Rope (1948)
Apr 1, 2003Psycho-Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock conducts an experiment in shooting a film in only eight takes. Based on the true-life Leopold-Lowe case where two gay students murdered a child as an exercise in moral superiority.
Farley Granger
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Sep 22, 2014Murder Pact Between Strangers/Psycho-Thriller
One of the most darkly engrossing of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, a classic about two strangers who make a murder pact after meeting on a train. Where any other director would have made a straight thriller, Hitchcock lingers on the mordant humour with unnerving effect
The Slasher … Is the Sex Maniac! (1972)
Jun 25, 2026Giallo Film
A giallo film about a killer who is murdering adulterous women. Standard material but some of the film’s dated sexual attitudes cause quite a double take today
Arnold (1973)
Oct 21, 2020Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller
Comedy-thriller in the Old Dark House tradition with greedy relatives being bumped off in the fight for the will. A film that begins with a corpse getting married can't be all bad.
The Prowler (1981)
Aug 15, 2013Slasher Film
An effort from the heyday of the 1980s slasher film. Made with slightly more directorial competence that most of its contemporaries, a level of gore that caused censorship issues in some countries, although this proves weak when offering script rationale for proceedings