“PSYCHO”
On this day September 8th, 1960, the nationwide release of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”. Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” is a hit horror/thriller film. The film features Janet Leigh, John Gavin, and Anthony Perkins.
A Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) wants to marry her boyfriend Sam Loomis (John Gavin) but she’s broke, Marion steals $40,000 from her employer’s client and plans on running away and marrying Sam. She stops at a run-down motel named the Bates Motel and meets the young and lonely proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) who lives with his overbearing, angry, and controlling mother. Marion basically disappears from the world. Her boyfriend Sam begins to grow worried about his partner and begins to go and search for her; in hopes of finding her alive.
“Stressed and under pressure because of stealing a large amount of money from her employer and running away, a partly poor office worker who’s committed theft in order to be able to marry the man she loves, gets lost and decides to stay at a motel for the night, regretting what she’s done. But on her single night at the motel, she finds out it was a mistake to choose this motel, as she finds its young depressed manager’s mother an unrelenting psycho.”
-J. S. Golden
Marion has no other choice than to go into the motel, considering she’s being hunted down by the police. the motel was a very interesting experience, to say the least.
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