A 1960 American horror thriller about a secretary on the run who stops at an isolated motel run by a disturbed young man and his mother.
Production
Alfred Hitchcock financed the film independently and shot it in black and white with his television crew to keep costs near $800,000. Anthony Perkins played Norman Bates and Janet Leigh starred as Marion Crane, the protagonist killed off in the first act.
Reception
Paramount distributed the film in summer 1960, where it earned $50 million globally and became Hitchcock’s most profitable picture. Critics were divided at release but quickly came to recognize its formal audacity.
Legacy
The shower sequence, scored by Bernard Herrmann’s slashing strings, is among the most analyzed scenes in cinema. The film effectively created the slasher subgenre and reset audience expectations about a star’s survival.
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