"He began to think and speak for her...at times he could be both personalities,  

          and at other times the mother half took over completely"

Marianne Crane had worked for employer as an estate agent for over ten years, yet the presence of a rich businessman and $40,000, which she finds in her possession, is all too much. No sooner does her boss send her to the bank than she feigns sickness, packs a suitcase and sets of with the money. When Monday arrives and she's not at work the boss begins to suspect, as does the businessman, her sister Lila and her boyfriend Sam. Meanwhile Marianne drives through various states, swaps her car along the way, has a run in wit the police and then finds shelter and safety in a motel off the main highway – The Bates Motel.....

When she arrives the motel is empty...with only the weird owner, Norman Bates, and his bedridden mother the only occupants – this is a perfect set up for her. She takes tea with Norman, conceals her money and then takes a shower....but Norman watches her through his little peephole...and then she is killed by someone....but who??? Norman finds the body and has to conceal the evidence, and he does it so convincingly that it seems like he has done this before.

However the wealthy businessman does not want to 'kiss goodbye to $40,000 and so hires a private eye...who follows the trail to the Bates motel. His suspicions lead him to think that Bates is hiding the woman, and when he asks to talk to Bates's mother he is told to leave...yet a private detective doesn't just give up and leave...especially when he calls Marianne's sister to tell her of his suspicions. As the film twists and turns we learn that Bates is more than just an oddball, and that his mother is more than just a bedbound woman....she is something more sinister...creepy and dangerous. This film is tense and creepy, and certainly far better than the sequels it spawned.

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