Possibly Alfred Hitchcocks most famous thriller film is 'Psycho', which was produced and released in 1960, in black and white. The sequence starts in a bathroom, with a woman flushing a piece of paper down a toilet. This raises questions, from the audience, to what the piece of paper was, and why (according to the close up shot of the paper being flushed down the toilet) it seems to be so important. After this, we see the woman enter a shower. This helps calm the audience down and helps to build up the 'scare-factor' of what happens next. As the scene goes on we see, through the showers curtains, the silouette of another character entering the bathroom. This helps add suspense and drama. We are shown the new character approaching the shower through the curtains, and the character ripping the curtains open. This scene is accompanied by a loud, high pitched score, designed to scare the audience. After the new character opens the shower curtains, we are shown the woman being murdered (by being continuously stabbed) through a series of cross-cuts and close-ups. Finally, the murderer quickly leaves the room, and we are shown the woman collapsing to the shower floor.
We must be careful about using Hitchcocks techniques. If we start to copy his films we will end up making our film a horror, which we mustn't do.
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