A closer look
Alfred Hitchcock used Bosco chocolate syrup to simulate blood in the infamous shower scene of his 1960 thriller Psycho because it showed up better than fake blood on black-and-white film. Nothing captures the sheer terror of being brutally murdered in a secluded motel quite like being doused in an ice cream sundae topping. Audiences were completely traumatized by the sequence, screaming in theaters while blissfully unaware that they were watching a woman get aggressively marinated in a popular dessert condiment. It makes you wonder how many cinematic masterpieces are just the result of a frustrated director raiding the studio cafeteria because the actual special effects department failed to deliver
