If you are not old enough to have seen this on its original release you have NO IDEA how shocking, scary and marvelous PSYCHO was. The WHOLE THEATRE was SCREAMING There is simply NO way to recapture that feeling. Our fear reflexes are so deadened by overuse on 2nd rate schlock.
I first saw Psycho on TV at age 12, and the shower scene made my brown hair turn white. I took showers with the curtain open for at while. The entire movie had me in knots and closing my eyes.. Still one of the most terrifying, and there have been endless cheap rip offs of it
It's things like Psycho and the big father reveal in The Empire Strikes Back that I wish I could have experienced first hand before it was spoiled and hyped, when it was totally new
I BET! I would love to see it on a big screen with an audience even now. I've been lucky enough to see a few groundbreaking films in the cinema and enjoy extreme reactions, and it is definitely an added layer to the film experience.
If there is one good thing that comes from censorship, its the ingenius ways that writers, directors, etc use to get around it that ultimately end up making the film so much better and more memorable.
It's interesting that tricking the mind into an experience like this causes it to have more depth, and it's such a STRONG memory, to the point of initiating anxiety when thinking about it.
I completely agree! I feel like censorship produced more style in films (through heavy implication) that many most modern movies lack. Most scenes are so much more powerful when they’re left up to the audience’s imagination.
Hitchcock originally wasn't planning on having any music for the murder scene and all the motel scenes but the composer Bernard Herman insisted and his salary was doubled!
Alfred Hitchcock certainly knew how to make a scene work, and the music together with the editing and of course the acting make the shower scene in Psycho one of the most memorable movie moments in cinema history.
Crash & Burn true but then Halloween set the stage for the 80's cause almost every one had a killer killing off teens and was extra gore, Halloween and Psycho share the suspense in their movies
I lived in LA and worked in the industry for 17 years...what a great time I had back then....but watching these movies and learning how they shot them was the TRUE ART OF FILM...today, you want a man wearing a red and blue tight outfit to swing from his spider web from one building to another, no problem, a computer will do that all for you....learning how they shot a shower scene to especially redesign a shower to spray water past the lens IS THE TRUE MAGIC OF MOVIE MAKING!!!!!!! small details like that is why I got into the movie making industry
I agree the magic and excitement of movies is largely lost. There is no artistic feel. I miss the movies back then and that whole era that really felt like the ""old fashion Hollywood".
Mr. Hitchcock tells a riveting story with the lens.The art of story telling has been lost by the over reliance on CGI. I want to watch a story and not take part in a video game. As a 48 year "beginning" filmmaker, Mr. Hitchcock is my film school.
That's so true. It's a real thriller and scary as hell. Just thinking about that shower scene still gives me the shivers. Another good scene was when Abergast got it and fell backwards down the staircase. That movie's so scary I tend not to watch it too often. I can only imagine the impact it must have had on audiances when released for the first time at the theaters.
The famous or infamous shower scene was shot on the 17th to the 23rd of December 1959. Containing as it does the most iconic corpse stare in cinema history. The movie "PSYCHO" had its premier on the 16th of June 1960 in New York City. The TV premier was on the 24th of June 1967.
The most horrific part of that scene which was an incredibly brilliant touch by Hitchcock, is he cut off the music and replaced it with the water sounds, and stabbing sounds "chuk chuck chuk" to show how long it takes to really kill a person from stabbing. They don't immediately die, it's a very long process where they have to bleed out, even if it's 4 minutes, that is an incredibly long time to know that you are being murdered and you are about to die which makes that scene especially horrifying. Hard to believe it was made 1959. Some people will say "Yeah but the pupil in her eye wasn't dilated and when someone is dead, the pupil dilates" and i tell them, what makes you think she is dead? She could very well be in shock at that stage too horrified to even move or blink. She's just been butchered for what seems like an eternity
Hitchcock originally wanted NO MUSIC during the stabbing. But the other guy, I forget if it was the muscian or the storyboarder, convinced him in editing, to put the music in there. And Hitchcock realized he was wrong and said, yeah it works better with the music. But apparently his idea originally was no music, just the stabbing motions and the screams.
