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March 2013

  • Win Hitchcock Starring Anthony Hopkins on Blu-ray and DVD - TheHDRoom (01/Mar/2013)
    Win Hitchcock Starring Anthony Hopkins on Blu-ray Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson star in Hitchcock, the story of how Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho film was made with the help and support of his wife. Hitchcock makes its Blu-ray and DVD ...
  • TGIO:The Master of Suspense - Himalayan Times (01/Mar/2013)
    KATHMANDU: Sir Alfred Hitchcock remains one of the most famous directors in movie history, not only because of his droll public image, but also because of the enduring appeal of so many of his films. Hitchcock hated suspense himself thus the title Thank ...
  • Hitchcock series screens 'Rear Window' - Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald (subscription) (01/Mar/2013)
    March showcases movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The March 8 film is "Rear Window," a 115-minute film from 1954. As his broken leg heals, wheelchair-bound, professional photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) becomes absorbed with the parade ...
  • DVD Previews: 'Hitchcock,' 'Life of Pi,' 'Rise of the Guardians,' more - The Reporter (05/Mar/2013)
    "Hitchcock" (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in "Hitchcock," in which Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. The insouciant ...
  • DVD Previews: 'Hitchcock,' 'Life of Pi,' 'Rise of the Guardians,' more - Daily Breeze (05/Mar/2013)
    "Hitchcock" (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in "Hitchcock," in which Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. The insouciant ...
  • DVD Previews: 'Hitchcock,' 'Life of Pi,' 'Rise of the Guardians,' more - The Evening Sun (05/Mar/2013)
    "Hitchcock" (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in "Hitchcock," in which Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. The insouciant ...
  • 'Funeral March of a Marionette': Puppet Music Promoted By Hitchcock - Boise State Public Radio (05/Mar/2013)
    Comments · Print. By Tom Huizenga · Enlarge image. Credit iStockphoto.com. Charles Gounod's quirky march about marionettes found new life as the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock's suspense show on TV. Originally published on Wed March 6, 2013 1:17 ...
  • 'Funeral March of a Marionette': Puppet Music Promoted By Hitchcock - WBAA (05/Mar/2013)
    They fall back in line just before Gounod's march reaches its destination. And why does this jaunty little number sound so familiar? Thank Alfred Hitchcock. In 1955, the master of the macabre chose it as the theme to his TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
  • DVD Previews: 'Hitchcock,' 'Life of Pi,' 'Rise of the Guardians,' more - Dearborn Press and Guide (05/Mar/2013)
    "Hitchcock" (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in "Hitchcock," in which Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. The insouciant ...
  • DVD Previews: 'Hitchcock,' 'Life of Pi,' 'Rise of the Guardians,' more - New Haven Register (05/Mar/2013)
    "Hitchcock" (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in "Hitchcock," in which Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. The insouciant ...
  • 'Funeral March of a Marionette': Puppet Music Promoted By Hitchcock - WWNO (05/Mar/2013)
    Comments · Print. By Tom Huizenga · Enlarge image. Credit iStockphoto.com. Charles Gounod's quirky march about marionettes found new life as the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock's suspense show on TV. Originally published on Tue March 5, 2013 12:55 ...
  • DVD Previews: 'Hitchcock,' 'Life of Pi,' 'Rise of the Guardians,' more - Willits News (06/Mar/2013)
    "Hitchcock" (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in "Hitchcock," in which Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. The insouciant ...
  • 'Funeral March Of A Marionette': Puppet Music Promoted By Hitchcock - Alabama Public Radio (06/Mar/2013)
    Comments · Print. By Tom Huizenga · Enlarge image. Credit iStockphoto.com. Charles Gounod's quirky march about marionettes found new life as the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock's suspense show on TV. Originally published on Wed March 6, 2013 8:43 ...
  • New on DVD: 'Hitchcock' and 'Life of Pi' - The Morning Sun (06/Mar/2013)
    “Hitchcock” (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in “Hitchcock,” in which Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. The insouciant ...
  • '39 Steps' lightens up the Master of Suspense - ReporterNews.com (06/Mar/2013)
    “It's like Alfred Hitchcock meets Monty Python,” says Adam Singleton, the assistant director. “You have the story which is a thriller, full of suspense like Hitchcock, with the bizarre, humor of Monty Python.” Director Ryan McBride chose a vaudevillian style for the ...
