Here’s a great video essay from those wonderful people at StudioBinder.
We know at the time that Psycho had such an emotion and visceral impact on its audience, but here’s how the infamous scene was put together, by the Maestro himself.
What are your thoughts about the music, editing and set design of the scene?
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I didn't know so much went into filming that scene, Geoff Hall. The scene and editing are fantastic, but the music made the scene iconic in my opinion.
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Maurice Vaughan and also the fact that they paid Saul Bass $2000 to storyboard the shower scene!! Wow!
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Saul might've been happy, Geoff Hall. That's a lot for one sequence. The narrator said, "The full bathroom was constructed with removable walls to capture the many different angles." That's one benefit of building sets.
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@Geoff Thanks for the share, intriguing insights. Out of the box white lighting/location with no foreshadow of terror & reverse shot of seemingly a knife in her torso are cool ideas. Extreme close ups render it personal. Camera angles caused me more perturbation than pure gore in many modern horrors. Made well before the digital age & later on VFX yet the film still has a growing fan base. A fan of Vintage Noir both A & B films (not my qualification of them) I’d love to use some of these cuts.