20 Horror Movies That Revealed TOO MUCH

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is one of the most iconic and beloved horror films of all time for damn good reason, but there's one scene that a lot of people take issue with: that damn, dirty exposition dump.

The climax reveals that the various murders have actually been committed by unassuming motel owner Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), who has a split personality resembling his own dead mother. But this is followed up by an overlong scene in which psychiatrist Dr. Richman (Simon Oakland) fully explains Norman's illness in the most basic, spoon-feeding manner possible.

Coming at the end of such a taut and well-crafted film, this exposition dump feels like a clumsy five-minute lecture for the cheap seats, and while such mental health concepts were less understood by the audiences of 1960, it's still way, way too much.

Ideally, we would've cut straight to Norman listening to his mother's voice in jail and ditched this ham-fisted explanation entirely.