  • DVD releases coming March 12, 2013 - Daily Herald (07/Mar/2013)
    (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in "Hitchcock," in which Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. The insouciant tone is set ...
  • 10 Days Out: March 7, 2013 - Yakima Herald-Republic (press release) (07/Mar/2013)
    The Yakima Valley Museum's Mystery Movie Madness series continues with Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic, “The 39 Steps.” The film, regarded as Hitchcock's first real classic, features an innocent man forced by circumstance into a dark and tangled web of ...
  • Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima Herald-Republic (07/Mar/2013)
    The Yakima Valley Museum's Mystery Movie Madness series continues with Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic, “The 39 Steps.” The film, regarded as Hitchcock's first real classic, features an innocent man forced by circumstance into a dark and tangled web of ...
  • The Floyd Theater presents 'Hitchcock' - Louisville.com (07/Mar/2013)
    It's kind of incredible that someone as renowned and influential as Alfred Hitchcock hasn't been the source of more fictional portrayals. He is one of the greatest filmmakers ever to live – certainly one of the most influential. As “the master of suspense,” he ...
  • Huge vultures invade NJ town: 'It's like Alfred Hitchcock' - DigitalJournal.com (08/Mar/2013)
    One resident described the garbage attacking and bone dropping vultures as very aggressive, telling the JJ "It's like Alfred Hitchcock." The USDA have advised the town people that the best way to scare off their unwelcome guests is to hang "a dead vulture ...
  • Vultures invade New Jersey town - Sun News Network (08/Mar/2013)
    In a new twist on the Alfred Hitchcock film, a New Jersey town is battling an invasion of giant black vultures. About 130 of the scavengers have descended in a three- to four-block area in Bridgewater, reported NJ.com. When not circling overhead, they've been ...
  • Vultures invade New Jersey town - CANOE (08/Mar/2013)
    In a new twist on the Alfred Hitchcock film, a New Jersey town is battling an invasion of giant black vultures. About 130 of the scavengers have descended in a three- to four-block area in Bridgewater, reported NJ.com. When not circling overhead, they've been ...
  • Vultures invade New Jersey town - Toronto Sun (08/Mar/2013)
    In a new twist on the Alfred Hitchcock film, a New Jersey town is battling an invasion of giant black vultures. About 130 of the scavengers have descended in a three- to four-block area in Bridgewater, reported NJ.com. When not circling overhead, they've been ...
  • Hitchcock life and cinematic legacy - Guardian Express (08/Mar/2013)
    Most classic movie lovers have a place in their hearts for Alfred Hitchcock, the director who earned the title Master of Suspense by producing a multitude of well-known thrillers. His list of film classics includes “The Birds,” “Vertigo,” “North by Northwest” and ...
  • A Big Screen Classic Comes To Life And It's Scary - newjerseynewsroom.com (08/Mar/2013)
    NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM. Many residents of Martinsville feel as if they've been cast to play bit parts in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds." And none of them want the role. The homeowners have become alarmed by the appearance of numerous ...
  • Vultures invade New Jersey town - Welland Tribune (08/Mar/2013)
    In a new twist on the Alfred Hitchcock film, a New Jersey town is battling an invasion of giant black vultures. About 130 of the scavengers have descended in a three- to four-block area in Bridgewater, reported NJ.com. When not circling overhead, they've been ...
  • Clever acting helps Langham Court's Hitchcock spoof soar - Victoria Times Colonist (09/Mar/2013)
    The actors cleverly play what seems like 100 mini-roles in The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's hilarious stage spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 flick. The army of characters includes travelling underwear salesmen, policemen, train conductors, agents, vaudeville ...
  • 'Hitchcock' stars Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, new on DVD and Blu-ray - Plain Dealer (09/Mar/2013)
    Hopkins dons heavy makeup to play colorful Alfred Hitchcock in this high-energy look at the making of a movie masterpiece. The corpulent genius wants to direct a quality horror film, but the studio won't finance "Psycho," so he mortgages his house and risks ...
