Showers - The Art of Suspense

Showers can be invigorating, help you wake up in the morning, be a blast of energy, or can ease aching muscles. Hot showers can soothe, cold showers can refresh - but what about showers that create suspense? It's strongly advised before stepping into the shower to not think about Psycho. The film is famous for one scene that has been written into movie history. The shower scene is so notorious that you can even buy imitation Psycho shower curtains featuring a dark shadowy figure clutching a knife with colourful bursts of red....Not to everyone's taste!

Showers and Suspense

Showers are often used in movies as shorthand. They can signify the end of a hard day - a hero washing away the day's work, a heart-broken heroine trying to wash the man out of her hair, and of course, showers are obligatory for the more raunchy flicks. But Hitchcock has forever associated showers with murder. The bloody shower scene is perhaps the scene most people think of when they think of Hitchcock. The film has been attributed for exacerbating people's phobias of taking showers. The director did the same for anyone with a fear of birds in The Birds. Psycho features Norman Bates who befriends Marion Crane, a secretary, in his motel that he runs with his sickly mother in the basement. But when the secretary goes to take a shower, the horrific shower scene occurs - although the scene isn't explicitly graphic - the use of music and power of suggestion as blood splatters through her screams - make it one of the scariest scenes in cinema history.

Showers: Psycho Killer

The movie is the ultimate cross-dresser twist, with Bates dressing up as his actually deceased mother. Taking showers will never be the same again after watching the movie, just as swimming in the ocean takes on an extra edge after watching Jaws. Just as you know a shark won't attack you (or very unlikely), you know nothing will happen when you're taking your showers, but the film has a phobia-inducing effect. It's been reported that allegedly fans of the film refused to have showers for years after watching the movie! But no doubt even the most susceptible movie-goer will reassess their fear of showers when they hear the blood used on set was actually chocolate syrup.

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