Greatly overestimated

Rating: 5/10 (8 October 2003)

This film is very overestimated just as so many other film-classics. It's certainly not a bad film but it's not worth the high ranking. Maybe Hitchcock was a pioneer in his genre and important for future horror-film-directors. But this is not a reason to still love the film. Also worth mentioning is the acting (not realistic) and the technical aspects (the photography isn't that good) which for their time of course wasn't that bad, but compared to, for ex. "The Shining" (#87 in the IMDB top 250) is lousy. In the end the film isn't that scary. I recommend "Dark Water" (or "Honogurai mizu no soko kara") by Hideo Nakata if you want something scary. Maybe Hitchcock WAS a genius, but his films are outdated like Jesse Owens world-records.