  • The Bates Motel, before 'Psycho' - Bend Bulletin (10/Mar/2013)
    ALDERGROVE, British Columbia — The Bates, the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic, “Psycho," is a dreary motel that doesn't see a lot of customers, and those who do stop, like Janet Leigh (Anne Heche in the 1998 remake), sometimes never check ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock, real-life "Psycho" - Salon (10/Mar/2013)
    Despite being dead for almost 33 years, Alfred Hitchcock still managed to have a fairly interesting year in 2012. In addition to Vertigo's toppling of Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's decennial critics poll, the Master of Suspense also ...
  • Staying at the Bates: Welcome Back to the 'Psycho' Franchise - WordandFilm.com (11/Mar/2013)
    In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock released arguably his most famous film, “Psycho.” The movie became so iconic and such a huge part of film history; even those few viewers who haven't seen it are aware of the “shocking” twist ending wherein (Spoilers!) Norman ...
  • 'Bates Motel': Will it be a well-received prequel to the 'Psycho' legend? - Christian Science Monitor (11/Mar/2013)
    Before the movie “Psycho” was in theaters and after its release, director Alfred Hitchcock went to extreme lengths to preserve the secrecy of its twist ending, from telling stars Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh not to do interviews to forbidding latecomers from ...
  • Bates Motel Puts a New Twist on a Classic - Huffington Post (11/Mar/2013)
    Forty-three years after Alfred Hitchcock's cinema-changing film Psycho hit theaters for the first time, A&E debuts its new series Bates Motel, which digs deeper and expands on the unusual relationship between Norman Bates and his mother. With an all-star ...
  • Not So Scary Lesson From Alfred Hitchcock - Forbes (11/Mar/2013)
    This challenge is something that Alfred Hitchcock faced after the success of his movie North By Northwest. A critical as well as financial success, Hitchcock was searching for his next film. Then he came across a novel inspired by a serial murderer who kept the ...
  • The Lady Vanishes: Full scream ahead for the master's mystery woman - The Independent (11/Mar/2013)
    Widely regarded as our greatest ever film-maker, Alfred Hitchcock could be a despicable man. When Tippi Hedren, the star of The Birds, rejected his advances, he got an assistant to tail her every move to make sure she wasn't seeing any other men. He was ...
  • Vera Farmiga on Bates Motel and Deciding to Do Television - Vulture (11/Mar/2013)
    That's the jumping-off point for A&E's Bates Motel (premiering March 18 at ten), a sort of prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho in which mother and son have set up shop in Northern California following the mysterious — and bloody — death of ...
  • Watch The First 6 Minutes of 'Bates Motel' - Crave Online (11/Mar/2013)
    In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, the deranged bond between Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his mother was a focal point of the film. But Norman's absent father wasn't really dealt with. But that's not the case with “Bates Motel,” the upcoming prequel series ...
  • Checking into 'Bates Motel' at SXSW - USA TODAY (11/Mar/2013)
    AUSTIN — Carlton Cuse is crafting a slightly different twist on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its lodging setting. But fans of the classic thriller and Cuse's own iconic creation Lost should certainly check in when the series Bates Motel premieres March 18 (A&E, ...
  • Vera Farmiga Talks Deciding To Do TV And 'Bates Motel' - Huffington Post (11/Mar/2013)
    That's the jumping-off point for A&E's "Bates Motel" (premiering March 18 at ten), a sort of prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic "Psycho" in which mother and son have set up shop in Northern California following the mysterious -- and bloody -- death of ...
  • Exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from Hitchcock DVD and Blu-ray - Moviehole (11/Mar/2013)
    Following his great success with “North by Northwest,” director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel “Psycho.” When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to ...
  • Why falling car sales is bad news for almost everybody - Firstpost (12/Mar/2013)
    The great film director Alfred Hitchcock started making films in the early 1920s in Great Britain. This was the era of silent movies. But Hitchcock really came into his own once he moved to Hollywood, where he first made the very dark Rebecca in 1940. For the ...
  • What's on at the Haydn cinema this week (14 March – 20 March) - Austrian Times (12/Mar/2013)
    Hitchcock: A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of “Psycho” in 1959. Oz the Great and Powerful: A small-time magician arrives in an enchanted land and is forced to decide if he will be a good man ...
