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• On the Universal DVD, Norman can be heard (not seen) screaming "I am Norma Bates!" as Sam Loomis rushes in to stop him from murdering Lila. The scream is not present in at least some release prints.
  
  
• For its original UK cinema release the shower scene suffered cuts by the BBFC. All later video/DVD releases were fully uncut and the certificate lowered to '15'.
  
  
• A shot of Marion removing her black bra before her shower was removed by the U.S. censors while the scene remained intact in the U.K.
  
  
• Psycho was cut 1 minute and 11 seconds by Norwegian censors before it's cinema release in 1960, in 1975 the movie was released uncut for the first time after 15 years!
  
  
• Hitchcock hesitated in editing a superimposition of Norman and Mother's skull in the closing shot. Eventually only some copies featured the trick by then.
  
  
• When "Psycho" appeared in syndication on TV stations such as WOR-TV, sometimes a print was shown that completely excised the portion of the movie where Marion tries to "exchange" her car, cutting from when she gets sleepy and pulls over for a nap to when she pulls into the Bate Motel.
  
  
• British and New Zealand censors originally cut the shot of Norman washing the blood off his hands during the shower clean-up scene.
  
  

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