20 Things You Didn't Know About Psycho
18. Walt Disney Refused To Let Hitchcock Film At Disneyland After Seeing The Movie
As popular as Psycho was with audiences and eventually critics, not everybody quite vibed with a style and tone that was, at the time, relatively transgressive, especially for a director of Hitchcock's reputation.
And one such objector was none other than Walt Disney, who after hearing that Hitchcock and his North by Northwest screenwriter Ernest Lehman were planning to make a movie in Disneyland, issued a statement that Hitchcock would never be allowed to shoot on the park's grounds after making such a "disgusting" movie as Psycho.
Though Hitchcock and Lehman toyed with shifting the film's location to a cruise ship, they could never quite crack the story, and so ultimately abandoned it. Boo.