Psycho - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[addison]

Sir Alfred Hitchcock always preferred to film indoors on a soundstage, and only the distant shots of the Bates Mansion were shot outside on the backlot. To accomplish this, and allow for an exterior to interior dolly shot, a second, duplicate, mansion exterior consisting only of the front porch was constructed on the soundstage and the cut from exterior, backlot, set to interior soundstage can clearly be seen as Lila approaches, visible in the difference in the lighting when the camera cuts from her back to the porch and front door once she gets close.

[fred]

Norman Bates is ranked the second greatest villain on AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains.

[ava]

Although Janet Leigh was not bothered by the filming of the famous shower scene, seeing it on film profoundly moved her. She later remarked that it made her realize how vulnerable a woman was in a shower. To the end of her life, she always took baths.

[marc]

Body count: four (if you count Mother, though two earlier victims are mentioned in this movie, and subsequently named in the sequel). Mother, her lover, Marion, and the Detective