Hitchcockian
Hitchcockian films are those made by various filmmakers, with the styles and themes similar to those of Alfred Hitchcock.
Characteristics
Elements considered Hitchcockian include:
- Climactic plot twist.
- The cool platinum blonde.
- The presence of a domineering mother in someone's life
- An innocent man accused.
- Restricting the action to a single setting to increase tension (e.g. Lifeboat, Rear Window, Rope).
- Characters who switch sides and/or who cannot be trusted.
- Tension building through suspense to the point where the audience enjoys seeing the character in a life-threatening situation (e.g. Vertigo, the windmill scene in Foreign Correspondent).
- Average people thrust into strange or dangerous situations (e.g. North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much).
- Bumbling or incompetent authority figures, particularly police officers.
- Use of darkness to symbolize impending doom (dark clothing, shadows, smoke, etc.)
- Strong visual use of famous landmarks (Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Forth Rail Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Albert Hall, British Museum, Piccadilly Circus, etc.)
- Mistaken identity (e.g. North by Northwest, The Wrong Man).
- The use of a staircase as a motif for impending danger or suspense.
- Use of a macguffin plot device (one that remains unexplained (e.g. the microfilm in North by Northwest)).
- Referring to crime for mystery rather than presenting it explicitly (e.g. Dial M for Murder, Alfred Hitchcock Presents).
Notable examples
Some films, or films with scenes, considered Hitchcockian include:
- Gaslight (1944)[1]
- Niagara (1953)[2]
- 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)[3]
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)[4][5]
- Midnight Lace (1960)[6]
- Cape Fear (1962)[7]
- Charade (1963)[8]
- From Russia with Love (1963)[9]
- The Prize (1963)[10]
- Arabesque (1966)[11]
- Wait Until Dark (1967)[12][13]
- Duel (1971)[14]
- Play Misty for Me (1971)[15]
- The Last of Sheila (1973)[16]
- Jaws (1975)[17]
- Last Embrace (1979)[18]
- Blue Velvet (1986)[19]
- Fatal Attraction (1987)[20]
- Arachnophobia (1990)[21]
- Cape Fear (1991)[7]
- Basic Instinct (1992)[22]
- 12 Monkeys (1995)[23][24]
- Bound (1996)[25][26]
- Double Jeopardy (1999)[27]
- What Lies Beneath (2000)[28]
- Mulholland Drive (2001)[29]
- Panic Room (2002)[30]
- Disturbia (2007)[31]
- Side Effects (2013)[32][33][34]
- Not Safe for Work (2014)[35]
- Crimson Peak (2015)[36]
- The Gift (2015)[37]
- Don't Breathe (2016)[38][13]
- Nocturnal Animals (2016)[39]
- A Kind of Murder (2016)[40]
- Split (2016)[41]
- A Simple Favor (2018)[42]
Filmmakers
The following is a list of filmmakers who have directed multiple Hitchcockian films:
Films by country
Australia
France
- The Vanishing (1988)[52][53]
- Love Crime (2010)[54]
- Elle (2016)[55]
- Personal Shopper (2016)[56]
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
- Peeping Tom (1960)[62]
See also
References
- ↑ "Gaslight(s)". 10 July 2012.
- ↑ "Henry Hathaway: 10 essential films".
- ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 2012-11-03. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ↑ "MoMA - Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution". www.moma.org.
- ↑ "Witness for the Prosecution (1957)" – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ "Midnight Lace". Turner Classic Movies.
- 1 2 "Cape Fear: 1991 vs. 1962". 10 June 2012.
- ↑ Greydanus, Steven D. "Charade (1963) - Decent Films - SDG Reviews".
- ↑ Gilligan, Patrick. Alfred Hitchcock: A Light in Darkness and Light. New York City: HarperCollins, 2004. Print.
- ↑ "Prize The (1963) – full review! - Classic Film Guide". www.classicfilmguide.com.
- ↑ Dfordoom (11 September 2014). "Classic Movie Ramblings: Arabesque (1966)".
- ↑ "Wait Until Dark: Audrey Hepburn's Non-Hitchcock Hitchcock Film". www.alfredhitchcockgeek.com.
- 1 2 "Don't Breathe is a ruthlessly efficient, claustrophobic terror machine".
- ↑ "Duel (1971) - Creative Criticism". creativecriticism.net.
- ↑ "Play Misty for Me – Eastwood does Hitchcock". 9 July 2012.
- ↑ "DVD and Blu-ray - Slant Magazine". www.slantmagazine.com.
- ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
- ↑ "Last Embrace - Blu-ray Review - Slant Magazine".
