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Zombie Wednesday

Todays Octoberween is a two parter, I am splitting it between Zombpocolypse Wednesday and Fire it up Devils night, pin up of the day is the intense, powerful and sexy Milla Jovovich!


I say this all the time n youtu.be/ZcpcJT48AVk


The following list of zombie movies are probably in not much of an ordr, because I start off with the best of intentions and always remember one or two as I go along totally fucking up the order. However I will try and keep them all relatively short and sweet.



My 10 rules for surviving the Zombie Apooclypse are the following
1: Stay out of the cities
2: Know your can of beans math. Ex if Jenny has 1 can of beans and Mike has 2 cans of beans and Joe has a hatchet how many cans of beans does Joe have? Answer Joe has 3 cans of beans.
3: Prepare Prepare Prepare. Have a bug out bag ready and waiting, these can be substituted with your readiness shit you already should have in the back of your car. A tarp, extra fuel, a flash light, a med kit, a blanket, wet wipes, antiseptic, antibiotics, antihistamine, a few bottles of water, some canned food, only additions are a knife, some form of fire making device (why don't you carry a knife and fire on you anyway? ) and preferably a bottle of alcohol and a pack of cigarettes for trading disinfectant or stress relief.
4: KNOW YOUR EXITS! This goes for wherever you are, not just at home but at work also, try and figure this out where ever you go because the Zombie Apocolypse can hit anywhere or any time, do you know where the exits are in your local starschmucks? I thought not.
5: Learn how to shoot a gun and handle an axe, you would be amazed at how many idiots don't know how to weild a simple fire axe. Be careful don't do the zombies job for them!
6: See how quickly you can get to, check out the safety off and get in your car with all doors shut, windows up and yes Safety belt on! Don't drive like a maniac unless you have to clear a path, driving while freaking out will only make you get into a wreck sooner.
7. DO NOT GO TO THE FOLLOWING PLACES UNLESS YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE: The Hospital, Schools, Malls, Supermarkets or large department stores, and police barracks
8: When you do run out of gas always go into the back room of the gas station, most pumps are electric now and will not pump gas unless they are on, all gas stations come with a generator which is usually located at the back and considering gas stations and convenience stores are usually employing young kids or stoners the codes to everything are usually written down right next to the switches.
9: Protein will keep you feeling fuller longer. Look eventually prepackaged and fresh food is going to run out and if you don't know how to hunt, track, fish or forrage you're probably fucked. However if you stock up on food containing protein you will have enough fuel to keep going and you will be less hungry as protein releases the same triggers in your stomach and brain telling you you are full, so don't knock that canned spam until you've tried it.
10: DO NOT MELEE A ZOMBIE EVER! Run the fuck away, always kill at range and don't try running over more than perhaps two or three at a time its more likely they will fuck up your car.



2007 Planet Terror Starring Rose McGowen with a Machine Gun Leg After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release. youtu.be/VP81mNyrQfY



1985 Retun of the Living Dead is the original zombie comedy and every time our readers vote it onto the list I feel redeemed. I thought for the longest time I was the only one who loved Return of the Living Dead which is a hilarious comedy that tells the story of a couple of dimwitted warehouse workers who inadvertently bring about a zombie apocalypse.

The moment my early teenage hormones will never forget? Linnea Quigley's cemetery strip tease. youtu.be/-QOSQPU9Adk


1992 Dead Alive by Peter Jackson! Thats right Hobbit guy made a Zombie movie before he got big. It's about a young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors. youtu.be/lIsLSj-z4UM



1988 Serpent and the Rainbow Directed by Wes Craven, starring Bill Pullman and yes based mostly on true events. An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies. Warning You will never sit right again! youtu.be/EPWTvbTWhZc


All of the resident evil movies. I seriously like all of them, they are all cheap action packed bloody gore fun starring Leeloo Dallas AKA Milla Jovovich our Pin up of the day. However I have been told the best one of the lot is the first one set in the hive. I prefer extinction myself though. youtu.be/jiS6gtClrqk



2007 Rec This spanish language horror film is from a pair of talented spanish filmmakers and is the story of a zombie apocalypse that plays out as a news reporter is shooting a documentary on the local emergency services team, and the emergency is ground zero of a zombie infection. youtu.be/YGJ_jPKOj1c


