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 Posted: Fri Oct 19th, 2007 08:41 pm
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 Love Hitchcock films. He was a master at terror - he did not have to rely on the overly gorey images of today's horror films.  The shower scene in Psycho, while considered overly gruesome in 1960, is tame by today's standards. Yet, every time I see it I cringe!  :shock:  It was his talent as a director that makes it work. The lighting, the soundtrack (creepy!), the short cut imagery.  One of the techniques he used to make the viewer feel on edge was allowing the viewer to be a voiceless observer who couldn't do anything to help the next victim.  YOU knew what was coming, YOU could see it and you wanted to jump up in your seat and yell..."GET OUT!  GET OUT NOW!" ...  but all you could do is sit helplessly watching between the fingers of your hands as they tried to cover your eyes.  I feel that way every time I watch Rear Window and Jimmy Stewart is helpless in his wheel chair while Raymond Burr is about to enter his apartment.  Okay, now I know what I'm watching Saturday night...where's the popcorn?