Psycho (1960)
Psycho will rid you of any ideas that old movies are stodgy and dull. From the beginning, Janet Leigh’s Marion Crane is a good girl gone bad, stealing from her boozy boss to flee across the Arizona desert to the arms of her deadbeat boyfriend. It’s juicy as hell even before she meets the psycho of the title.
Yes, the expository ending is a letdown, but consider that Psycho came out when most people didn’t know what a psycho was. Psycho made sure they didn’t forget.
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