White Zombie 1932 Is a very different film than many on the list, "White Zombie" is the grandfather of the American zombie film, whose influence is felt everywhere from movies to music (as the band with the same name can attest). The movie is highlighted by Bela Lugosi at his creepy best, surprisingly scary looking zombies, and an important lesson for all zombie movies to come: You can't kill - or even slow down - a zombie by shooting it in the chest. Why? Because Zombies are dead! They cant feel pain thus they don't have that automatic stopping mechanism that saves normal humans from say trying to lift something to heavy, zombies will lift until their arms pop off. youtu.be/5N5-UzUxBss



White Zombie - Thunder Kiss 65 youtu.be/yPNFVj-pISU


The Dawn of the dead remake from 2004 Some will argue that Dawn of the Dead is a horrible movie simply because it's a remake of one of the greatest horror films of all time but I disagree. Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead paid homage to George Romero's but was very much its own flesh-eating affair.

A great script and an incredibly talented cast headlined by Sarah Polley are why this movie worked so well. Add to it a bad ass sound track from Johnny Cash and incredible special effects you really can't find much to complain about. For me its mostly about the soundtrack though.

Richard Cheese - Down with the sickness youtu.be/at02Fvdhk2I

Johnny Cash - When the man comes around youtu.be/k9IfHDi-2EA
Something about Johnny Cash always makes me think of my Big Grammy, I think its the tremelo to his voice.



1943 I walked with the Zombie A young Canadian nurse, Betsy Connell, arrives in St. Sebastian in the West Indies to care for Jessica Holland, wife of wealthy sugar plantation owner Paul Holland. For Betsy, she seems to be living in paradise, despite Paul's dim view of his surroundings. His half-brother Wesley Rand is much cheerier. When Betsy finally meets Jessica, she finds her walking in the garden late at night as though she were in a trance. Dr. Maxwell explains that Jessica had a severe tropical fever that burned out portions of her spine, leaving her in a zombie-like state. Maxwell and Betsy recommend insulin shock treatment. Betsy also begins to wonder if voodoo might be able to cure her. youtu.be/hT_JnFXC6UA


1974 Let sleeping corpses Lie A straight-up zombie film for the zombie film lover. "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" has fantastic and realistic zombies of the "freshly dead" variety. It also features some graphic and long sequences of them chowing down on human flesh like they're at an all-you-can-eat buffet. youtu.be/-x54TlYs94s



1985 Day of the dead Romero tweaked the nose of the military-industrial complex with Day in which underground bunker-dwelling scientists and soldiers uneasily coexist. The director's third zombie film boasts a host of memorable performances, none more so that of Sherman Howard who plays the unnervingly intelligent (and, by the end, gun-toting) zombie ''Bub.'' youtu.be/GTpbJCVNHro


Dance of the dead 2008 is actually better than it sounds, which is saying a lot. On the night of the big High-School Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance. youtu.be/kmdUJJSQzhI



2009 Zombieland! I love this movie, and it actually teaches its viewers a lot about possibilities and living conditions of a post apocalyptic world, it also stars Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray so YAY ^^ If you haven't seen it its about a shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, and a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the Last Twinkie and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. You will never look at a public toilet the same way again trust me! "God bless rednecks!" youtu.be/Xs8ayvLzqxY




"They're coming to get you Barbara..." I am pretty sure you knew that George A. Romero's 60′s classic was going to be on this list. In fact had Night of the Living Dead not been included I am quite confident we would have seen outrage among zombie film fans.George Romero's Night of the Living Dead has made just about every list we have made relating to top horror films and is incredibly deserving. Honestly though its not my favorite, so youtu.be/UYR3dorshwA



Shaun of the Dead, if I said a British ''rom-zom-com'' with a pun for a title, you'de probably turn up your nose at it. However Shaun of the Dead is AWESOME! The first real movie from Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright works as both an affectionate, in-joke-filled homage to the genre and a terrific zombie film in its own right. Simon Pegg stars as a lovelorn slacker who believes the best place to wait out the undead apocalypse is his local pub. You've got red on you, I ran it under a cold tap and Queen's Dont stop me now are all wonderful scenes. It's pretty much one meme after another here and why it made my number #2 seat. youtu.be/nrluARJUCUg


