Psycho
48% overall doesn't tell the real story for Psycho. This is a film that gets stronger as tournaments advance — a better matchup in a final than its win rate suggests. Hitchcock killed his leading lady forty minutes in and invented a new kind of cinema. The structural audacity still registers, which keeps it from becoming a museum piece on the ballot. 1.3s per vote suggests strong instincts. Most voters arrive at this matchup already knowing which way they lean.
Synopsis
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.
The semis are unkind at 29%, down from 53% in the opening. But the final rewrites the narrative: 85%. The dip is real, but it's the recovery that defines Psycho.
The closest rivalry is with The Incredible Hulk at 47% — a matchup tight enough that a handful of votes could flip the lead. Psycho owns The Silence of the Lambs at 100% but Death of a Unicorn flips the script entirely: just 25%.
Featured in All Time Horror Classics.
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