![]() ![]() I've struggled to write this piece on Shadows of Doubt for several days. Although it created a huge controversy at the time of its theatrical release, it later won entry to the Hall of Fame - Motion Picture, of the Online Film & Television Association.I hope you don't mind if I get a little frank with you here. Watch how he builds up the progressively eerie atmosphere through effective use of a terrific background score, backed by the brilliant acting by Janet Leigh, who won a Golden Globe. Hitchcock packs in a perceptive observation of warped human psychology. The thrill is only elevated by the climax. The tricky plot, full of unexpected twists and turns, makes for a delightfully chilling watch for first-time audiences. The motel is seemingly peaceful, until it turns into the site of horrifying, bizarre incidents. The events unfold in a shady, remote motel manned by the outwardly courteous proprietor Norman Bates, played by Anthony Perkins, where Janet Leigh’s Marion Crane decides to spend a fateful night, while caught up in a personal situation. It is perhaps Hitchcock's Most popular and well-known thriller. Released in 1960, this cult film is still looked at as the reference point for the very genre of modern thriller. Without any shadow of a doubt, this one is a must-watch. Hitchcock, who had a knack for upturning audience expectations, deconstructs the on-screen persona of Joseph Cotten as a charming, amiable leading man at the time to terrifying impact. Teresa not only plays Hitchcock’s most unguarded heroines but also the most quick-witted and able ones of his oeuvre that either goes into the extremes of helpless murder victims or temptresses. The dark, slow-burn suburban thriller that is laced with Hitchcock’s signature tropes of serial killing, suspicion, deceit, international spying with an undercurrent of sexual tension is edgy and thick with suspense. ![]() She gradually discovers that her uncle, who is her namesake and hence also called Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is a serial killer. The plotline centres around Charlie (Teresa Wright), a young woman bored with her mundane life in the suburbs until her uncle arrives with a dark twist under his sleeves. Released in 1943, three years after Rebecca, this one is Hitchcock’s personal favourite. ![]()
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