August 12, 2016

Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror thriller directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The murder of Janet Leigh's character in the shower scene is the film's pivotal scene and one of the best-known in all of cinema. The blood in the scene is reputed to have been Bosco chocolate syrup, which shows up better on black-and-white film, and has more realistic density than stage blood. The sound of the knife entering flesh was created by plunging a knife into a casaba melon. Janet Leigh was so affected by this scene when she saw it, that she no longer took showers unless she absolutely had to; she would lock all the doors and windows and would leave the bathroom and shower door open.