Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: “Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes.” From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, […]
Rear Window
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. After breaking his leg photographing a racetrack accident, professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies (James Stewart) is confined in his Greenwich Village apartment, using a wheelchair while he recuperates. His rear window looks out onto […]
When a Stranger Calls
The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the best known being Le Manoir du diable, which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film. Since the beginning of horror flicks, there has probably never been a more […]
Body Double
A young actor’s obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences. Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) is a struggling actor who has lost his role in a low budget Vampire B movie after his claustrophobia thwarts shooting. He discovers his girlfriend cheating on him, […]