@@williamreid6255 - Yes! What's utterly brilliant about that music is it's not the staccato bang bang bang of the violins while she's being stabbed, but after that when Hitchcock shows her hand slowly descending against the tiles and Hermann has the cellos imitating people in a panic horrified saying "oh God! Oh God!" I must have watched this movie hundreds of times and every time that part sends chills down my spine. Hermann was incredible. How about the music he created for "Taxi driver"? OMG absolute genius. He put the mind of the main character Travis Bickle into sound. Bickle is a guy in his 20s and what do guys in their 20s constantly think about? Sex! So Hermann created this sexy music with a saxophone that sounds almost like stripper music, then he goes into this rage sound with military drums imitating PTSD, then the swirling music to imitate psychotic episodes. The guy was an unbelievable composer and he died at only 64
@@KaBoomChannel I always thought if the initial shrieks at the beginning of the stabbing imitated the sudden twist and horror that just came out from under the carpet and then the cellos and basses deep notes imitated the audiences reactions and inner thoughts (“what just happened?! How is this movie gonna end now?!” etc) but I see your point. Hell, Penderecki basically created go-to/default soundtrack for horror movies with his works such as _Kanon_ and _De Natura Sonoris,_ probably best known for their use in _The Shining._
Back then, you didn't need a lot of gore & extremely gruesome murder scenes to be scary. Hitchcock was the best at using suspense, music & clever camera angles to be frightening. Today's so called "scary" films like Saw & Final Departure are crap.
Final Departure? You mean Final Destination? That movie isn't a horror movie. Also, Saw was created specifically as a gore flick and not intended to be that scary either.
Yes, Final Destination, thanks. Sorry, I just don't get the newer gore flicks. Some of them from the 60's were bad, but in a cheesy way, which made them funny.
I don't get Saw. It's little "How much blood would you shed to stay alive" thing is kinda disturbing, and gets more disturbing the more you think about it. But how's it supposed to be scary? It's just watching people spill grotesque amounts of fake blood and intestines over the floor.
Michael Myers Clearly you haven't watched it. I'm not going to defend it as a good movie, because it's not, but you should give it a chance instead just stereotyping it.
I know most people would consider it trivial, but she’s right about Saul Bass’s title sequence being brilliant. And it’s extremely modern looking, especially when you consider the year the movie was released.
Janet Leigh said in an interview she no longer would take a shower after the film was taken. She told that you are basically defenseless, your hearing nothing but the water, your naked and don't have anything to protect yourself. I can understand where she was coming from. I'm sure a lot of people after they watched "Psycho" did no longer want to take a shower after that scene. I still love watching "Psycho" today. Love Janet Leigh & Anthony Perkins.
Actually, the scene where Vera Miles and John Gavin went to see Sheriff Al Chambers scared the daylights out of me. It set the tone for the final scenes, brilliantly. I cannot say enough about the terrific movie Psycho.
My 14 year old son said "I bet it's not scary at all" I watched him, watching 'it' & I could tell, he, which he later admitted, was filling his pants. Especially the end scene "They'll look at me & say 'Why he wouldn't even hurt a fly'"
I'm very lucky in that I first saw Psycho when I was 15. I'd heard about the shower scene of course, but I didn't know all the twists of the story. It's still probably my favorite Hitchcock film.
Studying 50 Years of Hitchcock, this is fascinating ! To understand how the shower scene was shot is very interesting. To know how considerate Hitch was of Janet Leigh was great to hear!
Hitchcock, the master of suspense, created unforgettable scenes without vulgarity, sacrilege or disrespect. This is one of the most memorable of all movies scenes in cinematic history.
I just love every example I can find to share with The Film Scene about the making of older films before all the high-tech stuff came onset. Fortunately, for those of us on limited budgets, the minds that think out-of-the-box save the most money. Thanks for sharing!
Of course, nobody knew that this movie were about to be considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all times; however steal the credits from the shower scene from this genius, not cool at all!.....
@@omikronweapon doubtful. The people filming knew what this would be. Saul Bass claimed many times he directed the pivotal scene of Marion Crane's murder by Mrs Bates on the record. If there was some kind of "misunderstanding", Bass would have cleared it up and not wait for the star and the camera operator to debunk the myth.
