1. Janet Leigh – Pyscho
via curitibainenglish.com.br
It’s become a movie staple as to how Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece is a breakthrough thriller that plays with audience expectations and provides a great series of twists. But it’s forgotten the huge risk the director was taking with his big gambit. That was to cast Janet Leigh, a major star of the time, and promote her as the lead in all the trailers and posters. Viewers thus naturally assumed that she was the central character as the secretary fleeing with a briefcase of money and the movie would follow her journey. She stops at a hotel run by a creepy clerk (Anthony Perkins) and apparently just a brief stop on her journey.
And then comes the now iconic scene where she’s stabbed to death in the shower, the blade lunging forward as she screams to that infamous musical cue, the blood pouring down the drain around her. Suddenly, the entire movie is shifted to become a study of one man’s madness and we realize Leigh was just the window dressing. It’s truly amazing and a daring move to kill the big female lead not even halfway through the movie. But it paid off by helping the movie turn into a hit and a classic in so many ways to redefine the horror genre forever.
CLICK HERE to join our BBM Channel for faster updates
TOP POSTS YESTERDAY
- 20 celebrities you never knew had braces (With Pictures)
- 8 foods that keep the vagina healthy and happy – See this now!
- 10 celebs that will become billionaires by 30
- The 15 most dangerous cities in the world for 2015 – #1 is so bad! (With Pics)
- Top Nigerian celebrities that are married to real men (With Pictures)
- 10 shocking pictures of celebrities without photoshop.
- 10 Nigerian male celebrities who are notorious womanizers (With Pictures)
- Ghanaian celebrities and their new cars – See who’s got the most expensive (With Pictures)
- 15 celebs with artificial boobs (Before and after pictures)
- See Nigeria’s top 10 hottest celebrity couples ever (With Photos)
- 5 top politicians who were embarrassingly caught sleeping in public (With Photos)
- The 10 most embarrassing celebrity Social Media feuds – See how & why it happened! (+Pics)
Discussion about this post