![]() So far, our class has watched The Lady Vanishes (1938), Strangers on a Train (1951), and Shadow of a Doubt (1943). During these first few days of class, Professor George Butte and the students in his “Films of Alfred Hitchcock” course have begun to explore an array of potential answers. I’m certainly not the first or only person to ask this question. ![]() Why, I wondered, did this apparently simple murder scene – even after my father assured me that the “blood” was really only chocolate sauce – resonate with me to such an irrevocable degree? Eventually, my younger sister agreed to sit outside the bathroom door and “keep watch” until I emerged, paranoid and dripping wet. ![]() I distinctly recall being too terrified to shower for several days. But sounds of slicing and a shrieking Janet Leigh haunted me for weeks. I must have been at most ten years old, but I still remember every frame of the famous Psycho shower scene as if I saw it yesterday. My first experience with Alfred Hitchcock took place – all too early, perhaps – in the proverbial springtime of my life.
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