20 Things You Didn't Know About Psycho

20. The Shower Scene Took A Week To Film

Despite Psycho's focal shower scene only accounting for roughly three minutes of the film's 109-minute runtime, Hitchcock blocked out an entire week of his shooting schedule to film it, and considering that it became the project's immediately iconic centerpiece, it was probably just as well.

Given that Janet Leigh spent three weeks filming her role as Marion Crane, the shower scene alone accounts for a whole one-third of her time working on the movie.

This is largely due to the technically complex and precise nature of the scene, which required 78 different camera set-ups and 52 cuts. But of course, the end result absolutely speaks for itself and entirely justify's the director's intense labouring over it.