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You ask a complicated question! There are arguments for Hitchcock as feminist, but the bulk of the literature I have seen is more inclined to label him as a misogynist (not to mention fetishist, sadist and voyeur). The icy blondes that were his trademark may have been strong characters on film, but in life were very much under his control. He not only ...

Manichitrathazhu story is influenced from a tragedy that happened in Alummoottil Tharavadu, a famous central Travancore family, in the 19th century. Here heroine suffers from personality disorder and some strange things happen, solves problem with exorcism and psychiatry. Where as in Vertigo, a retired police detective suffering from acrophobia who is hired ...

Psycho opened to very mixed reviews. A summary of a few are found on it's wikipedia page. The bad reviews called it a blot on Hitchcock's career, a gimmick movie, and that it looked like a TV show padded out to two hours. One of my film professors hated it, saying that "you shouldn't need to explain the ending of your movie in your movie."

In a lot of ways, Rope (1948) has inspired a number of feature films. Two that come to mind are Rear Window (1954) and Murder by Numbers (2002). Rope is always a film this writer will suggest to people at the end of the day. In many ways Rope represents a time period where Hitchcock was trying to try something new. After all, the film is an ...

Hitchcock likely received bad reviews as commonly as any filmmaker did in his day or ours. Criticism is by definition made in the eye of the beholder: a subjective review. The thrust of your question appears to be more about "how did viewers react to socially shocking elements" in Hitch's films. That question, I would suggest, is self-answering. Hitchcock ...

The New York Times on The Trouble with Harry: "It is not a particularly witty or clever script that John Michael Hayes has put together from a novel by Jack Trevor Story, nor does Mr. Hitchcock's direction make it spin. The pace is leisurely, almost sluggish, and the humor frequently is strained."

The American Film Institute has a synopsis that explains: The police apprehend Thorwald, who confesses that he deposited most of his wife’s body in the East River, except for her head, which he first buried in the garden and then packed in a hatbox.

Foremost Hitchcock critic Robin Wood has written two books on Hitchcock’s films which are available through your local library’s InterLibrary Loan (ILL) service if you live in the US (and a number of other countries as well): Hitchcock's Films (1977) and Hitchcock's Films Revisited (1989). He also wrote several essays in the book A Hitchcock Reader ...

I had the impression for years that his last movie Family Plot was widely panned, but cannot substantiate it right now. All the reviews I currently see use mild terms like "witty relaxed lark" (Canby), "not exactly top-tier" (Anderson), mixed in with others that list it as a "complicated delight" (Ebert). So, is this fawning, lackadaisical praise for a ...

I don't find any similarities between Vertigo, and also I feel other south indian remakes of Manichithrathazhu seems to be medically incorrect where Ganga's anger is wrongly directed to lead hero's character. Manichithrathazhu script is said to be an work inspired from the case dairies of a Psychiatrist. It is evident from the way the movie has made with a ...