To meet the standards of The Motion Picture Production Code, Hitchcock pulled off some editing tricks that confused censors and frightened audiences.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Dodged The Censors By Tricking Your Senses
In the late '50s, Hollywood filmmakers were still under the thumb of censors, who followed the Hays Code, which was a set of rules that covered everything from costumes to content within a movie. Nudity, sexuality, and violence were big no-nos, which caused Hitchcock to get creative, and a bit rebellious while filming "Psycho." To meet the standards of The Motion Picture Production Code, Hitchcock pulled off some editing tricks that confused censors and frightened audiences.
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