Very interesting

Rating: 8/10 (15 September 2009)

I just saw this movie again, and it is very interesting. Along with Vertigo it is one of Hitchcock's most interesting movies. It is really scary the way we are slowly drawn into the murder, and given little clues and diversions. Hitchcock is a master at that, and like in the other movie with James Stevart (Vertigo) this movie is almost bordering on the supernatural. This is what makes it so scary. It is not the same horror as in Psycho but it is extremely eerie and disturbing. We wonder what is going on, and are constantly forced to be extremely careful in evaluating what we see on the screen. The story unfolds very nicely leading up to a good climax. I think Vertigo is even better than Rear Window, but in a way they are telling the same story, and both of them are very weird, bordering on the supernatural and playing with what is possible in the real world.