The sickening sound of a knife plunging into flesh is actually a melon being stabbed.

Film/Series: Psycho

Category: Trivia Fact

Timestamp: 00:47:20

Alfred Hitchcock needed a visceral, realistic sound for the iconic shower scene without actually hurting anyone. The foley artists discovered that violently stabbing a Casaba melon created the perfect, sickening "thwack" of a knife hitting human flesh. This simple fruit became the source of the most famous murder sound in cinema history.

The sickening sound of a knife plunging into flesh is actually a melon being stabbed. in Psycho

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