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Comparison of Psycho and The Usual Suspects Psycho opens up with the caption “Phoenix, Arizona… Friday, December the Eleventh… Two Forty Three PM.” In this specific time and location lend the film a truth. The title credits appear and are slashed apart; this corresponds with the film as its murders are performed with a slashing butcher knife. Alfred Hitchcock directed psycho. The movie was a bit shocking and viewers never knew what was in store. The murder of Marion, who was the apparent heroine, occurred within the first hour of the movie. Hitchcock treated Marion and Norman as if they would be developed into the entire movie. Norman Bates seems to be a nervous and harmless person, although his spying on Marion as she strips and his fascination with death. His personality is divided between himself and his mother’s. Marion arouses part of Norman as well as repulses him. However, in mother, murder reinforces her relationship with her son. To Norman the murders are his most intimate sexual exchanges. At the time of its release, in the 1960’s, the movie was a courageous and explicit film, dealing with brutal murder and risqué sexual situations. The