Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Spook spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock

There have been many memorable film directors in history – Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Orson Welles, etc. but the most famous and arguably the best of them all is none other than Alfred Hitchcock, director of such masterpieces as Psycho, North by Northwest, The Birds, and others. Want to know more about this heavyweight champion filmmaker? Read on…
  • Known as: The master of suspense and the most famous movie director in history
  • Phobias: Heights, birds, policemen, breaking another director’s chair
  • Catch phrases: “Good evening,” “Make the audience suffer as much as possible,” “Take a cold shower.”
  • Words that sum him up: Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, cameo, fatso