The film Psycho which was created in the summer of 1960 by a famous man called Alfred Hitchcock.

As marions showers we see a figure through the foggy shower curtain approach, the figure pulls back the curtain and begins to stab Marion with a very large chef’s knife until Marion falls. As Marion falls to the ground the figure is shown as an old lady who then ran off. The sound that is played during the scene is violins which make screeching sounds to frighten the audience; marions screaming is very loud and high pitched and seems to give the effect that it is echoing. This scene is very unusual as the main character has been killed off very early in the film. After Marion was killed by the old lady Norman bates comes along and disposes the body in the boot of the car where he then dumped it in the mud swamp around the back of the motel.

After the death of Marion and the strange disposal of her body, the film slips into normality for a bit to give the audience a chance to recover their shock. Marion’s sister Lila Crane and private detective Milton Arbogast show up in town looking for Marion and the stolen money. Arbogast goes out to the Bates Motel to try to trace Marion and runs into of Norman.  When he meets Norman he notices a very strange personality and strangeness Arbogast asks more precise questions into his inquiry .Arbogast finds that Norman is very suspicious and decides to look deeper, and sneaks into the Bates house to speak to Mrs. Bates. When he arrives at the bates house the door is already open and he walks in and up the stairs and meets the very strange old lady who then pulls out a knife and kills the detective. He then also disposes his car in the muddy swamp around the back of the motel.

The final shock of the film occurs when Lila and Sam go back to the Bates Motel and Lila sneaks up to the house to see Mrs. Bates. Norman realizes that something is wrong and knocks Sam over the head and runs up to the house while Lila sneaks down into the fruit cellar. We get the shocking reveal about the nature of Mrs. Bates and the killer. Lila is scared by the desiccated corpse that she finds and is terrified when the killer shows up in the doorway and the film wraps up very quickly. The notable thing about this scene is the way that Hitchcock used light and shadow in this scene with the expertise of the best black and white film directors. The swinging light bulb gives the scene a surreal quality, even making the mummy seem to blink. Like the killing of Arbogast and the shower sequence, this scene is brief, but seems much longer.

As the film comes to an end Norman bates is arrested as his hidden identity is revealed. Norman bates was a transvestite and was taken to the police station where he was questioned. Being a transvestite in America in the 1960 was very unusual and was not often heard of so people found the ending of the film amazing and it led them to tell others about the film, this is what made the film psycho a very famous film and made Alfred Hitchcock a very rich man.