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Psycho named UK’s top movie shower scene

Posted by Team Boxwish 7 months ago

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Here at Boxwish we love that movies can inspire you to try new things. Right now many US cinema-goers are having a go at cooking the recipes of celebrity cook Julia Child thank to the new movie Julie and Julia, but the message can work both ways – sometimes cinema can put you off certain things. Remember how Jaws scared you from swimming in the sea or how Enduring Love had you quaking at the thought of hot air balloon trips? Well, Psycho and its iconic shower scene must surely be one of the most powerful film deterrents (hands up who took a bath rather than a shower after watching Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) kill Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in his Bates Motel bathroom?) and the potent power of this horrifying visual has helped it secure the number one spot in a new poll to find the most memorable movie shower scene.

Of course not all watery rubdowns feature killers dressed up as their mothers, but the Psycho one has lived long in the memory, the Hitchcock classic being nearly 50 years old. In the survey conducted by DIY chain B & Q which quizzed over 3,000 movie fans, Psycho beat the likes of Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult in which Priscilla Presley’s shower singing distracts a hitman sent to kill her and the similarly silly 80s favourite Porky’s. The top five is rounded out by Sid James and Barbara Windsor in British comedy classic Carry On Abroad and Matthew Broderick’s shampoo mohawk in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

The rest of the top ten shapes up like this: 6. Starship Troopers, 7. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 8. Dressed To Kill, 9. The Eye and 10. M.A.S.H. What no room for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Goldie Hawn’s shower “with a cockroach from Hell” in Bird on a Wire or Tim Curry discovering another ‘door handle’ only to turn on the shower in Clue?

’’It’s interesting to see just how many memorable shower scenes there have been in movie history,” commented a spokesperson for B & Q, “and none more so than the famous scene with Janet Leigh in Psycho. Shower scenes can be the focal point for horror, comedy or intimacy, but everyone is familiar with the tension and music in that infamous black and white film clip.”

Yes, yes, we remember it well, let’s not dwell on it. It’s just too warm to take baths at the moment!

[via Telegraph.co.uk]

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