The tension slowly builds as a woman, lost on the highways with stolen money, pulls into a desolate motel in the middle of the desert. Alfred Hitchcock, in the shadows of black-and-white imagery, leaves the viewer face-to-face with Norman Bates and his bizarre world. This cornerstone of the psychological thriller genre reveals the dark secrets hidden behind ordinary rooms and the fragile layers of the human mind. That sense of unease seeping from the motel room lingers in the mind long after the film has ended.