"It's because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's stories so much that I started making suspense films," (Poe Museum) is a quote from world-famous director Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock directed highly regarded films such as Vertigo in 1958 and The Birds in 1963. However, he also directed the 1960 horror suspense film Psycho. Psycho is about a young woman named Marion Crane who is dissatisfied with her life and runs away with the money she is entrusted to take to the bank. While driving she stops at the Bates motel where the owner, Norman Bates, an individual suffering from dissociative identity disorder, eventually kills her (IMDb). Alfred Hitchcock uses this mental illness in Psycho as a way to develop a plot comparable to the way Edgar Allen Poe employs a psychological disorder in “The Tell Tale Heart.” Mental disorders enriched the two works by developing the rising action and the climax. In the case of "Psycho" Norman, dressed as his mother, kills Marion in the shower and then returns to his house and angrily talks to his mother about the murder as if he had killed her (IMDb). As...