YMMV / Hitchcock

• Hilarious in Hindsight: The movie shows a great deal of what Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with in the censorship from the MPPC making Psycho as The Hays Code was still in effect at this time but ended just eight years later.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Ed Gein casually murdering his older brother Henry for cursing their dead mother and Ed's closeness to her by whacking him over the head with his shovel — then he continues to dig.
  • Hitchcock's hallucinatory nightmares about Ed Gein and how Ed hid the dead bodies of his murder victims. One woman is found butchered to pieces inside a shower filled with her blood. This causes Hitchcock to spring from his sleep questioning his work.
  • Hitchcock "perfecting" the shower scene. Angry, he takes the knife and does it himself with his demonstration of how the murder should look. Not helping is that we see it from first-person view as he "stabs" at Janet, frightening her. Hitchcock also fantasizes that he's pulling back the shower curtain and murdering the movie corporation executives and his wife Alma's (presumed) lover in the shower. All of this psychological torture just to get the right acting and the right shot for his movie. By the time it's all over, Janet is left visibly shaken and trembling.
  • Hitchcock hallucinates seeing Ed Gein just before collapsing due to illness brought about from much stress in his work.
  • The disturbing sexual fantasies Hitchcock torments Janet with as they film the car scenes.
  • The graphic murder photos Hitchcock shows around at a party. Some of them look as if they're about to throw up from what they're looking at.
• Squick: Ed Gein lying in bed cradling his dead mother's corpse in a flashback.