Screening Dates: 13 February 2026, Friday, 8:00 pm / 14 March 2026, Saturday, 6:30 pm / 5 April 2026, Sunday, 6:30 pm

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Patricia Hitchcock

USA / 1960 / 109 min / Black & White / English / Turkish subtitles

Driven by a sudden impulse, Marion steals money from her workplace and sets out by car toward California to reunite with the man she hopes to marry. Caught in a storm along the way, she decides to spend the night at a small roadside motel. Its proprietor, Norman, is a quiet young man who lives alone with his sick, elderly mother in the house overlooking the motel. The strange intimacy that develops between Norman and Marion leads her to question her impulsive decision, while the shadow of an unseen presence in the house grows increasingly oppressive.

Psycho is a threshold film that fractures the reliability of the modern narrative subject: Norman’s divided self destabilizes the foundations of both the American Dream and the cinematic gaze. Hitchcock’s deliberate, low-budget rupture becomes a revolution that tears through aesthetic comfort zones. Pushing the limits of censorship with its infamous shower scene, the film also establishes the now-standard rule of “no admittance after the film begins,” asserting that suspense can only be sustained through an uninterrupted viewing experience—and aiming to prevent spoilers before the term itself entered common use.

*Special thanks to our main program sponsor Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi for their support.