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Harsher in Hindsight: Myra Davis, who was Janet Leigh's stand-in during production of Psycho, was raped and murdered by a neighbor in 1988.

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More importantly it blurred the line between high and low art, with crude pulp material (dealing with illicit sex, robbery and a depraved Serial Killer) becoming as profitable, if not more so than the Epic Movie, The Western, The Musical and other prestige films which Hollywood, before and after Psycho, still saw as their major bread-and-butter, but by the end of The '60s had become unfashionable and unpopular. Instead of idealized stars, you had actors playing normal people, at least relative to the mainstream of the time.

Genre Turning Point: In addition to marking, for some, the end of The Golden Age of Hollywood, Psycho is heralded by many critics as more or less codifying and defining the new mainstream of American cinema.

Also, in part with the bird motifs, Norman accidentally knocks off one of the pictures of birds in Marion's room, which confirms him as the murderer because he "offed the bird" - which, in British slang, is killing a young woman.

Genius Bonus: All the paintings in the parlor, but most specifically the painting that Norman takes off the wall in order to spy on Marion, are versions of Susannah and the Elders, a biblical story about two lecherous voyeurs who try to take advantage of an unsuspecting young woman while she's bathing.

Evil Is Cool: This pretty much goes without saying, but, Norman Bates is a rather unique horror villain, in which he looks just like an ordinary, well-meaning, unsuspecting man.

Roger Ebert famously called this scene the one thing keeping the film from being perfect.

Ending Fatigue: Norman's psychosis is explained down to the last detail after the story is over.

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The famous repeated minor-9th violin chords during the shower scene were so monstrously effective, they were used again by later generations of horror movie directors in their own films.Composed, once again, by Bernard Herrmann.Overall, the film was nominated for four Oscars, but not Best Picture or Score.Hitchcock himself expressed to Perkins how ashamed he was because Perkins was not nominated.

In 2009, Entertainment Weekly considered that snub to be the second worst Oscar snub of all time. Alfred Hitchcock not winning the Academy Award for Best Director is the most egregious example, but many are utterly shocked that Anthony Perkins was never nominated for his performance as Norman Bates.Subverted as she was killed off rather quickly. Upon first viewing, many audience interpreted Marion as a titular Psycho the way she evaded the police and stowed away in a hotel with the money."I suddenly saw a tender, vulnerable young man you could feel incredibly sorry for."