Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a term used to describe the visual aspects between films. We as the audience will recognise certain camera angles, mise en scene, sound and methods of editing in some films that we have seen in others that we are watching. The films that tend to use this the most are parody and comedy films.


The references made to Hitchcock's cult classic include:

• Anonymous killer
• Pulling of the Shower curtains
• Shadow behind the Shower curtains
• Extreme close up of the victims face. 
• Dramatic Music
• White interior bathroom. (Blood stands out against the white walls)

                        
The Simpsons parodies the blood running through the drain; after Homer is hit on the head by his daughter Maggie the paint he knocks over seeps into the plug hole.

                             Once the victim has being stabbed she slides down the marble white wall in which you can really see the contrast of the blood against the hygienically clean white wall; this is repeated in Fatal Attraction (1987). 

                                    
  After the victims ordeal we get a close up of her immobile face as she lies on the floor; This has being instilled into The Roommate (2011) after Tracy has her belly button ring ripped out by the killer.

The victim grabs onto the curtains desperately in her last moment before dying; The only difference in The Stepfather (2009)  is that its not the victim that is killed but the murderer.