By the time Universal Pictures released Psycho in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already one of the most famous directors in Hollywood, and a household name.

they interrupt the chilling moment Antony Perkinsâ Norman Bates stares directly into the camera, and the subsequent footage of Marion Craneâ s car being pulled out a filthy lake.

On the way to see her boyfriend, she stops off by an old motel, run by the odd Norman Bates. She is murdered in the shower. Her sister, boyfriend, and a private investigator try to find out where ...