Psycho 1960 facts
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Having standard showtimes for films was not common until 1960. Previously most films would just play on a loop, and people could enter at any time. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho required that people watch from the beginning to the end and made showtimes more standard.
The blood from the famous shower scene in the 1960 horror film "Psycho" was actually chocolate sauce, because it showed up better on black-and-white film, and had more realistic density than stage blood.
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The main villains of Psycho (1960), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) were all loosely based on the same person: Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein.
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The prototypical American haunted house can trace its roots to a 1925 painting by Edward Hopper entitled "House by the Railroad". The painting inspired not only the design of the Bates Mansion in 1960's Psycho, but the mood of the film as well.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s, Psycho (1960) was the first American film ever to show a flushing toilet
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Walt Disney said he was horrified by "that disgusting [1960] movie Psycho" that he explicitly blacklisted Alfred Hitchcock from filming any movies at Disneyland
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Walt Disney banned Alfred Hitchcock from filming at Disneyland after viewing the 1960 film 'Psycho', saying Hitchcock made "that disgusting movie". Hitchcock was to shoot a thriller film "The Blind Man" with a few main scenes taking place at the park, but cancelled it after Disney's ban.
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The actress that portrayed Marion Crane, in the renowned 1960 film Psycho, Janet Leigh, is the mother of actress Jamie Leigh Curtis
