Top Five Movie Screamers
Top Ten Movie Screamers: 10 to 6
5 – Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960)
I don’t recall myself recoiling in horror while watching Janet Leigh’s shower scene in Psycho, but I do recall quite vividly one night long ago when I was showering at an acquaintance’s place and imagined myself facing the same fate as Leigh’s unlucky bank teller. So, I guess that sequence did leave a lasting impression on me. (Needless to say, I was out of that acquaintance’s shower stall and all dried up in a matter of seconds.)
4 – Fay Wray in King Kong (1933), Doctor X (1932), and The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Fay Wray has to be here. To her belongs the title of [...]
by Andre Soares | October 30, 2009
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Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Classic Movies, Edwige Fenech, Fay Wray, Horror Movies, Janet Leigh, Lee Patrick, Psycho, The Sisters, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh, whose shower scene in Psycho has become part of cinema’s pop iconography, died yesterday, Oct. 3, at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 77. In the past year, Leigh had been suffering from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
Though best remembered as the greedy (and unlucky) office worker who gets stabbed a zillion times in the shower in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), a role for which she received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination, Leigh had a remarkable career that spanned more than five decades.
Remarkable indeed, considering that after being discovered by former MGM Queen Norma Shearer while at a ski resort in the late 1940s, Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison [...]
by Andre Soares | October 4, 2004
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Bye Bye Birdie, Classic Movies, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, There Really Was a Hollywood, Tony Curtis, Touch of Evil
