
Psycho(1960)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.


“Stalks his wife... his daughter... their lover!”
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

Kerwin Mathews
Paul Farrell

Nadia Gray
Eve Beynat

Donald Houston
Georges

Liliane Brousse
Annette Beynat

George Pastell
Inspector Etienne

Arnold Diamond
Janiello

Norman Bird
Salon
Justine Lord
Grace

Jerold Wells
Giles
Leon Peers
Blanchard
Maniac is a crime, mystery, horror, thriller film released in 1963 exploring themes of painter, psychological thriller, blow torch, proto-slasher. Directed by Michael Carreras, it stars Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston. When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
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