In A&E’s ‘Bates Motel,’ a teenage boy meets more than one psycho

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” has stuck with us for five decades for many reasons, not all of them having to do with a shower curtain. As film scholar David Thomson and others have noted, “Pyscho” was pure, perfect provocation marketed as being so frightening as to restrict the way ticketholders could come and go during theatrical screenings. The lasting innovation was the film’s audacity to murder its star midway through. Yet the real art of “Psychoâ�...