Definition: intertextuality is a term to describe the visual referencing between films, quite literally, films 'borrow' from each other, and you, the audience, may recognise certain camera angles, aspects of mise en scene, snippets of sound or methods of editing in some films that you have seen in others.
there are many different references by way of intertextuality in thriller movies. if you take for example the classic shower scene from Alfred Hitchcocks psycho (1960) the scene depicts a 'clinically' clean bathroom (pure white) and then the addition of blood against such a bright background to make it stand out. it also contains the classic shower curtain and blood & water draining which then fades into the dead eye of the victim.
fatal attraction mimics this infamous scene perfectly by setting it in a clinically white bathroom, the knife with blood, the shower curtain, the way in which the shots are taken of the stabbing with many jump cuts and a high angle shot of the victim in the bathtub/shower.
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