Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates and Janet Leigh as Marion Crane in one of Hitchcocks most famous suspense films. Vera Miles and John Gavin co-star in a story centred on the Bates Motel, a missing woman, murder and the disturbing psychology behind Norman Bates. The film became a landmark of psychological horror, suspense cinema and the Psycho franchise. Från IMDB: A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.