Després d'haver-se apropiat de 400.000 dòlars que no li pertanyen, Marion Crane agafa el cotxe i fuig carretera enllà amb els diners. En fer-se de nit, troba el Motel Bats, un tenebrós motel on decideix passar la nit. Marion n'és l'única inquilina, i mentre és a la dutxa, una ombra estranya irromp a l'habitació i la cus a punyalades.
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
La Jordan és una operadora experimentada del número d'emergències 911. Un dia rep una trucada d'una noia que estan a punt de segrestar i que al cap de poc troben morta. La Jordan s'enfonsa i vol deixar la feina. Però, al cap de sis mesos, es veu obligada a atendre la trucada d'una altra noia que acaben de segrestar i que truca des del maleter del cotxe del segrestador. Des del telèfon, la Jordan mirarà de localitzar la noia.
La història d’en Peter Kurken, autor de diversos assassinats a la ciutat de Düsseldorf els anys vint, va servir a Lang per reflectir la descomposició social de la República de Weimar en els preàmbuls de l’arribada del nazisme.
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
Gioia is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia's admirer is a vicious killer! He murders her fellow magazine models one at a time, using a variety of twisted implements of death. Gioia is the lucky recipient of a collection of photos, each with murdered bodies arranged around posters of her.
On Halloween night at a horror theme park, a costumed killer begins slaying innocent patrons who believe that it's all part of the festivities.
After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops who answered their call. He helps them install a security system, begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol angling to pry into the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental asylum, he is released five years later, into the care of his sister, Manuela who, along with their wheelchair bound mother operates a boarding school for young women. Miguel becomes obsessed with one of the girls at the school, and wants to resume his incestuous relationship with his sister.
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a grip on reality.
El Dr. Feinstone és un dentista que ho té tot, una dona que l'estima i una gran carrera. De sobte descobreix que la seva dona té una aventura. Això fa que embogeixi, i comença a torturar els seus pacients.
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, a young woman, Audrey, relocates with her husband, Xander, to his hometown after the death of Xander's father. Immediately, Audrey begins to suspect that there may be more to her father-in-law's death than a simple accident, and Xander's sexy, seductress of a stepmother, Marlena, may hold the key.
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.
Al cim de la seva carrera com a director, Alfred Hitchcock decideix rodar una pel·lícula de terror aparentment de segona categoria. Com que els estudis es neguen a finançar-la, Hitchcock decideix tirar endavant el projecte ell sol. Però no li resultarà gens fàcil, ja que estarà sotmès a una enorme pressió per no excedir-se del pressupost, per superar la censura del codi Hays i, un cop acabada la pel·lícula, per aconseguir fer-ne publicitat sense el suport dels estudis que la distribueixen. A més, la seva vida personal també passarà per moments difícils. El resultat, però, acabarà sent ser una de les pel·lícules de més èxit d'aquest interessant director i una de les més famoses i influents de la història del cinema.
A principis dels anys seixanta, el mestre del suspens va deixar que la protagonista del seu nou rodatge morís quan encara no havien passat quaranta minuts de pel·lícula en una escena que posaria el cinema de cap per avall.
El cinèfil Alexandre O. Philippe dissecciona els 52 plans de "Psicosi", que van representar un cop d'efecte narratiu i un elogi a la brutalitat feta suggeriment.