This shower scene from Psycho (1960) is the most famous scene from the film. This clip indicates how Hitchcock used editing and cinematography a lot to create a powerful film. The use of montage through collision cutting of slow to quick shots creates and builds tension and makes the audience feel as if they are there before suddenly making us panicked with very quick shots. The montage of fast shots in the shower also creates excitement and doesn’t make it like every other film that had come before Psycho, it makes it more interesting. This scene also proves how the female victim is typically killed. Although it wasn’t a sex scene she was naked and in the shower when she was killed. Mise-en-scene and sound are a main part of this scene, the body horror and restricted narration show this well. The gore of when Marion is killed was one of the first scenes that was allowed to have it in after the Hays Code started to die out.
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