Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a word to describe the visual referencing between films. This may be useful because the audience may recognise certain camera angles, mise en scene, sound or editing that have been already used in other films they might have seen.

There are a lot of borrowed aspects from Psycho to make The film 'The Stepfather'  a good thriller. It has successfully taken scenes and shots from the original Psycho where it is known worldwide for inventing conventions that in modern day seem to be normal into creating an original thriller.

                                Intertextuality Example: Psycho and The Stepfather

This is the scene when the man gets killed in the shower  and he slowly rips the shower curtains showing tha he is dying.

This same scene appeared in Psycho when the women was stabbed to death and also to show that he is dying he rips the shower curtains.