Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 world renowned horror masterpiece. Now it may seem like a low budget played out story, but at the time it was almost reminiscent to The Conjuring. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Janet Leigh. The film contains many conventions of a thriller such as low key lighting, quick cuts, tension music and the whole film is shot in black and white. 
Janet Leigh's character is an interesting one as we see different sides to her. In the film we sees different buildings in Arizona in broad daylight. We then see one building where someone shuts the curtains. This will immediately intrigue the audience as they would wonder why a curtain would be shut in broad daylight. This is when we are introduced to main character, Marion Crane, a real estate secretary, (pictured) and her boyfriend; Sam Loomis. They are worried as they want to get married but due to Sam's debts, cannot. After lunch that day, a client drops off $40,000 (the equivalent of approximately over $830,000 now) and her boss asks her to deposit the money to the bank. She then asks the take the afternoon off. This immediately strikes the audience simply due to her facial expressions when the quantity of the money was revealed. In an act of desperation we see a shy, humble girl turn into a sly thief as she takes the money and instead of going to the bank, plan to run away with it in order to begin a new life with Sam. On her way we see that she is visibly guilt ridden and self conscious about the fact she stole the money especially when a police officer questions her and follows her. This cumulates into her trading her car for a new one in order to escape him. Taking a wrong turn (no pun intended) she ends up at the Bates Motel. This is where she gets killed.
