{"id":12056,"date":"2025-07-24T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12056"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:52:40","slug":"how-psychos-terrifying-music-changed-film-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=12056","title":{"rendered":"How Psycho&#8217;s terrifying music changed film forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Particularly key is the knives-edge music that plays when blonde bombshell Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), not long after checking in to the Bates Motel, is attacked through a shower curtain by a shadowy killer, who later turns out to be the motel&#8217;s owner, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), dressed up as his dead mother. &#8220;That music is everything,&#8221; says Rachel Zeffira, a film composer and one half of art-folk duo Cat&#8217;s Eyes. &#8220;It&#8217;s the birds, it&#8217;s the bees, and it&#8217;s the voices in the back of your head.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particularly key is the knives-edge music that plays when blonde bombshell Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), not long after checking in to the Bates Motel, is attacked through a shower curtain by a shadowy killer, who later turns out to be the motel&#8217;s owner, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), dressed up as his dead mother. &#8220;That music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1442,1171,686,5609,2939],"class_list":{"0":"post-12056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-changed","9":"tag-film","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-psychos","12":"tag-terrifying"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}