Psycho
Part of the special series NACHTBLENDE
Nachtblende: CREEPY PEEKS
Alfred Hitchcock ushered in the modern horror film with PSYCHO, deceiving audiences like no one before and staging the most iconic murder scene in film history. And incidentally, he not only accused his antagonist Norman Bates of voyeurism, but also his audience. An important film that closes the CREEPY PEEKS with a blood-splattering bang.
Marion (Janet Leigh) seizes the moment and runs away from work with 40,000 dollars. She leaves behind her life of poverty and an affair for which she has to give up her lunch. On a rainy night, she stays in an unknown motel in the middle of nowhere. The young owner and hobby taxidermist Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) seems to have a complicated relationship with his mother and this mother seems to have something against women travelling alone ...