Tag: Alfred Hitchcock

Last chance: Alfred Hitchcock’s original ‘Psycho’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, Mother's Day, Mystery, National Film Registry, Peacock, suspense, SVOD, thriller 11/20/202212/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

It may seem like cliché now but ‘Psycho’ was the granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho-thrillers and thrilled audiences with its shocking twists and tawdry details.

Alfred Hitchcock directs Janet Leigh on the set of the 1960 film 'Psycho' from the documentary by Alexandre O. Philippe

’78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene’ – exploring ‘Psycho’ on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Documentary, DVD, horror, Hulu, movies about movies, SVOD, thriller 07/13/202107/13/2021 Sean Axmaker

The title of 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017), a documentary on the legendary sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1961 classic Psycho, refers to the 78 camera set-ups and 52 cuts in the three-minute scene, an astounding attention to detail to a brief sequence that shocked American audiences with transgressions suggested but not actually shown on screen. […]

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers on a Train’

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, Netflix, suspense, SVOD, thriller 03/07/201912/15/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Strangers on a Train (1951) is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s undisputed masterpieces, a thriller of demented wish fulfillment turned into a waking nightmare that turns on a chance meeting. Demented playboy Bruno (Robert Walker, whose insidious insincerity is unsettling from his first scene) meets champion tennis player Guy (Farley Granger). Bruno knows that Guy has […]

Blu-ray: ‘Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection’ on Universal

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, suspense 11/29/201711/30/2017 Sean Axmaker

Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu-ray) – The box set of 15 Alfred Hitchcock pictures made between 1942 and 1976 (featuring films from Paramount, Warner Bros, and MGM as well as Universal Studios) expands on the 2012 Blu-ray box set Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection with two bonus DVDs highlighting Hitchcock’s […]