My favorite Zombie movie is still and probably will always be "28 Days Later" from 2002 Directed by Danny Boyle. The sequel to this film 28 weeks later is cheap american action trash and the only good part is the first 20 mins of the whole damned film even if it does have Begbie in it. However 28 days I believe takes Romero's stance on a social exposition about not only mans inhumanity to man, our unquestioning corporate identity of the modern human, as well as our increased sensitivity to violence and amplified rage to create what I feel is the epitome of Zombie Survival genre. From the moment our hero Jim wakes up we are immersed into a world of desperation, fear, chaos and scientifically explainable violence, with odd moments of tranquility that lets you become disarmed enough for the next wave of horror. This movie is brilliant, from the realistic dialogue, wonderful understated acting, as well as the message and one of the first uses of free running in film I can not recommend this enough. Think Lord of the Flies meets Night of the Living Dead set in the beautiful English countryside. youtu.be/JbcuK8WBKE8



The Creepshow "Zombies Ate Her Brain" youtu.be/Yu3Rfc9fr-0We're Comin' To Kill Ya" -- Zach Selwin youtu.be/VNcG8fM_SJU
"Living Dead Beats" By Sek youtu.be/hA-I1w5o9lI Living Dead Girl By Rob Zombie youtu.be/BvsMPOfblfg
Jonathan Coulton's Re: Your Brains youtu.be/S6vnM9I7HIoWalk Like A Zombie" By The Horrorpops youtu.be/0RKZpKkgWMM
Ramones - Pet Sematary youtu.be/F3J0iwwsq-wThe Gonk from Dawn of the dead 1978 youtu.be/V66m52YFZBgZombies on your lawn from the game Plants versus Zombies which I love! youtu.be/OqpMFsnN7hMThe Cranberries - Zombie youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts Fela Kuti - Zombie youtu.be/Q76UngzHX5Y
Astro Zombie by The Misfits youtu.be/HZJPPOLBDccI monster Blue Wrath youtu.be/sOKwewc9dnsBig D & The Kids Table - It's Raining Zombies On Wall Street youtu.be/sQC9KMEKhbI
and while I still think he was a child molesting fuckhead here is Michael Jacksons Thriller youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA

Out of commission K

To those of you who knew I was going into the Hospital today for surgery I just wanted to let you know I am now home, doing well and currently enjoying massive painkillers and tripping balls. Thanks for all your well wishes and concern and I will be back to my usual pissed off and perky self soon enough. <3 K

Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

An evening evening with Alfred Hitchcock

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The song of the day which while not about Hitchcock or his work, this song always puts me in mind of Hitchcocks special sense of suspense. The End By The Doors youtu.be/aGmAmJFUvzM

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer. Alfred was the youngest child of a middle class English family, his father was a strict disciplinarian and a green grocer and his mother, was strong, outspoken and by all reports was a real firecracker of a woman. Both of these personalities along with Alfreds Catholic roots and his education at very heavy handed disciplinary institutes like St. Ignatius college. One of the most pivotal moments in Alfreds life which also followed him into his films was an often told story of a very young Alfred, after doing something wrong was sent by his father to the local police station where he was locked up for a few hours; leaving him with a life long fear of authority figures, police officers, confinement, and powerlessness.

Alfred's father died when he was 15 and during an unsuccessful career in the royal army Alfred found work on the titles of silent movies. His writing started around this time and one of his first writen pieces "What's who?" was the spiritual precursor to Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?"

After this work Hitchcock found his was to Germany during the height of the expressionist era and got to work as an understudy with several great film makers of the day like Fritz Lang! During this time he learned many very important skills but was most influenced by Mernau's work and Langs Destiny.

This was when Hitchcock started making films himself including our first ....



The Lodger! 1927 youtu.be/ySX99G-l828 or The story of the London fog. About a landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London. starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor Novello. This film is basically based on Jack the Ripper, but done Hitchock style.


One thing you must remember about this time in cinema is that while arthouse film was all the rage in Europe, anything to "artistic" in film in England was grossly unpopular. Hitchcocks films that leaned a little too far into the realm of artistic expression did not do to well at this time and his more commercially aimed work was a smash success. This is a problem that would follow Alfred for the rest of his life. Whenever he tried to work outside of the studio boundaries inevitably the film would flop. NOT THAT IT WAS BAD, just was not palatable to the audience of the time.



