but audiences in 1960 had never seen anything so outwardly horrific as Marion Crane’s stabbing in the shower. And this promotional campaign suggesting Psycho was boundary-pushing worked like ...

Series of American horror films, loosely based on the "Psycho" novels by Robert Bloch, which focuses on the deeply disturbed individuals who operate the Bates Motel.

Psycho premiered in 1960, but decades later, it remains as gripping and rewatchable as any Hitchcock movie. Psycho makes use of music, Janet Leigh's terrified acting, and one of the greatest film ...