Aida Rashid: The shot of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) with her face on the bathroom floor--for years, until hearing about it here, I thought was a still action shot ! I'm just noticing the drop of water fall ! Lol ! She did any excellent job keeping still on that pose !
yes she did a great job remaining still even knowing the body mold was pealing away letting the guys above see a eye full.. after so many takes to to do that scene... I don't blame her for saying to Hell with it.. let them look. lol
Cool fact this clip at the very beginning is talking about the toilet but here we don't get that anecdote in its entirety. What they were talking about was that Psycho was the very first film in the history of Hollywood to ever feature a toilet on screen.
The best film ever made in my opinion Such deep layers to it for a movie of its time It just has layers and layers and layers and thn u uncover more layers the more u watch it
Andre Burton Why thank you lad, stop by the Riverwood Trader sometime, or if your feeling adventurous, head up to High Hrothgar to find me...I'll be most likely meditating with a dragon.
I love hearing about this as "Psycho" is my all time FAVE horror classic...still scares me to this day!! When I listen to her speaking, I swear she(Janet Leigh) sounds just like her daughter Jamie Leigh-Curtis (Scream Queen of the "Halloween" movies) Amazing, Thx much for this ^^uppy^^ at Halloween 2015..!! :))
I never thought I'd stand up for Louella Parsons the gossip columnist hag - but she alone said "Its a disgrace that Hitchcock was not even NOMINATED for a directing award for Psycho." -certainly he was the greatest director of the year.
I was a kid, 9 or 10 in 1959 or 1960, when the movie showed locally. I remember neighbors saying a couple down the street, saw it and the man was afraid to walk in the shower, or kitchen for a long time after they saw the movie. It was that scary. There's nothing in the world like it and never will be. Personally, I think black and white made the movie better.
I read that handling the "blood" in this scene was made easier because Hershey had just started selling chocolate syrup in a squeeze bottle at that time - which they used here. This scene was astoundingly shocking to audiences in 1960 because it seemed to show nudity and it was extremely violent for the time, plus it wasn't a cheap grade-Z movie but was by the most famous Hollywood director and had significant performers. AND the lead (sympathetic) character was unexpectedly killed off!
You couldn't kill people in the "most gruesome way" back then when you couldn't show a nipple. Now a days when they do show graphic violence they also show nipples as well as graphic sex. So you are comparing nudity of the early 60's with the violence of modern cinema. apples and oranges
msmithstud - Norman ( anothony Perkins) was not actually on set when the scene was shot - it is explained in the video "Anothy Perkins & Jannet Leigh On PSYCHO" by AmericanFilmIstitute
I wish I could've had an opportunity to meet Janet and talk about her work as Marion Crane. She was always so proud of that role and it's fun to see her talking so enthusiastically about it.
Nude model's name was Marli Renfro, a professional model who appeared in many men's magazines around this time as well as a Playboy cover. She was also a Playboy bunny for a while in Chicago, a performer in Vegas and a practicing nudist with few inhibitions. Any shot in this sequence which doesn't show any part of Janet's face . . . that's Marli.
@@MrParkerman6 Judge Judy looks more like, Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the awful hairdo that she's currently wearing and sadly, it's looks so unbecoming on her. I mean with all the money she earns each year on her show, I find it hard to believe that she can't get a better hair stylist and if she has, then she should fire her immediately and go back to her old one since, I always thought she was so beautifully coiffed before this new look that she's now sporting!😂
The late Ms. Janet Leigh. She along with Lauren Bacall, Sophia Lauren, Elizabeth Taylor, Mitzi Gaynor, and other actresses from the 40s - 60s exemplify classic beauty.
Psycho came out in theaters in New York and other U.S. cities in June 1960 all flocked the movies to go see it Alfred Hitchcock is a great film director his last film he directed was Family Plot in 1976 starring William Devane and the late Karen Black
I said it before and I ' ll said it now , Alfred Hitchcock was a top master and very professional director. Psycho, is the top one crime - mystery and psychological thriller of all times! Brilliant stuff! Is Basic Instict before the Basic Instict , another top one film in history !
Janet Leigh looks so Beautiful at age 70. She has aged gracefully. I loved her explaining the shower scene. I always wondered if that scene was easy or difficult.
Has anyone in these comments mentioned Bernard Herrmann's music? ... WIthout his screaming violins it wouldn't have had the effect it had, nor would it have become one of the most discussed and remembered scenes in movie history.