- ↑ "How Blue Velvet reflects the voyeuristic gaze of Rear Window". Lwlies.com. 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
- ↑ Cassidy, Suzanne. "FILM; James Dearden's Latest Fatal Attraction".
- ↑ "18 Creepy Facts about Arachnophobia". 18 July 2015.
- ↑ we're fighting back on Basic Instinct: "Basic Instinct owes a lot to Hitchcock's Vertigo, and the homage is so obvious as to be a bit embarrassing."
- ↑ "…Hitchcockian…" — 12 Monkeys review from Time Out Film Guide Archived 2009-03-08 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ 'A time-travel thriller that dares to compare itself to Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo."… actually pays back its debt to Hitchcock…' — Salon.com Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Schickel, Richard (October 27, 1996). "No Gag". Time. Retrieved May 28, 2007.
- ↑ LaSalle, Mick (October 4, 1996). "Darkly Witty 'Bound' a Taut Noir Caper". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 28, 2007.
- ↑ Ebert, Roger. "Double Jeopardy Movie Review & Film Summary (1999) - Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com.
- ↑ Levy, Emanuel (16 July 2000). "What Lies Beneath".
- ↑ Cwik, Greg (16 April 2015). "9 Great Films Influenced By Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'".
- ↑ Review: 'Panic Room' Screams Hitchcock Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Disturbia (2007) – Deep Focus Review – Movie Reviews, Critical Essays, and Film Analysis".
- ↑ "Side Effects: Making of Hitchcockian Thriller - Emanuel Levy". www.emanuellevy.com.
- ↑ "Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects': A 'Hitchcock mindf---'".
- ↑ "Side Effects is Steven Soderbergh's post-modern Hitchcock thriller". honeycuttshollywood.com.
- ↑ "Not Safe for Work (2014)".
- ↑ Kermode, Mark; critic, Observer film. "Crimson Peak review – an American in fear of the Lake District". The Guardian. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Review: 'The Gift,' a Stalker Thriller That Isn't What It Seems".
- ↑ "[Repost Review] 'Don't Breathe' Is Like Hitchcock On Crack! - Bloody Disgusting". bloody-disgusting.com.
- ↑ "'Nocturnal Animals' Review: Tom Ford's Complex Suspense Thriller Is Worthy Of Hitchcock". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ↑ "'A Kind Of Murder' Brings Hitchcock To The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival [REVIEW]". 22 April 2016.
- ↑ "Split review – James McAvoy is 23 shades of creepy in M Night Shyamalan chiller - Film - The Guardian". Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/09/11/a-simple-favor-review-anna-kendrick-and-blake-lively-make-hitchcock-proud/
- ↑ Rafferty, Terrence. "Blood Not So Simple, From Dario Argento, Italy's Hitchcock".
- ↑ Taylor, Drew (19 March 2013). "Park Chan-wook Talks Differences Between Korean & American Films, How 'Stoker' Fits In With His Filmography & More".
- ↑ "The Criterion Collection". The Criterion Collection.
- ↑ Murray, Noel. "Dive into the virtuosic thrillers of Brian De Palma".
- ↑ Buckmaster, Luke (23 May 2014). "Road Games: rewatching classic Australian films". the Guardian.
- ↑ dave_or_did. "Dave's Film & DVD Reviews: November 2009". Davesfilmreviews.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
- ↑ "Blame - John McDonald". johnmcdonald.net.au.
- 1 2 "Crawl (2011) - News" – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ "Bad Blood To Get Cinema Release". 5 September 2017.
- ↑ Nieporent, Ben. "Movie Review - Vanishing, The (1988) - eFilmCritic". www.efilmcritic.com.
- ↑ Hinson, Hal. "The Vanishing". www.washingtonpost.com.
- ↑ "Love Crime: Film Review".
- ↑ "Review: In 'Elle,' Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim".
- ↑ Bradshaw, Peter (16 May 2016). "Personal Shopper review: Kristen Stewart's psychic spooker is a must-have". the Guardian.
- ↑ 'Unknown' review: Liam Neeson brings gravitas to pulpy Alfred Hithcock-style action thriller, Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News, February 17, 2011
- ↑ The great ‘Unknown’, Lou Lumenick, New York Post, February 18, 2011
- ↑ Unknown review, Roger Ebert, February 16, 2011
- ↑ Neeson wakes up 'Unknown', Steven Rea,The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 2011
- ↑ "'Buried' And Alfred Hitchcock: An Expert's Perspective".
- ↑ Charles Barr, Vertigo (London: BFI, 2002)
Bibliography
- Michael Walker (2005), Hitchcock's motifs, Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 978-90-5356-773-9
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