78/52, a new documentary about just Psycho’s most famous scene, the murder of Janet Leigh’s Marion Crane in her hotel-room shower, is 91 minutes.
So in almost the same time you could watch the entire movie, you can go deep into its signature moment.
I’ve seen Psycho many times, gone shot-by-shot through the shower scene, read books on the making of the movie, and still got stuff out of 78/52.
The screeching strings, the plunging knife, the slow zoom out from a lifeless eyeball: in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho changed film history forever with its taboo-shattering shower scene.
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78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene - Official Trailer I HD I IFC Midnight