Psycho

When Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) leaves her lover and embezzles $40,000, she heads for the highway and makes a fateful stop along the way. The Bates Motel sits atop its little hill, looking run-down and foreboding, but she doesn't realize there's much more hiding behind its walls. As she lies low, hoping to elude the police, the real danger lurks closer by. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) slowly stalks her as per instructions from his silent mama. Alfred Hitchcock's ultimate masterpiece, Psycho, raised the bar for horror films and has seldom been matched since.