A young employee steals forty thousand dollars and flees. Due to bad weather, she decides to stop at a motel run by a young man named Norman, seemingly calm. She takes a room and while she showers, she is attacked by a woman who is barely seen. Shortly afterward, a private investigator, helped by her boyfriend, begins searching for the woman and arrives at the motel where he is suspicious of the young owner's strange behavior. He will soon discover a horrible and tragic truth... The most "horrifying" film by the master of thrills, even criticized by critics at its release for the "crudeness" of some sequences; just to mention the most famous: the corpse of the mother sitting on a swivel chair, the death of the private detective, the unsettling shots of the sinister Bates house and above all the murder under the shower of Janet Leigh, still today absolutely imprinted in the collective imagination to the point that anyone who finds themselves taking a shower behind a transparent curtain cannot help but feel a certain "discomfort". Magisterial the performance of an Anthony Perkins in a state of grace, who gave such an effective portrait of the character of Norman Bates that he became, from that moment on, the most famous "madman" in cinema history, inexorably condemned to never being able to emancipate himself from that role, to the point of practically conditioning his entire future film career. The only adjective suitable to define this work by the great Alfred Hitchcock is "perfect"; a film that does not suffer at all from the weight of the years, crosses history managing to keep its charm intact. Anxious, intriguing, terrifying, beautiful. There is nothing else to add!
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