Thursday, May 21, 2020

The death of a beautiful woman

78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene -documentary that lasts 90 minutes is about the one particular shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Practically nothing else. Several people including Marli Renfro (Janet Leigh's double), Elijah Wood, Bret Easton Ellis, Peter Bogdanovich, Scott Spiegel, Eli Roth, Guillermo del Toro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neil Marshall and Karyn Kusama has their say about it and some has some interesting view and interpretations. Some others don't. To me the most interesting trivia was that the sound of the knife hitting Janet Leigh's body was generated by knifing honeydew and a steak. 78 camera setups and 52 cuts, hence the title.

No comments:

All this and more

A stand-up comedian struggles to co-parent his autistic son. A simple story, seen many times before, but solid and entertaining little flick...