Horror · Thriller · Mystery
American
1960 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 109 min
A woman on the run with a stolen envelope of cash leaves the highway for a quiet motel off the main road. Its shy young manager seems harmless, but Hitchcock builds unease out of small details, a house on a hill and a score of nothing but strings.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of postwar American suspense and a turning point for horror, it showed a mainstream studio director taking genre material into frank, psychologically unsettling territory just as the old production restrictions were loosening.
Watch with intention
Watch how Hitchcock controls what you look at and what you feel about it, long before the film explains anything.
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