Intertextuality is used when describing a reference towards another film. We've been looking at the famous shower scene from Psycho in order to identify other films that have taken aspects from it.
The film 'What Lies Beneath' uses the least amount of features from Psycho, but still incorporates the shower head looking down along with the sounds of running water and the shower curtains presence.
The film 'Fatal Attraction' uses a similar very powerful scene of the big knife stabbing away at a woman, but not actually being seen having contact with her and the sliding of the head down the wall, with her hair trailing behind. This is very iconic and makes the scene feel more realistic.
Students from Hurtwood House created their own scene in relation to Psycho and named it 'Succumbus'
This is the closest to the film as it shows her stabbing and blood splattering everywhere, but doesn't show contact and has a reference to the eye at the end, but with the guys foot and blood dripping from it. Most iconically they used a big knife and focused on that to show danger. However, they showed us the identity of the killer, which differs from Psycho as they try to hide the killers identity with shadowing.
The film 'The Roommate' was more effective in scaring and thrilling the audience due to its longer tension phrase and the use of constant darkness in the area. They also hid the killers identity although the audience and the victim know who they are already. The use of the showercurtains was very clever as it playted on Psycho's simple use of the curtain being pulled once and the killer being there, whereas in this film she pulls many shower curtains lookign for the killer and waiting for them to jump out at her.
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