Intertexuality

Intertexaulity is a term used to describe when films "borrow" aspects of different films and interpret it into their own film. We watch a clip of Pyscho and then watched 4 other clips from different films and recognised aspects that were "borrowed" from Pyscho.

What Lies beneath

- Women that is paralysed and then drowned.

Aspects borrowed from Pyscho are
-The shower head
-A female victim in the bathtub
-The same simple white plain curtain
-The sound of the shower in the background is also the same.

Fatal Attraction

A women falls in love with a man whose married. This obsession becomes "fatal" as she then tries to kill his wife. The husband comes to the rescue and drowns the women, when the women awakes she is then shot by the wife.

Aspects borrowed from Pyscho are
- The knife used. The type of knife use is almost identical to the one used in Pyscho.
                                     - When the women is shot she slides down the bathroom tiles the same way the women in Pyscho died.
                                     - White bathtub
                                     -Same plain white shower curtain
                                     - Bathrobe worn by the wife is similar to the one worn by the women in Pyscho.

                                     The Stepfather
                                   
                                     Aspects borrowed from Pyscho
                                     -The way in which the shower curtains falls off its hooks is similar to Pyscho
                                    - The sliding on the bathroom riles when dying
                                    -The same knife is used again
                                    - White tiles, bathtub and shower curtain are the same.