Best Hitchcock films - Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window - Time Out Films

Best Hitchcock films - Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window - Time Out Film




John Carpenter on ‘Vertigo’ (1958)

‘“Vertigo” exists somewhere outside of time, in your unconscious. It’s a dark film, a deep, dark nightmare. The techniques involved are unbelievable – the music, the editing, the colour, the slow, deliberate, dreamlike pace. I’m not sure if audiences in 1958 – me included, because I saw it at the tender age of ten – knew what was going on. Everybody who’s ever tried to do anything suspenseful has copied Hitchcock. As a matter of fact, everyone who’s ever put two pieces of film together has copied Hitchcock. That’s how it’s done.’

John Carpenter is the director of ‘Halloween’ and ‘The Thing’.