PSYCHO!

Today's blog is going to be about a very famous horror movie/book from 1959-1960. This movie (if for some reason you don't read the title) is called Psycho. This is arguably Alfred Hitchcock's best work and everyone has heard of it. If you don't know what Psycho is, you probably know one scene from it: The Shower Scene! You know, the figure comes up, opens the curtain, violin music plays, the murderer stabs the woman with a butcher knife and she dies. In the book it is a little nastier, ATTENTION! THIS SENTENCE IS NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SENTENCE IN THE WORLD. In the book, the woman gets her head chopped of, nasty I know. Anyway, if you only know the shower scene part about it, here is a small summary of it. Keep reading for the regular summary and skip to the next paragraph for a non spoiler version. Okay, if you are still reading, you don't care about spoilers. Well, it starts with a woman named Mary, she works at a real estate office (I think.) Then a man comes in and wants to buy a house with 40,000 dollars in cash, which he does. The head of the office says to drop it off at the bank to Mary. She steals the money and leaves town, while driving she goes off course to Bates Motel. The head of which is Norman Bates who is an awkward man who still lives with his mother in a house up the hill to the motel. Mary ends up having dinner with Norman, finds out that his mother is pretty insane from him, and basically they just talk. Mary goes back to her room, takes a shower, and gets killed in the shower by someone with an old looking face. Then she is declared missing and a thief. Private detective Arbogast goes looking for her, ends up getting killed by "Mother" again. Norman then hides his mother in the fruit cellar where nobody will look. Then Mary's boyfriend, Sam, and sister, Lila, go looking for her. Long story short Lila hides in the house when looking for evidence. Sees "Mother" and she is a skeleton! WE GOT TWISTS. Then Norman comes down into the fruit cellar dressed as his mother and is about to kill Lila when Sam comes down and stops him. To increase suspense, I will not explain why that happened. >:D



If you are reading this, you do care about spoilers. Psycho is basically about a woman named Mary who does something illegal and runs away to Bates Motel where Norman Bates and his mother live. There is an amazing and well known twist at the end. So yeah that is basically what it is about.



By now you should have read one of the summaries or have already seen/read it. To finalize this blog, you should definitely check out Psycho. (The book is so much better and creepier!) Finally, if you want to watch some clips from Psycho, click here. BYE!