ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES

Going to buy Alfred Hitchcock movies DVDs? Alfred Hitchcock movies, or Hitch’s movies, are full of things that are aberrant and distasteful to the human eye – murder, blood, fear, suspense, and surprise all inflicted on innocent victims on the screen and, truly speaking, the viewers in the theater. He perhaps played on the one dominant psychological factor of the human mind - fear. Or rather, the anticipation of it, as he himself said. His most famous movie – Psycho – brought the abnormal to the fore in a most dramatic form one could imagine – a man thinking he was his mother! Hitchcock himself considered the movie as having a comical side to it. Alfred hitchcock movies are best described as a series of special effects (Graham Greene.) He made 53 full-length films in his career. For buying his DVDs consult our buy dvd page.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES - FAVORITES Janet Leigh's shower scene from Psycho was named the best death in screen history by Total Film magazine. His own personal favorite was Shadow of a Doubt (1943) with Teresa Wright as a young woman who feared her uncle might be a killer. The special effects of Birds - mass bird attacks were shown on children and adults using real birds and props. Buy a Hitchcock DVD

ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES - TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS Hitchcock zoom – first used in Vertigo. A movie without cuts – Rope (1948) – combines 10-minute takes. His first color film. Deceptive flashback – Stage Fright (1950) – deceives the audience with the flashback. Real town shooting of Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Sound effects – the ‘knife’ scene in Blackmail. Used television crew to shoot Psycho (1960) for real life effects. Dream sequence created by a psychoanalyst in Spellbound Single set film - Lifeboat

"I'm a philanthropist: I give people what they want. People love being horrified, terrified."
- Sir Alfred Hitchcock