When Marion Crane steals some money from her workplace and takes flight for California, she little realises the consequences of checking into the Bates Motel... One of Hitchcock’s greatest achievements, Psycho combines suspense, Gothic horror, dark humour and rich ironies to dazzling effect. Leigh and Perkins turn in pitch-perfect performances, while Bernard Herrmann’s score is memorably eloquent and atmospheric.

“A Hollywood movie that breaks rules from the first scene but exists entirely to entertain. Give the audience what they don’t know they want.” Ben Roberts

“The film that set me on the path to reading about cinema, thinking about it in ways I had never done before.” Jai arjun Singh

“One of Hitchcock’s most intriguing films, Psycho is a double portrait of a young woman on the run and a disturbed young man whose sexual impulses turn into murderous ones. The shower scene immediately comes to mind: the editing, the knife, the music, the lifeless eye of the heroine, the blood mixing with the water. It’s a truly terrifying sequence, even today.” Ava Cahen

Film	Year	Director
Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock
HANYO	1960	Kim Ki-young
Rocco E I Suoi Fratelli	1960	Luchino Visconti
FUKUSHÛ SURU WA WARE NI ARI	1979	Shohei Imamura
Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese
A City of Sadness	1989	Hou Hsiao-Hsien
CURE	1998	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Zodiac	2007	David Fincher
Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	George Miller
Lazzaro felice	2018	Alice Rohrwacher

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