shadowy figure emerges from the bedroom and stabbed to death.
Sam goes to the motel with Lila when they don't hear from Arbogast, worried that something has gone wrong. He sees a figure in the house, who he assumes is Norman's mother. Lila and Sam alert the local sheriff, who tells them that Norman's mother died in a murder-suicide, by strychnine poisoning, ten years earlier. The sheriff suggests that Arbogast lied to Sam and Lila so he could go after Marion and the money. Convinced that something has happened to Arbogast, Lila and Sam go to the motel. Sam distracts Norman in the office while Lila sneaks into the house. Suspicious, Norman becomes agitated and knocks Sam unconscious. As he goes into the house, Lila hides in the fruit cellar, where she discovers the mother's mummified body. She screams, and Norman, wearing women's clothing and a wig, enters the cellar and attempts to stab her. Sam appears and overpowers him.
At the police station, a psychiatrist explains that Norman killed his mother and her lover ten years earlier out of jealousy. Unable to bear the guilt, Norman mummified his mother's corpse and began treating her as if she were still alive. He recreated his mother as an alternate personality, as jealous and possessive of Norman as he was of his mother. When Norman is attracted to a woman, "Mother" takes over. He had killed two other missing young women before Marion and Arbogast. The psychiatrist concludes that "Mother" has now overwhelmed Norman's personality. Norman sits in a prison cell and hears his mother say that the murders were his doing. Marion's car is found in the swamp.
