Alfred Hitchcock The Father of mystery
 

Alfred Hitchcock's films in my opinion are very good suspenseful mysteries.
I have so many of his films so I will just name six in particular: Jamaica Inn,
Lady Vanishes, Young and Innocent, 39 steps, The Birds, and Pyscho.

Do you think Psycho is the most frightening?

noone did suspense quite like him, north by northwest is my favourite.

Psycho is a pretty interesting one.... at first, you think Marion is the leading lady before she's famously killed off. As far as I know, that wasn't common at all at the time.

Saw only Psycho and the Birds, and both just this year for the first time...and I have to admit, Psycho really got me...I mean everybody, if seen or not, knows the shower scene. And until I saw the movie, I really thought this to be the end scene, a guy stalking a woman and killing her in the end, so I was really surprised of the film and about how the movie was structured. Magnificent.

love love love hitchcock. Grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock presents....I have The Birds barbie :) Psycho was great, they used chocolate syrup for the blood in the shower scene....nobody knew the difference seeing how it was in black and white. Would've loved to have sat down with him over coffee....

Even for color films, I think they should use chocolate syrup.

Hey, Raegan, in your avatar with the Living Dead Girl tatoo, what body part is that on? I haven't been able to figure it out since you joined.

its across her shoulders, i looked closely...(NOT CREEPY) lol

I find it to be the most suspenseful.

Then speak more, warlock: which picture are you convinced is his scariest?

Oh, wait, is that her back, and it's across the back shoulders?

yep

I am afraid to say this but I have never been scared so far in life. I just always seem to know what will be coming around the corner. I am not a toughie, I just never get scared. :[

Just watched North by Northwest, it was awesome.

one of my alltime favorite movies

That & Psycho

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The one Alfred Hitchcock film that I need to get is rear window, still need to get my own copy of North by Northwest.

One of my all time favorite directors. I've watched more of his movies than I can count. Vertigo is my favorite Hitchcock film but so many of them are amazing and great to rewatch. I think Rope with Jimmy Stewart is highly underrated. I watched the Lady Vanishes for the first time on TCM just recently. The first time I watched one of his movies an English teacher in highschool made us watch The Birds. I've been a fan ever since.

I would say Frenzy is more frightening but Psycho is the better film.

Haven't seen frenzy I want to, that and vertigo.

father of mystery?
 

Father of mystery? There are a lot of classic mystery movies that were made before we ever heard of Hitchcock, like The Cabinet and the Canary.
Every time they find an old story which they think is the oldest detective story, somebody finds an older one. It's like trying to trace the origin of baseball.

The only one I've seen is Psycho and bits of The Birds (I really need to sit down and watch the whole movie).

You know what I loved about Normon Bates as a character? Despite being a serial killer I could actually pity him because of his genuine insanity. The real Normon seemed like a kind and awkward guy but his abusive mother was still controlling him even after her death so when he "became" his mother and killed people it was that evil aspect of his own mother's personality that was taking over Normon's sweet and child-like demeanor.

I really couldn't help but feel bad for the poor guy. ::sad::

I mostly hear Hitchcock called the 'Master of Suspense'. He does that well. To a fair extent suspense in a film is due to the film direction (as opposed to the written story, assuming it wasn't an originally a screenplay). Hitchcock didn't write his films, so we certainly give him due credit as a director.

Anyway, Luv, so you've only seen Psycho and bits of the Birds? Cool, you're in for lots of cinema treats with Hitchcock's films. I'd recommend watching 'Rope (1948)'. It was written for stage, and Hitchcock does a good job making it into a film. It's still very stagey, but in a good way. It's suspenseful for sure, but it also has a good message.

My favorite Hitchcock is 'Dial M for Murder (1954)'. It's suspenseful too, but also a mystery, it's a thinker, you get to figure out how and why while you're watching the film, which is fairly rare in film.

A lot of Hitchcock's films have horror elements to them, and I tend to only recommend Dial M, Rope, Psycho and Birds.

Lots of people tend to like his other classics a bit more than I do... I enjoyed all of these, but a bit of a mixed bag: Vertigo, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rear Window, Rebecca, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest.

I know The Birds is one I really want to see so that I can finish watching it. I mean I'm curious as to why those birds started killing people and did anybody make it out alive?

I remember how disturbed I was at the scene of the children running from the school and I think one of the little girls got attacked and killed and all you could see was her broken glasses falling to the ground.

Shocking! ::shocked::

You find out the birds just want more bird feed.

This movie would have been the perfect chance for Normon Bates to go from villain to hero and save the town by turning the birds into taxidermy trophies for his collection. ::wink::

Very true! He could finally setup shop in Hawaii.

Holy shit i forgot all about this thread. Who re-inflated this corpse?

When there is no more room in hell, the threads will walk the earth.

Internal gasses. Pretty sure. ::big grin::