78/52: Hitchcock's shower scene, 78 shots and 54 cuts that changed cinema forever
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Label
78/52: Hitchcock's shower scene, 78 shots and 54 cuts that changed cinema forever
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MWT rating: NR
Main title
78/52: Hitchcock's shower scene
Review
"Captivating. Does full justice to how Psycho changed the heartbeat of the world."--Variety
Runtime
92
Sub title
78 shots and 54 cuts that changed cinema forever
Summary
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. With 78 camera set-ups and 52 edits over the course of three minutes, Psycho redefined screen violence, set the stage for decades of slasher films to come, and introduced a new element of danger to the movie going experience
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Seventy-eight/fifty-two
Genre
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