Psycho (1960)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother. hotel, clerk, shower, arizona, motel, halloween, stolen money, taxidermy, money, secretary, whodunit, corpse, murderer, theft, mental illness, private detective, missing person, psycho, voyeurism, voyeur, oedipus complex, double identity, proto-slasher, mother son relationship, birds, anxious, dramatic, woman on the run, corruptibility, confused identities, human vulnerabilities