Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a term to describe the visual referencing between films. Quite literally, films 'borrow' from each other, and you, the audience, may recognize certain camera angles, aspects of mise en scene, snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films that you have seen before.

Psycho

Psycho became extremely iconic for its use of camera shots. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it has since become the leader to numbers of films replicating the same shots, for example..


What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath has taken the shower head and kept it in frame just long enough to get the essence of Psycho and as the shower is running we get feeling throughout the scene.


Fatal Attraction

This scene kind of has the essence of psycho, but instead of the woman getting murdered in the shower (which happens later on in this scene) the man jumps out from the bath with those iconic shower curtains in the bathroom and tries to disarm the crazy woman holding the knife. So it has elements of psycho;

• A Bathroom
• A Knife
• A Death

The Room Mate

This scene from The Roommate also had abit of everything. It started with the shot of the shower head and the running water, then the door handle opening, the shot of the woman unaware of anything wrong, then silhouette of the intruder and then the shower curtain ripping.
All these features mirror Psycho.