Horror is a very difficult territory for filmmakers because one wrong move can tarnish an entire movie. If a director decides to tone down the scares, they risk boring the audience with an excessively ...

Leigh shares stories about Psycho, including the infamous shower scene. Also, screenwriter Evan Hunter talks about working with the Hitchcock on his next film, The Birds. Originally broadcast in 1999.

Sixty-five years ago, Alfred Hitchcock shocked audiences with his film ‘Psycho.’ It broke Hollywood conventions about what a film should and should not do, ushered in a new era of horror/thriller, and ...

"How'd they do that?" It's a question many a film buff has asked over the years about a fabled, and frightening, movie scene. David Edelstein tells us a new documentary holds the answer: Halloween's a ...

Getting stabbed a bunch of times in the shower by an angry motel owner would make anyone prefer baths. It’s been 14 years since actress Janet Leigh passed away at age 77, and a recently recovered ...

Even if someone has never seen Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, chances are they’ve seen at least part of the horror movie, and that part is likely the shower scene. The Wizard of Oz might be the most ...

Fifty years ago this month, untold numbers of Americans stopped taking showers. The cause of this sudden downturn in personal hygiene was not a shortage of soap or water but, rather, an overabundance ...

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock shocked audiences with the release of the horror film Psycho. Regarded as the first proto-slasher, along with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, which came out the same year, ...