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Was There A Deadly Shower Scene?


I have a vague childhood image of a woman in a shower, then a evil looking man in a cape sneaks into the bathroom and (I guess) turns on the gas(or something). She passes out, then a couple minutes later another man saves her by carrying her out into fresh air. I saw this scene in the early 70's on the ABC-TV movie. It scared the crap out of me, I went back to taking baths for awhile. ABC-TV used the same movie intros until the 1980's, I alwasys associated them with that scene. Is this the movie I remember?

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I have no way of knowing how film literate you are or how old you might be so.....


Could have been Hitchcock's "Psycho" There was a harrowing shower/ death scene in that one. Norman's Mother sneaks into Janet Leigh's room and into her bathroom with a knife gripped in his hand. She stands there as the audience yells to the lady in the shower to please take notice that there's some old woman holding up a big killing knife right outside the shower. Unfortunately, Janet's double doesn't hear us.. The old woman stabs the naked victim several times in a fit of jealous rage, stabbing her through the curtain and one on one. (scene change) Tony Perkins as Norman Bates, returns to the same bathroom only to find our heroine... well repentent thief actually, dead in the shower. He screams "Mother Mother Why" and quickly but throughly scrubs all the blood off everything, He wraps up the victim in the shower curtain and carries her out into the FREsH AIR. (only she can't breathe it) he puts her into the trunk of his waiting car. He drives out to the local swamp, gets out and pushes his car into the swamp. Norman and the audience begin waiting to see if the muddy green water's deep enough to cover the car. The car stops two-thirds of the way down and we all stop quick and start waiting and hoping along with Norman that the car will be swallowed up. Seconds go by like hours.... then.... it..... finally..... disappears. We all breathe a sigh of relief and grin along with Norman as we watch the last of his old car hood disappears under the swamp mud with a couple of girgles and a whooshing sound. Norman smiles, we smile too ... Everybody's happy.. I mean "relieved"! Our Boy Norman has successfully hidden the evidence once again! Norman goes back to chomping on his peanuts and he rest of us wonder why he's not offering us any delicious peanuts to pop into our victorious mouths (we've all shared so much tonite). I always have my own poppers on hand when I watch Psycho so that I can fully enjoy the guilty pleaasure along with our boy Norman. Oh Norman... Norman wouldn't hurt a fly but he's selfish with his peanuts!

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No, wasn't Psycho. I'm 40, and have seen the Psycho clip a million times. The scene I'm thinking of wasn't graphically violent. The woman didn't die either.

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Anyway It's her car that got whooshed, I don't think Norman has one.

They played Joan Crawford's "Strait-Jacket" and "Berserk" back to back last night on TCM. I didn't see a shower scene in either. I wasn't in the room the whole time, coulda missed it. If there was one, it was probably in Strait-Jacket.

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A deadly showe scene occurs in the Crawford movie "I Saw What you Did", but ithe scene did not feature Crawford.

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Certain? Do you remember any more of it? It's way out of print, If I'm going to track it down I want to be sure it's what I'm looking for. I read the imdb synopsis and doesn't sound familiar. Was it even a good movie? All I have is a snap shot in my head of the scene described. Thanks for the lead.

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It was a black and white William Castle thriller involving a girl and her friend making prank phone calls while babysitting the girl's sister. Inadvertently, the two phone a man who had just killed his wife (in the shower). When they say "I saw what you di, and I know who you are..." It freaks him out.

Out of curiosity, the girls look up the man's address and go to his house. Joan, the woman who is after him, confronts the two and steals the registration from the steeping wheel of their car (remember when that's where they were kept?).

The rest is just a typical scary movie. It is a great deal of fun if you and your friend have had a couple of drinks and are in the mood. The funky score is great.

I have it on VHS, but I'm not sure if it's on DVD.

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The OP is talking about the 1976 ABC TV-Movie "Death at Love House" starring Robert Wagner and Kate Jackson. It has been released on DVD.

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