As a side note The Lodger was also the first appearance of Alfred as an extra in his own film a scenario that he continued through out his carrier and one that is followed today by Stan Lee.







The women in Hitchcocks movies are always given a certain life and power, a strength which set them apart from the general movie vixens of the time. During his life Alfred was always drawn toward strong women and very unique and confident people. The one woman from Alfreds life that I would have loved to have met was his wife Alma. Hitchcock and Alma married on February 12, 1926; she would become his chief collaborator on all his films. She was said to be extremely bright, blunt and no fuss sort of woman. She spoke her mind and was never shrewish. She was an equal and respected for her knowledge as well as her manner. The Hitchcocks became very busy with filmmaking. They lived in a country house (named Shamley Green) on the weekends and lived in a London flat during the week. In 1928, Alma delivered a baby girl, Patricia – the couple's only child. Hitchcock's next big hit was Blackmail (1929), the first British talkie (film with sound). youtu.be/uwkfM-Gi7KU Alice White, the daughter of a tobacconist, has been dating Frank Webber, a young up and coming detective at Scotland Yard. After successfully ditching Frank one evening on a date, Alice instead meets up with a young male artist who she really wanted to be with that evening. After going up to the artist's studio apartment, he tried to rape her. She ended up stabbing him to death in self defense, after which she tried to wipe out any evidence of being in his apartment, followed by sneaking out of the apartment and wandering the streets in a shocked daze over what she did. Frank ends up being one of the detectives assigned to the case, he who sees evidence only known to him of Alice having been in the artist's apartment, and recognizing the dead man as the person Alice sneaked off with after she ditched him the night before. Frank decides to hide the evidence he knows to implicate Alice from his fellow detectives but confront Alice with it to see what she says. But before she answers, an unsavory type named Tracy implies that he knows what happens and blackmails the pair in return for his silence. Eventually, Frank learns that Tracy is a wanted criminal. So Frank comes up with an idea of pinning the murder on Tracy. The questions become whether such a move will actually work, and if so whether Alice's conscience will allow an innocent man, however unsavory, be charged with a crime he didn't commit.









As a side note, the actress that plays Alice White Anny Ondra was actually a czech actress who's accent was too thick to properly portray the common Alice character, so a voice over actress was used in her stead.

During the 1930's Hitchcock also created in film, a plot device that has no specific meaning or purpose other than to advance the story; any situation that motivates the action of a film either artificially or substantively, called the McGuffin. Originally based on a story where this device was used in a story set on a Scottish train.

Hitchcock then made The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). The film was a British and American success, as were his next five films: The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), and The Lady Vanishes (1938). The latter won the New York Critics' Award for Best Film of 1938.








Hitchcock caught the attention of David O. Selznick, an American film producer and owner of Selznick Studios in Hollywood. In 1939, Hitchcock, the number one British director at the time, accepted a contract from Selznick and moved his family to Hollywood. Both his wife and his daughter loved America and California's warm weather but He continued to wear his dark English suits no matter how hot the weather. In the studio, he worked diligently on his first American film, Rebecca (1940), a psychological thriller. After the small budgets he had worked with in England, Hitchcock delighted in the large Hollywood resources he could use to build elaborate sets. However even Rebecca did not satisfy Hitch and whether or not this was due to the story not being his or having to the fact that he was being dictated to and stifled creatively by Selznick. The film was nominated for an Oscar but lost out to Fords The grapes of wrath.

Rebecca in 1940 youtu.be/7cf0-GsXDzI A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife. Was an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of the same name. It was produced by Selznick and stars Laurence Olivier as the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter, Joan Fontaine as his second wife, and Judith Anderson as the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers. Sir Laurence!


(NOTE from Movie buff extraordinaire Artman2112: "Rebecca actually did win best picture that year, it was Hitch who did not win best director, nor did he ever win an Oscar for best director."