  • This Week in Home Video: Hitchcock, Life of Pi, Willow, Fraggle Rock - blogTO (blog) (12/Mar/2013)
    A lot of goodwill towards the man and the myth gets squandered here (along with an amazing cast) for a ghoulish cartoon costume party hosted by an Alfred Hitchcock fat suit. Not content with being a drama or a comedy, this strays into serious WTF territory ...
  • The 39 Steps is highly entertaining, comic fare - stv.tv (12/Mar/2013)
    John Buchan's classic adventure thriller about stiff upper lip hero Richard Hannay, trying to expose a sinister spy ring, while at the same time being pursued by the police for murder, was turned into a cinema classic by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935. And it's the ...
  • 'Life of Pi,' 'Hitchcock' Arrive on DVD, Blu-ray - Highbrow Magazine (12/Mar/2013)
    This is an excellent week for home video, as the new releases include a top-notch animated movie, a solid biopic about director Alfred Hitchcock and a drama that won four Academy Awards. Life of Pi. 4 stars (out of four) Rated PG. 20th Century Fox Available ...
  • Celebrate National Alfred Hitchcock Day Today! - Geeks of Doom (12/Mar/2013)
    Hitchcock helmed films such as Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Frenzy, Rope, and a multitude of others (15 of which are now collected on the Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray box set), creating a resume that ...
  • Super Stoked for 'Stoker' - New University Online (12/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock lives. Not literally, of course. Yet, with the legacy that he left behind, we can still sense his spirit flitting from frame to frame in almost any film where his influence is evident. Such is the case for “Stoker,” a creepy and explicit psychological thriller ...
  • 'The 39 Steps' opens at Darien Arts Center - Darien Times (12/Mar/2013)
    The Darien Arts Center Stage, is kicking off its first production in March with “The 39 Steps,” adapted from a novel by John Buchan and a 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. Patrick Barlow wrote the adaptation into a fast paced farce using two actors to play multiple ...
  • New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday March 12. - Castanet.net (12/Mar/2013)
    Hitchcock centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of Psycho, a controversial horror film that subsequently became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career.
  • Kourtney Kardashian Cries Over Scott Disick's Weight Loss Comments - Just Jared (12/Mar/2013)
    Hitchcock, starring Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, Anthony Hopkins, and Helen Mirren, is about the love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959. 1988 classic film Willow, starring Val ...
  • Anthony Hopkins finds common ground with Alfred Hitchock in latest role - 7DAYS (12/Mar/2013)
    Sir Anthony Hopkins is one of Britain's most revered and beloved actors and now he takes on the role of Sir Alfred Hitchcock... .., one of the most influential film directors in the history of motion pictures. A great parallel between the two titans of the film world is ...
  • Hitchcock class set to thrill students - Gulf Coast News Today (12/Mar/2013)
    It is no wonder that “Vertigo” was created by one of the most famous 20th century directors, the Master of Suspense, the inimitable Alfred Hitchcock. Presenting Hitchcock, a non-credit class, will be offered for the first time by the University of South Alabama ...
  • 'Bates Motel' Series Premiere: Watch the First 6 Minutes Now - Screen Rant (12/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho has inspired three sequels, a shot-for-shot remake, Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock, and a slew of other projects, and yet there is still an appetite for more, an appetite that many hope will be satiated by A&E's Bates Motel, which just ...
  • Home Video: 'Life of Pi,' 'Hitchcock' are worth your time - Chillicothe Gazette (12/Mar/2013)
    This film image released by Fox Searchlight shows Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, left, Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, center, and Helen Mirren as Alma Reville in 'Hitchcock.' (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight, Suzanne Tenner) / AP. More. The trickle of ...
  • Hitchcock DVD Review: Psycho About A Director - Movie Fanatic (12/Mar/2013)
    With the arrival of Hitchcock on DVD and Blu-Ray, those who missed an instant classic when it arrived in theaters should get right in line to pick up this astounding story of how the suspense master made Psycho. Anthony Hopkins is astounding as Alfred ...
  • Home Video: 'Life of Pi,' 'Hitchcock' are worth your time - Mansfield News Journal (12/Mar/2013)
    This film image released by Fox Searchlight shows Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, left, Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, center, and Helen Mirren as Alma Reville in 'Hitchcock.' (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight, Suzanne Tenner) / AP. More. The trickle of ...
