Av Productions

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2019)

The movie caught my eye as we watched it but the movie in itself was outstanding. All the scary scenes,were not jumpscares like they are now. No they were more than that. Alfred Hitchcock used psychology, which i think hints the title. He uses your own imagination against you, getting into your brain and playing with your emotions. He lets your imagination run wild before he shows who was doing all these horrific things. He played the system on this one i think, knowing back then the hays code back then was just terrible. Some parts of the movie he will have you thinking and another part he will have you shaking in your boots. Back to the hays code part of this, you have to admit he did slip through the cracks a bit on this one. The code was extremely strict back then not letting homicide,suicide or even nudity be shown back then. He did not put any in there explicitly letting it be shown. Yet he did let you know what was going on in obvious ways , such as showing blood running down a drain and other things of that nature. This movie was outstanding in my opinion . Every dark vs light aspect was just right showing characters in dark clothing to be evil or crooked, and lighter colored characters to be loving and good. Even the small things like the Mcguffin he got just right in my opinion , you didn't know the importance of it until he wanted you to and that was the crazy thing about this movie, i think every actor and actress played their parts very well. Not letting the plot of the story get tangled and brought off course at all, i think this is one of the best if not the best movie of the early years of films.
-Ehvyn Baker