#16: MYTH: Hitchcock Was Obsessed With Gore
MYTH: Hitchcock loved gore. TRUTH: His greatest shocks usually depend on anticipation, implication, editing, sound, and what viewers imagine. Psycho’s shower murder feels extraordinarily graphic, yet the knife never visibly plunges into Janet Leigh’s body, and the black-and-white blood effect was created with chocolate syrup. Hitchcock certainly pushed screen violence, especially later in his career, but he understood that suggestion could be more disturbing than anatomy. His specialty was making audiences mentally complete violence themselves.
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