![]() ![]() ![]() The twist? The raging bellboy who stabs him (with a newspaper) is co-writer Barry Levinson, who would go on to direct Diner, Good Morning, Vietnam and Rain Man.Īvailable for sale and rental on iTunes, Google Play and PlayStation 4. No one wants to see Mel Brooks take a shower, but that’s the price of the gag in his all-out Hitchcock spoof. Maybe that’s a good thing.Īvailable for sale and rental on iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft and Cineplex 2. I could probably fill this article with Brian De Palma’s riffs on Psycho’s shower scene – in Carrie, in Dressed To Kill, Blow Out and Body Double – but this one, with William Finley’s Phantom stalking Gerrit Graham’s preening Beef before the big show, is the only riff to employ a plunger. It’s so distinct that filmmakers should think very carefully before referencing it… and most of them do. Philippe’s new documentary 78/52 spends an hour and a half celebrating the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho – a watershed moment in horror, and one that’s resonated through cinema ever since. ![]()
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