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Psychological horror with the same slow-burn dread and character focus.
Overall7.8
Fear5.0
Atmos7.8
Gore1.0
Psychological
Psycho
1960 · R · 1h 49m
Curator Score9.0/ 10
A secretary takes the money and runs, and stops at a motel off the highway. Almost every slasher you have seen is downstream of what happens there. It was frightening in 1960 because there was no precedent for it, and you have since seen everything that copied it.
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- In theaters
- June 22, 1960
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Curator Certificate
9.0
Out of ten
Passed by one curator
Fear3.0
Gore1.0
Atmosphere7.0
Intensity6.0
Leans into atmosphere, light on gore.
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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.
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mysteryhorrorcrimethriller
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Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates · Janet Leigh as Marion Crane · Vera Miles as Lila Crane · John Gavin as Sam Loomis · Martin Balsam as Milton Arbogast · John McIntire as Al Chambers · Simon Oakland as Fred Richman · Frank Albertson as Tom Cassidy
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Shamley Productions
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