You could make a fairly solid argument that Hitchcock and Psycho effectively invented the “slasher” genre, to the point where John Carpenter’s Halloween, the film that kicked off the spate of low-budget efforts in the late seventies and eighties, features a character named “Sam Loomis” who must be an homage to the prototypal heroic boyfriend in this film.
If, by some fluke, you know nothing about the film… see it! See it now! We’ll still be here when you get back. After all, Psycho has been so massively influential it’s hard not to know what happens.
However, it has been fifty-two years, so I fear that the statute of limitations on potential spoilers has expired. “Don’t give away the ending - it’s the only one we have!” he pleaded in advertisements. Note: Hitchcock famously guarded the ending to this project. “You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave…”
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