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Tag Archives: suspense

Gone Girl

October 5, 2014by Hunter 2 Comments

I loved this movie. Whether it’s the best movie of 2014 so far or not is still up for debate, but honestly I can’t see any way it’s not going […]

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

January 15, 2014by Hunter 10 Comments

In The Man Who Knew Too Much, Hitchcock remakes his own film. I haven’t seen the original, but this remake is pretty darn good. While it doesn’t have the deep […]

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AFI Top 100 Discussion: Jaws

January 12, 2014by Hunter 8 Comments

Here is the first in a series of reviews featuring dialogues about films in AFI’s Top 100. They’re in a random order, so today myself and Jon Harrison of A […]

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The Shining

July 30, 2013by Hunter 16 Comments

I was holding off on seeing The Shining pretty admirably; since I don’t watch a lot of horror movies I thought I would wait until Halloween and do some sort […]

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The Suspense Continues….

July 23, 2013by Hunter 4 Comments

I promised back in January (!!!) that the Hitchcock marathon would resume, and now here we are. I’m mostly putting this up today because I don’t really have any reviews […]

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Alien

May 29, 2013by Hunter 13 Comments

Since I loved Prometheus so much, I was really excited to get to Alien. Not only because I wanted to see the film, but I also wanted to continue with […]

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The Hitchcock Marathon: Phase One Wrap-Up

January 18, 2013by Hunter 8 Comments

The suspense is going to subside around here somewhat in the coming weeks, or at least the Alfred Hitchcock created type. We have come to the end of the first […]

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The Birds

January 15, 2013by Hunter 8 Comments

I bet the average person in 1963 was pretty surprised when they saw The Birds for the first time. If you went into it not knowing anything about it, the […]

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Rope

January 8, 2013by Hunter 8 Comments

Rope is one of Hitchcock’s films that focuses on the perfect murder, but in this case it’s the perpetrators that are perfect and not necessarily the method. These characters are […]

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North By Northwest

January 6, 2013by Hunter 10 Comments

North by Northwest is one of Hitchcock’s most popular and entertaining films. He uses his classic innocent man wrongly accused plot, and takes it all across the country. It’s has […]

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