I was sad when I heard that actress Janet Leigh died. She was only 77. Janet's shocking murder in the classic thriller "Psycho" made us all think twice before stepping into a motel shower. Her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis was at her bedside when she died Sunday. Leigh had suffered from vasculitis, an inflamation of the blood vessels. Janet's murder scene in "Psycho" set the standard for the scream and slasher movies, a lot of which starred her daughter Jamie Lee. I found some interesting and true trivia about the famous shower scene.
- The blood in the shower scene was actually chocolate syrup. Since the movie wasn’t in color, the red wouldn’t show up any way, plus Alfred Hitchcock said the syrup was the only thing with the viscosity of real blood when mixed with the shower water.
- The shower scene was only two and half minutes long, but it took over a week to film. It was shot in 2 or 3 second increments.
- Hitchcock admitted to punking Janet Leigh by turning the water ice cold in order to get her best scream.
- Psycho was the first movie to show a bathroom with a toilet; it even showed the toilet flushing.
- Since the filming of Psycho, Janet Leigh did not take showers; she said she felt safer in the bathtub.
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