Above is the famous shower scene from 'Psycho' (1960). The film is a very unusual film. Just like other horror films, it is very jumpy and leaves viewers anticipating. There are many things about this film that make it very special and difficult to recreate.
I like the idea of the black and white colour being used for the film as it creates suspense and makes it just a bit more scary. What I found extremely amazing about the shower scene itself is that it featured 77 different camera angles!
I also watched a remake of the shower scene which was a part of 'Psycho' (1998). For some reason, I didn't get the same feeling that I did with the original film. It didn't look as realistic. When the curtains were drawn by the killer, there was no music to accompany his actions straight away so I was less frightened by this. Alfred Hitchcock uses chocolate sauce for the blood in the original movie but in the remake, the blood looks extremely fake which makes it even harder to believe.
However, there were some things in the remake that were added that worked quite well. For example, as she was dying, we were shown her pupil's dilating which was something that Hitchcock mentioned he forgot to add in. Everything was done nearly the same but I still think the original was much better than the remake.
When I watched both of the clips, I paused it on the shots that were made to look exactly the same and this is what I discovered. The shots were almost identical.
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