In New 78/52 Clip Guillermo Del Toro Talks The ‘Psycho’ Shower Scene’

Love him or hate him Alfred Hitchcock is a Master Of Cinema who highly influenced how movies look today. Alexandre O. Phillipe‘s 78/52 takes probably Hitchcock’s most iconic movie Psycho and the shower scene.

Dogwoof has sent us a brand new clip in which we hear several well-known faces especially Guillermo Del Toro. See him talk about that unprecedented iconic shower scene from Psycho, the ‘Man behind the Curtain’, and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.A movie in the Hands Of A Master.

“If PSYCHO changed the way people shower, it’s safe to say that after watching 78/52, you will never look at the shower scene the same way again,” states Phillipe.

An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, the ‘Man behind the Curtain’, and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema. 78/52 references the number of set-ups (78) and the number of cuts (52) in the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO. One entire week out of the four weeks scheduled to shoot PSYCHO — a full quarter of the film’s production schedule — was dedicated to the infamous shower scene.

Featuring interviews with Walter Murch, Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Osgood Perkins, Danny Elfman, Eli Roth, Elijah Wood, Bret Easton Ellis, Marli Renfro – Body double for Janet Leigh in PSYCHO, Karyn Kusama, Neil Marshall, Richard Stanley and much more.

78/52 is been released by Dogwoof in the UK and Ireland from 3rd November (Limited Cinema).