Psycho 'shower scene' Analysis

The Psycho  film was made in 1960's, so the film is black and white. Alothugh it had little colour there is the famous 'shower scene' where the audience feel terror from watching it. The scene begins with the non-diegetic sound of some soft tuned melody. We can know to expect something to happen as we focus on this one person in the scene but the audience can feel the tension rising. We come to a mid shot of her in the shower washing herself. Behind her we can see the shower curtain. We know that she expects she is alone, which the audience also do, but through the shower curtain we see the blurred figure of a person there which builds up the tension. As the shadow nears the shower curtain, we see him pull back the curtain quickly and using a low camera shot to make him seem dominant and powerful, we can see the dark figure of him with his knife raised. But what makes this scene even more terrifying is the high pitched music which is associated with horror films. After the attacker stabs her several times, we can see her attempt to fight back even though its pointless. We see the blood run through the water, which makes the audience feel a bit tense of what has happened and as the attacker leaves, we continue to hear the high pitched music andwe can see the hand of the woman against the wall slowly slide down, this symbolises her losing life from being stabbed several times.  As she desperately tries to cling onto life, she grabs on the shower curtain but then collapses from lack of blood, we see the water continue to run with her blood, which makes us feel sick and startled by what has just happened.  Lastly we come to the shot of her lifeless eye, which zooms out to show her face as the camera takes the attention elsewhere.
This Psycho film really makes the audience feel tense the whole way through, and as the tension builds we know something is about to happen which makes it even more startling when it does