:eek: 
Nice! (I’m in deep shit if my tooth-care routine is held against me.)
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In this vein… I just watched the shower scene in Hitchcock’s ‘‘Psycho’’ for the first time ever. It didn’t show anything remotely gory… not a single stab wound… and yet it is one of the decidedly freakiest things I have ever seen. I feel like that scene showed me more about what it is like to die than any horror movie I’ve ever seen. You just literally sit there and watch her die. The way she reaches for the shower curtain to pull herself up, but doesn’t have the strength… gut-wrenching. It’s over fast, but not fast enough.
Not to be all old-timey and everything, but I feel like that kind of imagination and atmospheric cinematography is lacking nowadays in mainstream film. Hitchcock scared the pants off of me without a bit of gore. I wish they made more films that way.
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It’s nice to see the scene through the eyes of a first-time watcher, and realize it wasn’t just the tone of the times or my youth that made this scene so horrifying. You summed up the impact of the shower scene and the power of excellent directing, acting and cinematography in an expert manner. It makes me want to watch Psycho all over again.
I’ve never gone in much for gore in movies. But it’s getting so I can’t watch any medical shows either…just because they CAN show realistic surgeries and splattering blood doesn’t mean they SHOULD. I quit House a while ago, I never watched ER but would be surprised if they don’t do the same thing. Grey’s Anatomy, and Private Practice both have had characters spraying the walls with blood in recent weeks. I watch TV to relax…
I think I’m starting to understand how Murder She Wrote got to be popular.
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It’s nice to see the scene through the eyes of a first-time watcher, and realize it wasn’t just the tone of the times or my youth that made this scene so horrifying. You summed up the impact of the shower scene and the power of excellent directing, acting and cinematography in an expert manner. It makes me want to watch Psycho all over again.
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My mother told me how her friend couldn’t take showers for weeks after seeing Psycho, so I was pumped. I finally saw it and was underimpressed. It was creepy but not scary to me. Of course, I also wondered how Casablanca could be so popular when all the lines were so cliched. 
I can see how it was groundbreaking at the time.