“The picture you MUST see from the beginning… Or not at all!… For no one will be seated after the start of… Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest shocker Psycho.” ~Psycho (1960)

IMDB Summary: A Phoenix secretary steals $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.

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 96%

Why I love it: Because it’s Psycho. It’s creepy, it takes it’s time and after all these years it’s still more than a little disturbing.

I love Alfred Hitchcock movies. I love Hitchcock women. They’re blonde, they’re fancy and they’re invariably and often fatally flawed. According to one article titled “What is wrong with Hitchcock’s Women” in The Guardian, “the chief skill of the Hitchcock heroine is to lie, inflict and then suffer untold torments without ruffling her hem.” I missed my calling.