Psycho (1960)

Cast

Janet Leigh
as Marion Crane
Alfred Hitchcock
as Man Outside Real Estate Office
Anthony Perkins
as Norman Bates
Vera Miles
as Lila Crane

Get more information about Psycho (1960) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Action Horror Mystery Thriller

8.5 / 10

Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

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Comments on this trailer
Comments may include spoiler!

yanndick

He spoiled in the trailer she is killed in the shower ?? I can't believe it ! - @Thursday, September 27, 2018 11:16 PM

Michael Stern

I remember this trailer playing on the Z Channel. I miss the Z Channel. - @Monday, July 9, 2018 2:19 PM

Geoff Shaw

This trailer is almost as chilling as the movie,building lighthearted suspense,until Hitch enters cabin no.1. and- - @Saturday, July 7, 2018 11:32 AM

ArseneWenger

Did miles wear a wig in the actual film? - @Friday, January 19, 2018 1:44 PM

Tanner Loomis

Hitch was a serial sexual psycho himself. A pig. - @Friday, November 17, 2017 7:08 PM

Charles Moran

Maybe someone said it already further down in the comments, but Landis or anybody else has said anything about the final shot. The woman screaming in the shower? It's NOT Janet Leigh. Take a closer look - it's Vera Miles. That was another little trick of Hitch's to throw the audience off. The thing is that I don't know anybody who ever saw this trailer BEFORE the movie came out. I sure hope it was used for it's re-releases. I think it's a great trailer - but it DOES give too much away. - @Saturday, August 5, 2017 9:07 PM

Jay Quintana

These videos are wonderful. Landis appears to have an encyclopedic knowledge of movies. And his enthusiasm for them is obvious. - @Friday, April 14, 2017 12:15 AM

deadpan80

you can just tell Hitch is having the time of his life making the trailer - great stuff - @Sunday, April 9, 2017 1:32 AM

Anthony Smith

A modern American Classic. This would make a great double bill with Hitchcocked about during the making of this film. The first time you see a toilet was actually Disney's The Shaggy Dog in 1959. Anthony Perkins steals the picture, but sadly became typecast after this film. Other great films by mr. Perkins include Catch-22, The Trial, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, and The Black Hole. One more thing the famous shower stabbing scene was made at the same stage as The 1925 film version of The Phantom Of The Opera. - @Monday, January 30, 2017 4:58 AM

tourbillon

If Hitchcock really drank a whole bottle of red wine everyday. He must have thought the world was a shitty place. - @Friday, December 16, 2016 9:55 PM

Valkyrie Ziege

; The trailer is better then the motion-picture. - @Sunday, November 13, 2016 3:20 AM

Kenny Tagami

psycho is a good movie - @Saturday, October 1, 2016 11:28 PM

Andrew Brendan

In the early 60's just showing a toilet or part of a toilet was unusual. I saw "Psycho" in the early 80's at Whittenberger Auditorium. The screaming was somethin else---and that was from the audience! People were shouting "Run! Run!" and yelling at Vera Miles not to go into the basement. Well, she did go down there and there was a lot more screaming and it wasn't just Vera! - @Friday, July 22, 2016 2:41 AM

Mike Vaughn

wait how could it "Psycho" inspire"Peeping Tom" when they came out at the same year? In different countries? also it was released in 1960 not 62... - @Tuesday, July 5, 2016 3:24 PM

Alex Di Lolli

Not a word about Bernard Herrmann?! As good as Psycho was, Herrmann music made that movie (same thing can be said about Vertigo). Without his music these two films would be meaningless. - @Friday, October 30, 2015 4:13 PM

RedTango

This was also the first movie to ever show a toilet. - @Tuesday, September 22, 2015 2:45 AM

Samuel Oldham

I cannot praise this film enough. I saw it when I was seven and it warped my mind. This after I swore to myself never to see another film by this man after Vertigo. Bernard Herrmann is the greatest. - @Sunday, September 6, 2015 7:15 AM

alexalex13131

Someone pointed out that Janet Leigh took a pass on this trailer (I suppose she had it with showers) so Hitch recruited his second leading lady, Vera Miles, for the job. - @Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:55 PM

Aura Hyel

Bernard Herrmann's strings-only music score saved 'Psycho'. - @Friday, December 19, 2014 2:36 AM

Warp Prime 42

I read Robert Bloch's novellette where the character of Miriam (Mary in story) is decapitated in the shower scene. I assumed this was too gruesome for audiences in those days. Norman Bates was a middle age bald fat man not a young man. - @Saturday, October 4, 2014 9:21 AM

Pimps and Pandas

Great music cues from Psycho--totally unforgettable. - @Tuesday, August 5, 2014 12:41 AM

Brando

I love Hitchcock but I never was a fan of Psycho. Other than the great cutting job for the shower scene so the censors of the day would approve the release I find the movie boring. I'm glad it saved Hitchcock's career but he made soooooooo many better movies for both the screen and TV. - @Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:36 AM

Daniel Rosa

Why are Trailers from Hell not better known? - @Friday, November 8, 2013 8:42 PM

Jamie Somerville

- @Friday, November 8, 2013 1:56 PM

Valkyrie Ziege

; 'Peeping Tom' was a better motion-picture. - @Friday, November 8, 2013 4:30 AM