It took Hitchcock all of three minutes to forever change the rules of how the thriller game is played and to deeply shake the security and naïve trust of the moviegoing public. Marion Crane’s legendary murder in Psycho was originally just a malicious joke by the wily director. For audiences of the time, however, it felt like an ice cold shower and has proved to this day to be the revolutionary act nonpareil that churned the calm waters of commercial cinema. Having been spared the original shock, later generations admire the scene with detachment, but that merely fosters unabated fascination. Fueled by geek-like obsession, the documentary essay 78/52 comes at this turning point in film history from multiple perspectives – from backstage stories and the recollections of various filmmakers to in-depth investigations and academic analyses. Each of the scene’s 52 shots has a story to tell, and in the collage of viewpoints we appreciate the oft-seen and imitated scene as a work of brilliant sophistication and unsuspected visual poetry, with a heretical bent that sees Marion’s death accompanied by the death of God.