Hitchcock was undoubtedly the master of suspense, but also he was a master at planning out his scenes in every detail. They say that Einsteins brain was curiously configured to see complex mathematical equations in a visual sense instead of purely logical and in text. Hitchcocks brain also must have been similarly gifted as he managed to make the filming of his movies the boring part of his creative process with his keen imagination and thorough understanding of space and setting. Hitchcock took his audiences to the domed roof of the British Museum for a chase scene in Blackmail (1929), to the Statue of Liberty for a free fall in Saboteur (1942), to the streets of Monte Carlo for a wild drive in To Catch a Thief (1955), to the Royal Albert Hall for an assassination misfire in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956),underneath the Golden Gate Bridge for a suicide attempt in Vertigo (1958), and to Mt. Rushmore for a chase scene in North by Northwest (1959).
1942 Saboteur youtu.be/LqUV4CwM12Q







Grant and Grace in To Catch a thief youtu.be/HH8c0szcIdk
The man who knew too much youtu.be/Jy1Bg31B6yI

In fact each film by Hitchcock had the most amazing camera work and when we look back and remember each film we see them more clearly in our own mindseye these fantastic scenes, we feel the oppression, the confinement, the thrill of fear, and the building menace, whether real or imagined that each of the characters face. We remember Hitchcocks work first in the senses instead of in the abstract. Hitch was once known to have said that the future of cinematography would mean that audiences would experience a film instead of just view it.
Hitchcock said audiences found classic blonde females to be innocent looking and an escape for the bored housewife. He didn't think a woman should wash the dishes and go see a movie about a woman washing the dishes. Hitchcock's leading ladies also had a cool, with loads of attitude for added suspense. Hitchcock's leading ladies included Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedron. Though I have to say that while they are often attributed to being "Icy" I fear that perhaps was more of an observation based on the contrast they gave to other works at the time. Hitchcocks women where strong female leads, even in fear or duress they where not given to bending or being meek, they were empowered, independent, classy, sometimes scary and sexy women just as intriguing if not more so than the men. The game industry developers of today could learn a lot about how to portray women from Hitch. youtu.be/Zu8JASfWb6A



We all know his classics, Psycho and The Birds, The rear window, spellbound, etc. Want I wanted to talk about the man who is perhaps the greatest influence on film making today is not about just his career and the mark he's made on the collective world creative history, but I also wanted to talk about the man who loved his wife, loved to stay home and have family dinner parties with only his close friends. A home he made with Alma that was joyous as it was a steady sanctuary from the insanity that was the Hollywood which surrounded him. Alfred was a homebody, and I feel it is because of his appreciation for normalcy he could great communicate what was Abnormal, that which causes us irrational gut instinct fear. Hitch got into your brain, had his finger on your pulse and played scales up and down your spine. The following scenes are my top list best scenes from Hitchcocks movies.
The crop duster scene in North by Northwest, the beauty of this scene is the genuine sense of menace that pervades what in lesser hands might have come across as a cartoonish interlude. A guy in a suit steps off a bus in the middle of nowhere. An anonymous pilot in a cropduster tries repeatedly to kill him (strafing him with machine-gun fire, no less). That simple proposition is brought to thrilling life — and an absolutely perfect conclusion in what may be Hitch's most thoroughly entertaining film — by the director's mastery of tension and by the simple pleasure of watching Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) transition so marvelously from detached bemusement to outraged shock to primal, running-for-his-life fear.
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While I can say I love all of Hitches movies equally, Vertigo for me as someone who once had a crippling fear of heights really strikes home. But the real chill factor of vertigo, the thing that is the most viscerally unsettling or as eerily moving than the "green neon" scene that unfolds in a cheap San Francisco hotel. When the obsessed and heartsick Scottie (James Stewart) sees Judy (Kim Novak) emerge, ghostlike, from another room — lit by an awful, green neon light outside the window and dressed and coiffed exactly like another woman, Madeleine, with whom Scottie fell in love — the palpable jolt of passion that passes between the two is unlike anything else that Hitchcock ever filmed. The raw sexual hunger in Scottie's eyes when he sees Judy/Madeleine standing before him, in the flesh, is … well, it's vertiginous. youtu.be/tesqTwX7cpc




There are more spectacular scenes in The Birds — the seagull's-eye view of a town aflame and in chaos, for example — but for sheer Hitchcockian perversion, nothing can top the long, long minute when Tippi Hedren sits outside a schoolhouse, smoking a cigarette, unaware of the dozens, the scores of crows massing on a jungle gym behind her. I really don't like Birds Not the movie just birds in general,, nasty and loud little *cough* well you get my meaning. youtu.be/ydLJtKlVVZw





