"A boys best friend is his mother." Norman bates says this about his relationship with his mother. I find this quote to be one of the best ones and most ironic in the film. He uses it when we still believe his mother is alive, so you decide that he must have a strong relationship with his mother. (of course you don't know that his mother has been dead for years at this point) I gave this movie a 3 out of 5. It had a lot of good parts but it seemed kind of slow pace for my taste. Granted it is an older film so you need to keep that in mind when you are watching it. I liked that it was suspenseful at the right times and the music picked up when you knew that the scary or good parts were coming.
Psycho is a 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film, based on a novel written by Robert Bloch. The book was inspired by a Wisconsin serial killer by the name of Ed Gein. The movie is about a secretary at a real estate office that steals money from her employer Mr.Lowery. After stealing this money from her employer she runs off to pursue her relationship with Sam, who she wants to marry. She ends up stopping to rest at the Bates Motel because its storming out. She meets the Motel owner Norman Bates and starts a conversation with him later after getting settled into her room. From this conversation she learns that Norman lives with his mother in the house on the hill. She soon decides to go to her room and take and shower and rest because she has a long drive in the morning. When in the shower she is murdered by someone who looks like a lady. Her sister soon becomes worried after hearing she ran off to be with Sam, so she goes to find Sam and they set out looking for Marion after discovering she never showed up at Sams. They get the police involved but there no real help, so they take it into there own hands and go to the motel themselves. When they go there they discover a skeleton int eh basement thats supposedly Normans mother and they end up catching Norman when he catches them in the basement. At the end of the movie you find out that Norman has been dressing up as his mother to and killing people.
I believe that Psycho was the start of the scary movie genre. Because Alfred Hitchcock really set the standards high for anyone that came after him and wanted to make a scary film. "Mother, uh-uh Mother, what is the Phrase? She isn't quite herself today." This quote is my second favorite quote in the movie, because it is a great for shadower and really helps you to try and figure out the movie and put the clues together.
