Summary: On the run with a stolen $40, 000, Marion Crane decides to seek rest at the Bates Motel, only to find the hotel owner, Norman Bates and his elderly mother an all too uncomfortable presence. Employing a number of narrative devices and unusual editing techniques for a Hollywood film, Psycho is perhaps Hitchcock’s most adored works and one of the most analysed and debated films in the history of American cinema. From it’s film noir inspired cinematography, Gothic horror influenced set design, brutal murder scene, Bernard Herrmann’s screeching violins and shock ending - Psycho defined and set the standard of the Horror film genre, becoming an unforgettable classic. Analysis: “Of all the scenes in the film, the one on which he spent the most time – an entire week- was the now famous shower murder. Although it would last less than a minute on screen, the sequence required dozens of shots – of the shower head, of Leigh screaming, of a shadowy killer with a plunging knife, of bl...