Psycho is a genre-defining movie, regarded as one of the finest
psychological horror films of all time. The film broke new
ground in several ways.
It was also the first
film to show a toilet flushing on screen. The censors objected
to it and tried have the toilet scene removed, but Hitchcock
objected. They eventually gave up trying to fix the film and let
the toilet flush be shown. Interesting that the offending flush takes place about forty
seconds before a character is brutally stabbed to death in a
shower while completely naked.
Incidentally, Alfred
Hitchcock staged the shower murder scene in such a way
the censors could not find a specific shot that broke
the censor's rules.
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