Influenced+by+Hitchcock

=Influenced by Hitchcock = Our horror and suspense directors today could not have gotten as far as they did without being influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's techniques and styles. The top directors influenced by Hitchcock are James Nguyen, David Lynch, M. Night Shymalan, Steven Speilberg, Brian DePalma, and David Fincher.

In the movie, //Birdemic: Shock and Terror,// made in 2010 by James Nguyen was inspired by Hitchcock's film, //The Birds,// made in 1963. Birds attack man kind in both films, but what made Nguyen's version seem like a remake was the appearance of Tippi Hedren. Nguyen stated in an interview that Hitchcock was one of his favorite directors.



//Blue Velvet// and //Mulholland Drive// are two films directed by David Lynch that had aspects similar to Hitchcock's style. Both include a young female being tortured by fear and gruesome killing scenes that required patience and skill as well as sight clues that help solve the murders.



M. Night Shymalan's //The Village// (2004) and //Lady in the Water// both had memorable ominous figures and special effects that remind many directors of Hitchcock's works. For example, in //The Village//, we see a 'monster' in the figure of a wolf that follows around the young girls and terrorizes her everywhere she sees it. 





In Steven Spielberg's //Jaws// (1975), we see him use the zoom and shrink techniques of Hitchcock to give the audience a feeling of depth in field. 

 

Brian DePalma's movies always seem to have a touch of Hitchcock in each of them. //Body Double// (1984) has many scenes that are comparable to that of Hitchcock's //Rear Window// and //Vertigo.// There are scenes where our main character, Jake (Craig Wasson), struggles finding a job because of his claustrophobia. He also witnesses the murder of his beautiful neighbor, Gloria (Deborah Shelton).



//The Game// (1997) and //Se7en// (1995) are two films directed by David Fincher. //The Game// follows the life a young financier names Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) who receives a strange action game for his birthday that seems to consume his life.



In //Se7en//, we follow two detectives (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) follow around a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins to kill his victims. Critics say this movie has similar aspect to //Strangers On A Train// as well as //The Birds.//    

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;">There is also a more recent film called //Hitchcock// made in 2012 and directed by Sacha Gervasi that was about Alfred Hitchcock and his films. It was about the love story of Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville during the directing of the movie, //Psycho.// It starred Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock and Hellen Mirren as his wife as well as Scarlet Johansson as Janet Leigh.

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Sources: Biography Channel contributors. “Alfred Hitchcock Biography.” //The Biography Channel//. Web. 25 September 2013.

Purtell, Tim. “A Director Under the Influence.” //Entertainment Weekly//. 15 January 1993. Web. 25 September 2013. Kehr, Dave. “Hitchcock, Finding His Voice In Silence.” //New York Times//. 19 June 2013. Pg. AR13. Print.