... horror; the centre of this film is based around a secretary, Marion Crane, who embezzles forty thousand dollars cash from her boss's client, Mr Tom Cassidy. Marion flees the town of Phoenix and heads towards the town of Fairvale to find happiness with Sam, during this journey Marion finds herself checking into Bates Motel and becoming a victim of the motels manager Norman ... decision, Marion has put herself into her, "Own private trap" and into the clutches of Norman Bates. Just as Marion decides to rectify herself and drive back to Phoenix she is brutally murdered by Norman. Normans d...

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... made recently in the 1990s. http://galleries.aebn.net/beta2/index.cfm/fa/gallery/genre/GAYTWINKS/clip/0009/refid/AEBN-000794/tid/581/layout/mgp_layout1 Psycho takes place in Phoenix, Arizona and is the story of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and her desperate attempt to save her husband-to-be, Sam Loomis (John Gavin) from debts that are preventing them ... and leaves town without a trace. After a few days on the run, Marion ends up at an isolated motel which plays a major role in the scenes to come. Meanwhile, back in Phoenix, Sam grows worried about Marion after he learns that she has been...

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... wounds. There is blood, but not gallons of it.)Violence is present in only two shocking murder scenes, the first about a third of the way through, and the second when a Phoenix detective is stabbed at the top of a staircase. The remainder of the horror and suspense is created in the mind of the audience, although the tale does include such taboo ... ...

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... and the quick appearance of the credits are to resemble stabbing motions of a knife. Then after the credits have stopped, we see the camera panning across the sky line of Phoenix, then it zooms down to a building and then down to a window, then the camera goes through the crack in the window and into the room. Here we see to people ... ...

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