American Psycho

Suspense Suspenseful situations are thrills that base jumpers, roller coaster fanatics, and movie enthusiasts all possess. It is this suspense that they all seek, and it is especially common in Alfred Hitchcock’s films in which the most enticing moments are lurking around the corner. Specifically in Strangers on the Train, Hitchcock uniquely rolls out the drama by both expanding and contracting the audience’s knowledge as well as the characters’ knowledge. More precisely yet, Hitchcock alludes…

Psycho is a classic among the entire horror movie genre with many memorable iconic scenes by the only Alfred Hitchcock in the history of Cinema. Tense, horrific and a superb lesson in filmmaking, it offers complex characters and revealing dialogue with a huge regard for details. Psycho also features glorious use of mise-en-scene, a fancy French term for all of the visual elements in the frame used to infer meaning. Hitchcock famously uses this concept in the parlor scene, where Marion and Norman…

Films can cause an array of emotions to stir up within a person. The many different genres of film can allow a person to choose what they want to feel while watching. The most popular film genre when searched is comedy. Within that there can be romantic comedy, action comedy, suspenseful comedy and more. The number of films that one can enjoy is endless. Each genre contains a handful of emotions that the viewer will be feeling. The genre that can be described as both loved and hated is the…

Ames Room What is an Ames room? An Ames Room is a room that is used to create a visual illusion due to its slanted figure. While the room gives an appearance of a square-shaped from the viewers’ observation, it actually has a trapezoid shape. This effect works by developing a distorted room to create the illusion of a intense modification in its size. The illusion that is projected leads the observer to believe that the two objects that are in the same depth of area, when in reality the subject…

The classic thriller, suspense film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock is one of his greatest masterpieces. In a small Greenwich Village apartment, a newspaper photographer with a casted leg takes frequent views of the surrounding Lower East Side apartment buildings, lower courtyard and garden. With a suspicion about one of his neighbors, Jeff believes that one neighbor inparticular is a murder, then decides to solve the mystery himself. With a combination of thriller, action and mystery,…

Our beloved “Master of Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock, has directed many thriving movies such as Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, and more. Hence his title “Master of Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock had successfully implemented a sense of exciting anticipation in his movies, leading to his current, and still growing, popularity. The way one could identify a masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock is by recognizing the elements he uses most. Suspense might be the most discerned element in his movies, however,…

Hitchcock’s film generates the suspense and curiosity in Psycho. He demonstrates in various and specific ways that we would not expect to happen. It has happened to be one of the biggest hits ever in the 60’s. He has been one of the first people to introduce many things in the film industry, especially the toilet scene. In a way Hitchcock makes us want more and it gets us to anticipate and to expect for more things to happen. Alfred Hitchcock turns our stomachs upside down and leaves us wanting…

Evan Prunty 1 Outline Introduction Hitchcock's Themes Symbolism Hitchcock and David Fincher Use in Their Films Hitchcock's films directly influenced and relate to David Fincher's Gone Girl Conclusion Evan Prunty Professor Kimberly Neuendorf COM 320 15 October 2015 Introduction David Fincher?s modern masterpiece of cinema Gone Girl premiered around this time last year. Around that time, I was in COM 221 an intro to film class that is offered at CSU. In the class…

When Psycho was released in 1960, it quickly became of the most memorable and notorious films in cinema history. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on a book by Robert Bloche, the movie proved to be a huge success upon its release. The movie initially follows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) as she flees town with money she stole from her employer, which inadvertently leads her to the Bates Motel. Here she encounters the infamous Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), and ultimately her death at the…

was always being punished by his parents. His parents’ ways of punishment really took a toll on him. “He also remarked that his mother would force him to stand at the foot of her bed for several hours as punishment (a scene alluded to in his film Psycho) “ (“Alfred”). His mother wasn’t just the punisher, his father made him go to the…