Hitchcock himself had stated that he filmed b&w because he believed that b&w
would be more disturbing to the audience than color for this movie.
At 12:06 PM 6/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Mac writes: Hitchcock shot in black and white because
>>he was afraid that red blood would be too upseting. The same goes for TCM,
>>which has a surprising lack of gore considering the titular murder weapon.
>> -Mac Hume
>Agree that neither PSYCHO nor TEXAS CHAIN SAW are really gory, but rather
>suggest gore nicely; however, your contention that Hitchcock shot in black
>and white because he was afraid that red blood would be too upsetting is
>just plain wrong. He shot PSYCHO in black-and-white because he fully
>financed the film himself (Paramount only distributed it, and later he took
>the property to Universal), and considering the risk, wanted to film it
>cheaply (hence he used members of his TV unit rather than his film unit to
>make it). [It certainly did not upset Hitchcock to show red blood flowing
>out of the eye sockets of a farmer with his eyes pecked out in THE BIRDS].
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