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The mac-daddy of all slashers and the one that spawned hundreds of badly made rip-offs. As well as about 10 truly great ones, but who's counting!? Quiet, mild-mannered Norman Bates lives with his mother and runs a shoddy motel. Janet Lee turns up and ends up being butchered in the shower seemingly by Norman's mother. Visually stunning, brilliantly acted by Anthony Perkins and non-stop tension, tension, tension. Does this mean that Alfred Hitchcock should be blamed for the awful genre (that we all know all and love) of slasher movies? Oh dear! A masterpiece and the definetive film that created classics such as Halloween.