In media, intertextuality refers to the use of media products influencing other media products, the shaping of some (for example) TV episodes or movies. It is a way of referencing to other films, they literally 'borrow' camera angles and shots to re-inact or remake a scene from a famously known movie.
A very common TV series that does this is The Simpsons. In some episodes they can refer to known movies to re-inact the scene to give it a different meaning, this is called Pastiche and parody which are both examples or intertextuality.
This the famous shower scene from Psycho, and comparison below of Fatal Attraction. The camera angles, mise-en-scene, performance, sound and editing were all adapted to the situation of each story line that have decided to use a shower scene like the one in Psycho.
Mid shots of the woman dying
Mid shot of feet
Mid shot of womans face
Also the mise-en scene is a fully white bathroom that contrasts to the blood when the woman is killed. The screaming and slashing sounds of the knife when it hits, and the performance of the woman when dying, they both die a slow death by first getting stabbed/shot against the white wall, blood comes down, and then finally sliding down the wall at a slow pace.
As we want our thriller to be similar to horror/thrillers, we would maybe like to incorporate some aspects of different scenes in other thriller movies.
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