Assolutamente pazzescooo!!! 6 giorni di ripresa per 45 secondi di film! 6 giorni sotto la doccia! E tutto il problema del fuoco manuale nella carrellata che parte dall'occhio! E poi il problema delle goccioline d'acqua che ti entrano nell'occhio che devi tenere immobile! E poi tremila altri problemi pazzeschi! Ed è un film pazzesco! Che geni!!!
Genius & master of suspense. Hitchcock's finest film & by far the BEST horror/terror scene ever filmed. It left me nervous when showering alone for years. Esp in motels.
Janet Leigh should have taught a film class. The way she describes filming that shower scene alone is brilliant.
Janet Leigh really seems like she was a nice lady.
ikr so sad she died.
Gee I wonder why...
She was indeed.
Yes, so charming here.
Shandra9000mail that’s her mom
If you are not old enough to have seen this on its original release you have NO IDEA how shocking, scary and marvelous PSYCHO was. The WHOLE THEATRE was SCREAMING There is simply NO way to recapture that feeling. Our fear reflexes are so deadened by overuse on 2nd rate schlock.
+poetcomic1 I wish I had lived back then man :(
in the 60s? Lol no you don't.
I first saw Psycho on TV at age 12, and the shower scene made my brown hair turn white. I took showers with the curtain open for at while. The entire movie had me in knots and closing my eyes.. Still one of the most terrifying, and there have been endless cheap rip offs of it
It's things like Psycho and the big father reveal in The Empire Strikes Back that I wish I could have experienced first hand before it was spoiled and hyped, when it was totally new
I BET! I would love to see it on a big screen with an audience even now. I've been lucky enough to see a few groundbreaking films in the cinema and enjoy extreme reactions, and it is definitely an added layer to the film experience.
Janet Leigh is a true gem. She's such a lovely woman inside and out.
If there is one good thing that comes from censorship, its the ingenius ways that writers, directors, etc use to get around it that ultimately end up making the film so much better and more memorable.
It's interesting that tricking the mind into an experience like this causes it to have more depth, and it's such a STRONG memory, to the point of initiating anxiety when thinking about it.
I completely agree! I feel like censorship produced more style in films (through heavy implication) that many most modern movies lack. Most scenes are so much more powerful when they’re left up to the audience’s imagination.
RIP Janet Leigh you were beautiful and brilliant. Psycho gave me nightmares for months
omg her voice even sounded the same. r.i.p scream queen
Hitchcock originally wasn't planning on having any music for the murder scene and all the motel scenes but the composer Bernard Herman insisted and his salary was doubled!
It may have been excellent in it's own way, but the score has certainly become as iconic as anything else in the film
Jared Lowey nope his wife did
Nobody could have bettered Anthony Perkins’ performance. Probably one of the scariest films ever without invoking the supernatural.
If there is a better performance anywhere in film, I haven't seen it.
Alfred Hitchcock certainly knew how to make a scene work, and the music together with the editing and of course the acting make the shower scene in Psycho one of the most memorable movie moments in cinema history.
Do you happen to know where exactly is the swampy pond where the car was dumped I know is in gorman California but don't know the exact area!
+Mario Campos Falls Lake
Isabel Martinho thanks I know where this lake is!
Psycho was the birth of the modern day horror film. Watch Halloween and you will see many similarities.
Dressed to Kill also uses a lot from Psycho, and effectively
Crash & Burn true but then Halloween set the stage for the 80's cause almost every one had a killer killing off teens and was extra gore, Halloween and Psycho share the suspense in their movies
I will definitely compare Halloween to Psycho, It's similar
Ironic because Janet Leigh was Jamie Lee Curtis mother
The scene in the closet where Michael attacks Laurie is similar to the shower scene.
I find her voice so cute. =D
I lived in LA and worked in the industry for 17 years...what a great time I had back then....but watching these movies and learning how they shot them was the TRUE ART OF FILM...today, you want a man wearing a red and blue tight outfit to swing from his spider web from one building to another, no problem, a computer will do that all for you....learning how they shot a shower scene to especially redesign a shower to spray water past the lens IS THE TRUE MAGIC OF MOVIE MAKING!!!!!!! small details like that is why I got into the movie making industry
I agree the magic and excitement of movies is largely lost. There is no artistic feel. I miss the movies back then and that whole era that really felt like the ""old fashion Hollywood".
