12 Perfect Horror Movies With One Glaring Flaw

60 years on, Psycho remains an absolutely shattering piece of horror cinema. It's still such a shocking, horrifying and brilliantly crafted nightmare in which every single brilliant scene adds to and strengthens the taboo-breaking, expectation-defying and scream-inducing masterpiece... or rather, nearly every single scene.

There is one pretty terrible scene at the very end which feels like it came out of a different, vastly inferior movie. Once Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is finally apprehended, a psychiatrist (Simon Oakland) dumps a ton of clunky, overlong exposition on both the characters and the audience as he breaks down Norman's psychological state.

Not only is this speech very dull but it really talks down to the audience, as most of what he says would have been worked out by the viewers already. In what is otherwise such a tightly-constructed film that utilizes visuals so well to tell its story, this ill-judged scene simply couldn't have felt more out-of-place.

Still, this is followed up with the fantastic "Why, she wouldn't even hurt a fly scene", so the film leaps back to its previous high levels of quality immediately after this.