Happiness, for Hitchcock, is a traumatized audience. "My main satisfaction," he tells Truffaut, "is that the film had an effect on the audience....I don't care about the subject matter; I don't care about the acting, but I do care about...all of the technical ingredients that made the audience scream." In another interview he tells Robin Wood, "You have to remember that Psycho is a film made with quite a sense of amusement on my part. To me it's a fun picture." If so, it remains one of the most disturbing fun pictures ever made. The famous forty-five second shower sequence, which took seven days to shoot and seventy camera set-ups, retains its place in film history as the most traumatic sudden eruption of violence since the eye-slashing sequence in Un Chien Andalou. Hitchcock's prying camera movements and point-of-view shots in Psycho continually remind the viewer of the voyeuristic pleasure at the core of cinematic spectatorship, only to then shock us with the horror of what we wanted so much to see. Psycho encourages meditation not just on Hitchcock's perverse pleasure in terror, but also our own. -Marilyn Fabe