The film Psycho is a 60s horror film directed by Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. The film is based on the screenplay and was adapted from a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The novel was loosely inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin murderer and grave robber Ed Gein who lived just very close to Bloch.

The thing about the Bates Motel is that it seems very normal at first, just a side of the highway sort of road stop. PLOT and SPOILER ALERT : Marion Crane (an office worker) (Leigh) is fed up She has to meet her lover Sam (Gavin) in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank to a large sum of money by her employer. Seeing this as an opportunity to take the money and start a fresh new life, Marion leaves town and heads toward California. After a  long drive Marion becomes tired and caught in a nasty storm, she pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman Bates who is dominated by his mother.

The mother is the creepiest part of the whole movie. The psycho mother costume is simple which makes it even more scary. The Bates motel set is still up in California.