10 Unnecessary Horror Movie Details You NEED To Know

Have you ever been sat up in bed late at night with the mysteries of the world ruminating on your mind with no concrete answers? Who built the pyramids? Did the city of Atlantis ever actually exist? When was the first time people saw a toilet flush on film? Oh wait, we do have an answer for that last one, actually.

It was Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho in which such a specific instance occurs, and apparently when people aren't getting stabbed in showers, they're getting their waste drained for the entire world to see. The knife going through the unsuspecting Janet Leigh is notably more preferable to watching someone's dinner being transmuted into a bowel incinerating, proverbial ring of fire. Or it would be if the scene was more dedicated to showing this than it actually is.

Thankfully, the interaction with the toilet is extremely limited as you only see the whirlpool of water spinning away - which may or may not be counter-clockwise despite what The Simpsons had to say about it - whisking away, in a soothingly mesmeric way.

Which is essentially a fancy way of saying that someone had a poo and flushed it.