Mr. Hitchcock tells a riveting story with the lens.The art of story telling has been lost by the over reliance on CGI. I want to watch a story and not take part in a video game. As a 48 year "beginning" filmmaker, Mr. Hitchcock is my film school.
Has to be one of the best movies ever made. It's still relevant 56 years later.
That's so true. It's a real thriller and scary as hell. Just thinking about that shower scene still gives me the shivers. Another good scene was when Abergast got it and fell backwards down the staircase. That movie's so scary I tend not to watch it too often. I can only imagine the impact it must have had on audiances when released for the first time at the theaters.
AR - BO - GAST = as pronounced by Sheriff Chambers.
It think it helped kill off the Mom & Pop (or Mom & Son) motel industry
The famous or infamous shower scene was shot on the 17th to the 23rd of December 1959. Containing as it does the most iconic corpse stare in cinema history. The movie "PSYCHO" had its premier on the 16th of June 1960 in New York City. The TV premier was on the 24th of June 1967.
The most horrific part of that scene which was an incredibly brilliant touch by Hitchcock, is he cut off the music and replaced it with the water sounds, and stabbing sounds "chuk chuck chuk" to show how long it takes to really kill a person from stabbing. They don't immediately die, it's a very long process where they have to bleed out, even if it's 4 minutes, that is an incredibly long time to know that you are being murdered and you are about to die which makes that scene especially horrifying. Hard to believe it was made 1959. Some people will say "Yeah but the pupil in her eye wasn't dilated and when someone is dead, the pupil dilates" and i tell them, what makes you think she is dead? She could very well be in shock at that stage too horrified to even move or blink. She's just been butchered for what seems like an eternity
Hitchcock originally wanted NO MUSIC during the stabbing. But the other guy, I forget if it was the muscian or the storyboarder, convinced him in editing, to put the music in there. And Hitchcock realized he was wrong and said, yeah it works better with the music. But apparently his idea originally was no music, just the stabbing motions and the screams.
The composer was Bernard Hermann. Hitchcock doubled Hermann’s salary after he surprised Hitchcock with the music he wrote for that scene.
@@williamreid6255 - Yes! What's utterly brilliant about that music is it's not the staccato bang bang bang of the violins while she's being stabbed, but after that when Hitchcock shows her hand slowly descending against the tiles and Hermann has the cellos imitating people in a panic horrified saying "oh God! Oh God!"
I must have watched this movie hundreds of times and every time that part sends chills down my spine. Hermann was incredible.
How about the music he created for "Taxi driver"? OMG absolute genius. He put the mind of the main character Travis Bickle into sound.
Bickle is a guy in his 20s and what do guys in their 20s constantly think about? Sex! So Hermann created this sexy music with a saxophone that sounds almost like stripper music, then he goes into this rage sound with military drums imitating PTSD, then the swirling music to imitate psychotic episodes. The guy was an unbelievable composer and he died at only 64
@@KaBoomChannel I always thought if the initial shrieks at the beginning of the stabbing imitated the sudden twist and horror that just came out from under the carpet and then the cellos and basses deep notes imitated the audiences reactions and inner thoughts (“what just happened?! How is this movie gonna end now?!” etc) but I see your point.
Hell, Penderecki basically created go-to/default soundtrack for horror movies with his works such as _Kanon_ and _De Natura Sonoris,_ probably best known for their use in _The Shining._
Back then, you didn't need a lot of gore & extremely gruesome murder scenes to be scary. Hitchcock was the best at using suspense, music & clever camera angles to be frightening. Today's so called "scary" films like Saw & Final Departure are crap.
Final Departure? You mean Final Destination? That movie isn't a horror movie.
Also, Saw was created specifically as a gore flick and not intended to be that scary either.
Yes, Final Destination, thanks. Sorry, I just don't get the newer gore flicks. Some of them from the 60's were bad, but in a cheesy way, which made them funny.
Lol because back then they had Hitchcock
I don't get Saw. It's little "How much blood would you shed to stay alive" thing is kinda disturbing, and gets more disturbing the more you think about it. But how's it supposed to be scary? It's just watching people spill grotesque amounts of fake blood and intestines over the floor.
Michael Myers
Clearly you haven't watched it. I'm not going to defend it as a good movie, because it's not, but you should give it a chance instead just stereotyping it.
