Psycho
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-Media Essay Psycho was a very successful film. Even now parts of the film are still clichéd. For example the non-diagetic sounds of the violins used to provoke fear and terror are often used in other films and are often used in 'spoofs.' A 'Spoof' of a horror film is a hoax of what a horror film should be. There is not one thing about this film that was an accident. Even down to the fact that the film was in black and white. Hitchcock said, "The reason I didn't do this film in colour was because of the blood that was the only reason. With all that blood in the bathtub, I knew very well that I would have the whole sequence cut out if it had been filmed in colour." He even added other more explicit scenes in so that they were cut out and not then shower scene....

