It's been sixty years since Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' hit the screens

The best horror of all time was released in 1960, and it changed cinema forever, says Chris Wasser

Marion Crane (Leigh), wearing only a brassiere and a skirt, swaps fantasies with her divorced lover, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), following a lunchtime tryst in a sleazy, Phoenix hotel room.

“It is required that you see Psycho from the very beginning!” 

That’s what it said on the poster, next to a life-size cut-out of Alfred Hitchcock — and it was the first thing that greeted punters at picture houses across America, as they collected their tickets for the cinematic event of 1960.