The shower scene is the most iconic movie scene, it's been parodied countless times in sitcoms and other movies 🎬.
One of the greatest scenes by history's greatest director.
I know most people would consider it trivial, but she’s right about Saul Bass’s title sequence being brilliant.
And it’s extremely modern looking, especially when you consider the year the movie was released.
Janet Leigh said in an interview she no longer would take a shower after the film was taken. She told that you are basically defenseless, your hearing nothing but the water, your naked and don't have anything to protect yourself. I can understand where she was coming from. I'm sure a lot of people after they watched "Psycho" did no longer want to take a shower after that scene. I still love watching "Psycho" today. Love Janet Leigh & Anthony Perkins.
And to remember, Mr Hitchcock had a small budget to shot the film with a tv camera team.
Today movies cost bilions and don't worth it.
yep,thats why i prefer some other hitchcock movie,it didnt hit me first time visually.like vertigo for instance
Lucas Santos what movie has cost anywhere near 1 billion dollars ?
Lucas Santos A billion dollar film isn't profitable
Movies don’t cost billions. Don’t know where you’re getting this from.
William Brynn Skyfall
She is a very lovely, classy, humble and dignified woman....she has a wonderful ease and warmth about her!
She was so beautiful doing that scene
Yes. Her and Vera Miles were both stunningly beautiful.
Actually, the scene where Vera Miles and John Gavin went to see Sheriff Al Chambers scared the daylights out of me. It set the tone for the final scenes, brilliantly. I cannot say enough about the terrific movie Psycho.
RIP Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins
Masterpiece. Still holds up to this day!
Janet Leigh looks amazing, and it was so enjoyable hearing her story of making that famous scene.
Her eyes were so expressive.
One of the best ever….scared me to death.
My 14 year old son said "I bet it's not scary at all" I watched him, watching 'it' & I could tell, he, which he later admitted, was filling his pants. Especially the end scene "They'll look at me & say 'Why he wouldn't even hurt a fly'"
Still very uncomfortable to watch it 60 years after first filmed
Janet's so adorable! Sweet little lady.
I'm very lucky in that I first saw Psycho when I was 15. I'd heard about the shower scene of course, but I didn't know all the twists of the story. It's still probably my favorite Hitchcock film.
i got a bates motel ad before this
She was smoking hot back then...I would have loved to have taken a shower with her anytime!
Stephen Riley
what
Janet was a timeless beauty. She was a beautiful young lady and a beautiful old lady. Not many people look that great at the age she is here.
I love inside details like these. Makes the viewing experience come ever more (cough) alive.
agree
Seventh Mist thats if they are telling the truth
That's a unique way to explain it...
AMAZING PSYCHO
12:50 omg she is hilarious XD and she is such an amazing actress. I love you Janet Leigh!
Studying 50 Years of Hitchcock, this is fascinating ! To understand how the shower scene was shot is very interesting. To know how considerate Hitch was of Janet Leigh was great to hear!
Hitchcock, the master of suspense, created unforgettable scenes without vulgarity, sacrilege or disrespect. This is one of the most memorable of all movies scenes in cinematic history.
I just love every example I can find to share with The Film Scene about the making of older films before all the high-tech stuff came onset. Fortunately, for those of us on limited budgets, the minds that think out-of-the-box save the most money. Thanks for sharing!
13:05. Amazing how no one objected to a scene of a young woman being brutally murdered, but objected to a shot of her bare bottom.
@Womb de Troy
I think their point was the, by modern standards, silliness of such.
On an episode of the show "Psych", the episode "Mr. Yin Presents" is based off of this movie. It was an amazing episode.
Of course, nobody knew that this movie were about to be considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all times; however steal the credits from the shower scene from this genius, not cool at all!.....
my guess is someone misunderstood what the guy meant/said.
@@omikronweapon doubtful. The people filming knew what this would be. Saul Bass claimed many times he directed the pivotal scene of Marion Crane's murder by Mrs Bates on the record. If there was some kind of "misunderstanding", Bass would have cleared it up and not wait for the star and the camera operator to debunk the myth.
Aida Rashid: The shot of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) with her face on the bathroom floor--for years, until hearing about it here, I thought was a still action shot ! I'm just noticing the drop of water fall ! Lol ! She did any excellent job keeping still on that pose !
yes she did a great job remaining still even knowing the body mold was pealing away letting the guys above see a eye full.. after so many takes to to do that scene... I don't blame her for saying to Hell with it.. let them look. lol
It starts as a freeze frame, as the image is rotating.
