Top Ten Hitchcock Films

Do yourself a favor and avoid embarrassing costume parties and rent some Hitchock movies. It's not gory, give you nightmares kind of scary mind you, but it's so much more sinister. Hitchcock is all about the evil that lurks beneath the surface of America.

My Completely Un-Scientific and Very Personal List of Hitch's Ten Best Films

1. Shadow of a Doubt
Great cast -- probably one of the most expertly cast movies ever made. Joseph Cotton plays the most likeable villian I've ever seen, which makes him so much more menacing. There's uncomfortable sexual tension with his niece, played by the always wonderful Teresa Wright. This pic is rumored to be Hitchcock's personal favorite.

2. Notorious
Chemistry between Grant and Bergman is off the charts. This may be Hitch's best film, despite my obvious love and preference for Shadow of Doubt.

3. Psycho
Still frigtening and disturbing after all of these years

4. Rope
The film looks like one whole shot. It's really 12 long shots, but the cuts are seemless. It's also about a pair of possibly homosexual, definately brillant students serve dinner on top of a corpse.

5. Strangers on a Train
Wonderful performances, terrific use of shadow and light

6. Marnie
Hitch goes to extremes (sometimes comically) to communicate Marnie's inner turmoil. Tippi Hendren gives a great performance in this.

7. Vertigo
If all you know of Jimmy Stewart is It's A Wonderful Life, you must see him as a violent and obessive cop in the film considered to be Hitch's masterpiece.

8. North by Northwest
So many scenes have been lifted from this movie, but it's more fun than thrilling.

9. Frenzy
Incredibly disturbing and violent, perhaps because it is less stylized than Hitch's other films. Or maybe it's because it's about a mudering rapist with a tie fetish.

10. The Birds
A classic that, like North by Northwest, has had so many scenes lifted from it.