In media, intertextuality is when certain media products influence other media products. Intertextuality is when films or even TV programmes use the same ideas and perhaps camera shots to remind the audience of a certain moment or make them feel a certain way.
An extremely popular one that is used in many films is the woman that is in the shower and she gets attacked whilst in the shower. This idea originnaly came from the Alfred Hitchcock film; Pyscho. This idea was then borrowed by numerous films and has become an iconic scene in many horror and thriller films. A film that used this idea of the woman in the shower was 'Fatal Attraction'.
The image on the left was taken from the movie Pyscho which was the original movie that came up with this idea. The image on the right shows the exact same scene in Fatal Attraction. Both women are put against white tiles which contrasts massively with the fact that there is red blood in the scene.
These two images are also from both these films. Again, the bottom one is the original and we came see that the the top image is extremely similar to the bottom one. Which means the idea was again borrowed when they decided to use a close up of the woman's feet.
Again these two images are incredibly similar. This is because they has 'borrowed' this idea from Pyscho and have tried to make it their own in a certain way. By seeing this scene, we will be reminded of Pyscho and we will know that something bad is happening. It will cause the audience to feel the same way over a nd over again, evern though they know what is going to happen. The shot types are also used to make this even more effective. 
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