Matthew Santoro once said in one of his videos that in the shower scene, the blood was chocolate sauce or something.
Yoshifan0312RBLX yeah it was chocolate syrup
yes it is chocolate syrup
Such a waste of chocolate syrup ):
+Sam Oh Bosco, to be exact.
+Torsten Landsson Its not really a waste if it was used to make an iconic scene
Brilliant #Hitchcock !!! Kudos to the entire team !!! The shower head shot with just the camera at an angle is sheer genius !!!
Cool fact this clip at the very beginning is talking about the toilet but here we don't get that anecdote in its entirety. What they were talking about was that Psycho was the very first film in the history of Hollywood to ever feature a toilet on screen.
Right. It was super racey for the time.
I found it fascinating that Hitchcock was born 08/13/1899, and his wife Alma was born the very next day, and died 799 days after he did.
The best film ever made in my opinion
Such deep layers to it for a movie of its time
It just has layers and layers and layers and thn u uncover more layers the more u watch it
You got to feel bad for the women doing the scene, ugh... stuck in the water for hours
And doing all that work for one scene in a span of 7 days! Good god, bless them for the hard work!
XIXTHRAHSER69 love your profile picture
Andre Burton Why thank you lad, stop by the Riverwood Trader sometime, or if your feeling adventurous, head up to High Hrothgar to find me...I'll be most likely meditating with a dragon.
XIXTHRAHSER69 to find me search every cave in Tamriel
Andre Burton (*in Smeagol voice*) No......th-...that's not fair!
Now it's the 62nd year of the Psycho franchise. 👏🏻🙏🏻😊💜
Someone said it was the first time a toilet was seen flushing in movies
Janet was absolutely stunning and seemed like such a beautiful soul. Definitely a loss to this world.
I love hearing about this as "Psycho" is my all time FAVE horror classic...still scares me to this day!! When I listen to her speaking, I swear she(Janet Leigh) sounds just like her daughter Jamie Leigh-Curtis (Scream Queen of the "Halloween" movies) Amazing, Thx much for this ^^uppy^^ at Halloween 2015..!! :))
That actress is still beautiful, years later. I think she did a great job in that movie. :)
The guy who is interviewed starting at 2:50 looks like my history professor from college---so scholarly, academic, and a comforting father figure.
until he puts on his mothers dress.
I never thought I'd stand up for Louella Parsons the gossip columnist hag - but she alone said "Its a disgrace that Hitchcock was not even NOMINATED for a directing award for Psycho." -certainly he was the greatest director of the year.
I was a kid, 9 or 10 in 1959 or 1960, when the movie showed locally. I remember neighbors saying a couple down the street, saw it and the man was afraid to walk in the shower, or kitchen for a long time after they saw the movie. It was that scary. There's nothing in the world like it and never will be. Personally, I think black and white made the movie better.
Janet Leigh and beautiful lady in this interview but she was the best she'd ever looked in that movie. In my opinion.
the new movie Hitchcock is pretty brilliant... casting was superb and the script...captivating and moving =)
As of tonight I just ran the psycho franchise one to four it was awesome these movies are so well played out
Janet wanted to make more movies with AH but he didnt want to use her anymore because everyone would think one thing PSYCHO
'Double Duty'? Why not! Janet Leigh was absolutely beautiful, even during the interview in her 70's, just vibrant and gorgeous.
Love hearing from Jamie Lee and the cast of Original Psycho movie
A masterpiece
The actress who played Marion is Janet Leigh, but unfortunately she died 4 years ago at the age of 77.
I read that handling the "blood" in this scene was made easier because Hershey had just started selling chocolate syrup in a squeeze bottle at that time - which they used here.
This scene was astoundingly shocking to audiences in 1960 because it seemed to show nudity and it was extremely violent for the time, plus it wasn't a cheap grade-Z movie but was by the most famous Hollywood director and had significant performers. AND the lead (sympathetic) character was unexpectedly killed off!
