Intertextuality

Intertextuality:

-Similarities between films
-Visual/Audio referencing that reminds the audience of films they have seen in that genre.
-Quite literally, films 'borrow' from eachother, and you, the audience, may recognise certain camera angles, aspects of mise en scene, snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films that you have seen in others.

There are many films that have borrowed aspects from the film 'Psycho'. For example;

What lies Beneath:


What happens?- Man brings a women that is paralysed in the bath tub to drown.
Aspects borrowed from 'Psyco'- Same shower head, same white bath, sound of the shower, same shots used.

Fatal Attraction:

What happens?- Man drowns women and saves the girl that was stabbed, then the women rises from the bath tub and attempts to stab the man but the girl had time to get a gun and shoots the women.
Aspects borrowed from 'Psyco'- Same white bath, same slow motion slide on the wall when dieng, same knife.

The Stepfather:

What happens?- Man chases women then swings knife at women but women stabs first in the neck with the glass that broke off.
Aspects borrowed from 'Psycho'- Same curtain rip, same knife, same position in the bath, same camera shots.