The notorious shower scene in the 1982 comedy, Porky’s. (Photo: 20th Century Fox Film Corp/Courtesy Everett Collection)Alfred Hitchcock’s classic chiller Psycho boasts cinema’s most famous shower scene, but it’s fair to say that Porky’s is a close second. Midway through Bob Clark’s generation-defining high school sex comedy, there’s an extended sequence where the film’s three horny pals — Pee Wee (Dan Monahan), Billy (Mark Herrier) and Tommy (Wyatt Knight) — play peeping Toms, peering into the girls’ locker room while their female classmates are showering. It’s a scene that was advertised heavily in the film’s trailers ahead of its release 40 years ago on March 19, 1982, and was also immortalized on the Porky’s poster and VHS box art.And Herrier tells Yahoo Entertainment that he and his co-stars were well aware that the sequence was going to be central to the film’s marketing campaign. “We knew what picture we were making,” the now 67-year-old actor says with a laugh. “Because of the audacity of the scene, it was clearly going to be a big set-piece in the movie. It would’ve been hard for them to surprise us with anything on the poster. It made sense!”The Porky’s poster immortalized the film’s shower sequence. (Photo: 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection)It should be noted that no actual voyeurism occurred on the Porky’s set. Instead, when Herrier and his co-stars peered through those peepholes, the only thing they saw staring back at them were a few spotlights. “The area that we crawled into was… Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK
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