Alfred HitchcockHitchcock, the DudeWhat led Hitchcock to make a film about hating your mother, loving your mother, and being generally messed up about your mother? Well, you can't say for sure, but...

Joseph StefanoHitchcock took one look at Robert Bloch's 1959 novel Psycho and screamed in panic and/or joy. This full of blood and gore and sex, he said to himself. That's the movie for me!Hitchcoc...

Shamley ProductionsParamount Pictures looked at Psycho and said, "Blech." (That's not a direct quote.)Hitchcock had a long-term relationship with Paramount in the late 1950's, so he tried to get th...

Hitchcock-ianHitchcock is so Hitchcock that there's nothing to call him but… Hitchcock-ian.Hitchcock films are practically their own genre. The director worked within the old Hollywood studio sys...

Herm and HitchHitchcock is maybe the most famous English-language director ever to pick up a movie camera and film someone being horribly murdered. And Bernard Hermann was (during his heyday) the m...

After more than half a century, fandoms tend to have arthritis and bad backs and less energy than they used to. Psycho was very popular when it came out, but that was over fifty years ago. Instead...