You couldn't kill people in the "most gruesome way" back then when you couldn't show a nipple. Now a days when they do show graphic violence they also show nipples as well as graphic sex. So you are comparing nudity of the early 60's with the violence of modern cinema. apples and oranges
msmithstud - Norman ( anothony Perkins) was not actually on set when the scene was shot - it is explained in the video "Anothy Perkins & Jannet Leigh On PSYCHO" by AmericanFilmIstitute
I wish I could've had an opportunity to meet Janet and talk about her work as Marion Crane. She was always so proud of that role and it's fun to see her talking so enthusiastically about it.
Janet Leigh saw herself in the MOVIE with that shower scene took baths after that never wanted to step in the shower EVER again
Nude model's name was Marli Renfro, a professional model who appeared in many men's magazines around this time as well as a Playboy cover. She was also a Playboy bunny for a while in Chicago, a performer in Vegas and a practicing nudist with few inhibitions. Any shot in this sequence which doesn't show any part of Janet's face . . . that's Marli.
Wow I could watch this do documentary for hours.
Janet looks like Judge Judy.
No, Judge Judy looks like Estelle Getty
No way...❗❗❗❗
@@MrParkerman6 Judge Judy looks more like, Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the awful hairdo that she's currently wearing and sadly, it's looks so unbecoming on her. I mean with all the money she earns each year on her show, I find it hard to believe that she can't get a better hair stylist and if she has, then she should fire her immediately and go back to her old one since, I always thought she was so beautifully coiffed before this new look that she's now sporting!😂
The late Ms. Janet Leigh. She along with Lauren Bacall, Sophia Lauren, Elizabeth Taylor, Mitzi Gaynor, and other actresses from the 40s - 60s exemplify classic beauty.
Man ,classic Cinema.. RIP
What an amazing lady
She can’t put two words together without a script
Psycho came out in theaters in New York and other U.S. cities in June 1960 all flocked the movies to go see it Alfred Hitchcock is a great film director his last film he directed was Family Plot in 1976 starring William Devane and the late Karen Black
Rihanna played Marion Crane in the television series Bates Motel with actor Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates
That scene was a brilliant siminar on how to create violence and gore without actually showing any
I said it before and I ' ll said it now , Alfred Hitchcock was a top master and very professional director. Psycho, is the top one crime - mystery and psychological thriller of all times! Brilliant stuff! Is Basic Instict before the Basic Instict , another top one film in history !
Ella es hermosa!!
Janet Leigh looks so Beautiful at age 70. She has aged gracefully. I loved her explaining the shower scene. I always wondered if that scene was easy or difficult.
Hitch WAS A sick puppy!
Its now out on blu ray in hi def and both versions.hitchcocks cinema un cut version and the tv version thats been around a long time ( cut)
Yes, search for "Making of psycho." Someone just uploaded the entire making of feature.
Has anyone in these comments mentioned Bernard Herrmann's music? ... WIthout his screaming violins it wouldn't have had the effect it had, nor would it have become one of the most discussed and remembered scenes in movie history.
Janet was 70 here. I'm 34 and I'd have wanted to go out wih her.
8:21 “And he said, ‘The casaba.”
I think that might be my favorite Hitchcock-related quote of all time.
Assolutamente pazzescooo!!! 6 giorni di ripresa per 45 secondi di film! 6 giorni sotto la doccia! E tutto il problema del fuoco manuale nella carrellata che parte dall'occhio! E poi il problema delle goccioline d'acqua che ti entrano nell'occhio che devi tenere immobile! E poi tremila altri problemi pazzeschi! Ed è un film pazzesco! Che geni!!!
Janet Leigh was such a successful actress!
Janet Leigh so wonderful.
Famous iconic shower scene in Psycho soon followed by the shark attack swimming scene in Jaws which featuring Chrissie naked
Genius & master of suspense. Hitchcock's finest film & by far the BEST horror/terror scene ever filmed. It left me nervous when showering alone for years. Esp in motels.
RIP ,Her and her Daughter
Any non movie footage of Janet is much appreciated.
Thats how a lady should sound. What beautiful voice Janet Leigh had. Melts me eveytime.
Her voice was especially good in setting the mood of many of the Frank Sinatra scenes in The Manchurian Candidate
“How a lady should sound”. Yikes.
The shower scene was so powerful that it has been copied by numerous suspense thriller films over the years,
Janet and Jamie Lee kinda share the same voice and mannerisms
Like mother like daughter