Explaining Film on Instagram: "Psycho (1960) is Alfred Hitchcock’s groundbreaking black-and-white psychological thriller that permanently changed horror cinema. It begins with Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a desperate office worker who impulsively steals $40,000 and flees to a remote California motel run by the shy, bird-loving Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his domineering, unseen mother. What starts as a tense crime story abruptly pivots into something far darker and more disturbing. Shot on