Uncle Charlies monologue during dinner in Shadow of a doubt. Charlie is a smooth, charming serial killer, "The Merry Widow Murderer," whose adoring niece, Charlotte (Teresa Wright), gradually comes to realize that her namesake is a sociopath. The famous "faded, fat, greedy women" monologue that Cotten icily delivers at dinner one night — finishing with a gaze straight into the camera that's both knowing and vaguely reptilian — is still deeply chilling all these years later, and has informed countless similar fourth-wall-busting scenes in the seven decades since it first stunned moviegoers in 1943. youtu.be/vkEoGmrwNt0


When Raymond Burr looks into James Stewarts camera in Rear Window Here, in a few taut moments, Hitchcock pulls off the neat trick of making the tacit voyeurism at the heart of a great film suddenly, frighteningly explicit. James Stewart's wheelchair-bound character watches helplessly as his girlfriend (Grace Kelly) is attacked by Raymond Burr's Lars Thorwald — and then saved by cops — in Thorwald's apartment, clearly visible across a courtyard. Through his ever-present camera with its telephoto lens, Stewart sees Kelly give him a secret sign that Thorwald is, as they both suspected, likely guilty of killing and dismembering his wife. When Thorwald slowly looks up and gazes directly into Stewart's camera — and into the eyes of the viewer — the sense of the watcher becoming the watched is like a punch in the gut. Still gives me goose bumps, but the Hitchcock was a fan of making you feel helpless along with the main characters. youtu.be/1Ez6dw3ywcc





when a married person is murdered the authorities should look first, and hard, at the spouse. In Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, the fact that the intended victim is played by the gorgeous Grace Kelly, while the hubby who sets up her (attempted) murder is the silky Ray Milland, reminds us that in Hitchcock's universe — as in ours — "nice" people are just as capable of planning and succumbing to appalling crimes as far nastier folks. The critical scene, meanwhile, where Tony's old classmate, Swann (the wonderful, cadaverous character actor, Anthony Dawson) tries to strangle Kelly's Margot to death with a scarf — while Tony listens in on the phone — is especially powerful because we not only know it's coming, but we watch it unfold in Hitchcock's signature, torturous, suspenseful style. As the tousled, nightgown-clad Kelly fights for her life, the musty old conflation of sex and death feels vital and, shockingly, new. youtu.be/LBoL2vMJkCs


Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman kissing in a wine cellar. Even if Hitchcock didn't direct this scene (which, incidentally, is almost stolen by the great Claude Rains, playing Bergman's husband), it would still be worth watching for the simple reason that Bergman and Grant are both so absurdly beautiful. But because Hitchcock did direct this little masterpiece of sublimated sexual attraction, what might have been a mere diversion becomes one of the film's pivotal scenes — and its most memorable. In it, Bergman and Grant are trying to find evidence to use against Rains' character, Alexander Sebastian, a prominent Nazi who fled to Brazil after the Second World War. When Sebastian surprises them while they're searching the cellar, Bergman and Grant cover their real purpose by hastily engaging in a pseudo-clandestine kiss in plain sight of her husband. The unspoken but obvious irony, of course, is that Bergman and Grant are passionately attracted to one another — but feel they have to feign passion in front of Sebastian to hide their real motives for being in the cellar in the first place. It's all very twisted, erotic and nerve-wracking. In other words, it's Hitchcock. BTW How the hell do you marry a Nazi and not know they are a friggin Nazi! youtu.be/5jCGfS3GxRM






Lastly we have the shower scene from psycho. I know I know its overplayed, over referenced, but you know it is all of those things for a goddarn reason! I learned how to take a shower with my eyes open because of this scene and watch it as many times as you like. Study it. Analyze it. Dissect it. However many ways one approaches this scene — arguably the single most famous in cinema history — something about it defies explanation. Something about it, more than 50 years after it was shot, invests this awful scenario with a power out of all proportion to its constituent parts. She's naked, she's vulnerable, she's all alone in a strange place, she's surrounded by hard and metalic objects and that music, her scream the shadows...everything really will just scare the shit out of you. There is a reason why when I am feeling particularly dark humored I go around fake stabbing Marion while mimicking Hermans violins and cellos. SCREE SCREE SCREE SCREE youtu.be/0WtDmbr9xyY