Monday, October 26, 2009

Psycho

Psycho is a suspence/horror created in 1960 and is about a women named Marion Crane who is a Phoenix, Arizona secretary fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, who is already married to another women. One Friday Marion's boss asked her to take $40,000 in cash to a bank for deposit. Desperate to make a change in her life, she steals the money and leaves town, determined to start a new life with Sam in California. As night falls and a rain storm drives her off the road so Marion turns off the main highway. When she wakes up she wakes up by a officer she is followed to a car dealership by the officer so she pays $700 cash for a new car. Exhausted from the long drive and the stress of her criminal act, she decides to spend the night at the desolate Bates Motel. The motel is run by Norman Bates, a peculiar young man dominated by his invalid mother. After Norman fixes her a light dinner, Marion goes back to her room for a shower and she ends up dying by Norman Bates mother. Then Norman finds his mom bloody in her room so he runs down to check on Marion and finds her dead in the shower so he dumps her with her bags and, her car into the lake behind the hotel. So Marion is reported missing by her sister. A private detective goes on a hunt looking for her and he goes to the hotel and questions Norman. Then he asks to question his mother but Norman didn't want him to. The detective sneaks up too the house and is killed by the mother by being stabbed in the head. Vera (Marion's sister) and Loomis go to the hotel because they think the detective got a lead on the investigation. So they check in the hotel and snoop around and, Vera went to the house and finds the mother's skeleton and Norman runs up there and tries to kill Vera but Loomis stops him and calls the cops. Come too find out Norman is a psychological killer who killed his mom and boyfriend because she paid more attention to her boyfriend. So he learned to talk like his mom and acted like her. This movie was good/great and crazy.



Anthony Perkins ... Norman Bates

Vera Miles ... Lila Crane

John Gavin ... Sam Loomis

Martin Balsam ... Milton Arbogast

John McIntire ... Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers

Simon Oakland ... Dr. Fred Richmond

Vaughn Taylor ... George Lowery

Frank Albertson ... Tom Cassidy

Lurene Tuttle ... Mrs. Chambers

Patricia Hitchcock ... Caroline (as Pat Hitchcock)

John Anderson ... California Charlie

Mort Mills ... Highway Patrol Officer

Janet Leigh ... Marion Crane

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