Psycho

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Psycho (1960)

Even if you know it's coming — and who, half a century after the movie hit theaters, would not know it's coming — the pivotal shower scene still shocks. Brilliantly directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who does more with a small trickle of black-and-white blood than most directors can manage with full-color buckets of it, the sudden, terrifying death of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) will stick you right where you're most vulnerable. After watching, who can stand naked and alone, with shampoo dribbling into your eyes, and not feel like Norman Bates might be lurking on the other side of the curtain? It's enough to make Bernard Herrmann's shrieking score haunt your dreams.

In Psycho, a young man murders unsuspecting travelers in his mysterious motel

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