  • 5 Recent Films Influenced by Alfred Hitchcock - Screen Rant (12/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock isn't just "The Master of Suspense," he's one of the trail-blazing and more influential filmmakers who was active in the twentieth century (if not the most influential). Hitch was immortalized in last year's cinematic memoir Hitchcock, but his ...
  • 'Bates Motel,' an eccentric prequel to Psycho - San Antonio Current (12/Mar/2013)
    A prequel series based on Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror masterpiece about a misfit's murderous fixation on his mother? The eccentric Bates Motel gives you reason for hope, starting with the actress cast as the mother: Vera Farmiga of Up in the Air.
  • Couch Patrol: The Killing Before The Killing - Aquarian Weekly (13/Mar/2013)
    One has misgivings about a prequel series based on Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror masterpiece about a misfit's murderous fixation on his mother. But the eccentric Bates Motel gives you reason for hope, starting with the actress cast as the mother: ...
  • 'Stoker' is a high-falutin' horror flick - STLtoday.com (13/Mar/2013)
    Despite its title, the most obvious influence on this tale about a creepy uncle putting the bite on his nubile niece is not Bram Stoker's “Dracula” but Alfred Hitchcock's “Shadow of a Doubt.” The pretty, primal images are like leaves from Terrence Malick's “Tree of ...
  • Bay Area repertory film picks, March 14-17 - San Francisco Chronicle (13/Mar/2013)
    Ongoing Hitchcock: It is a testament to Alfred Hitchcock's greatness that movie fans continue to flock to repertory houses to see his films in a theater setting, even as his work is almost completely available on Blu-ray and DVD. He is, for many, the ultimate ...
  • Watch The First Six Minutes Of New Psycho Prequel Bates Motel - Pedestrian TV (13/Mar/2013)
    It won't premiere on US cable network A&E til March 18th but since this is The Internet you can now watch the first six minutes of drama/psychological thriller TV series Bates Motel, a contemporary-set prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's nightmare inducing 1960 ...
  • 'Bates Motel' fills a vacancy - Houston Chronicle (blog) (13/Mar/2013)
    A&E's "Bates Motel" is kind of a mess, but that's one of the reasons it's fun to watch. The drama is, of course, based on Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and the novel by Robert Bloch. Technically, it's a prequel, focusing on Norman Bates before he went off the deep ...
  • Watch the first six minutes of Bates Motel - Flickering Myth (blog) (13/Mar/2013)
    There's just under a week to go until the premiere of Bates Motel on A&E, and if you're still undecided about whether to catch Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin's (Friday Night Lights) contemporary prequel series to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece ...
  • Bates Motel: Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore on Creating a Killer - IGN (13/Mar/2013)
    Bates Motel, the contemporized prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror Psycho, is set to premiere this Monday, March 18 on A&E. Co-created by Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) Bates Motel explores how Norman Bates' (Freddie ...
  • TV review: 'Bates Motel' - Las Vegas Weekly (13/Mar/2013)
    It features iconic elements from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho, including the title location and the ominous house on a hill overlooking it. It stars the teenage version of one of the most well-known characters in horror fiction and cinema, Norman Bates.
  • Baylor Theatre romps with '39 Steps' - Waco Tribune-Herald (13/Mar/2013)
    In the hands of a master storyteller like film director Alfred Hitchcock, who adapted the novel for his 1935 film of the same name, those elements combine for nail-biting suspense. Baylor Theatre's “The 39 Steps,” however, adds those elements together for ...
  • Bates Motel: Many will check in, few will check out - Daily Trojan Online (14/Mar/2013)
    Fifty-three years ago, Alfred Hitchcock chilled moviegoers with the release of Psycho, one of the only horror films to make it onto the American Film Institute's top-100 list, Psycho tells the story of an attractive 30-something secretary who steals a lump sum of ...
  • DVD tip: "Hitchcock" - TheDay.com (14/Mar/2013)
    It focuses on Alfred Hitchcock's making of "Psycho" and his fraught relationship with his wife, who was also his behind-the-scenes collaborator. The movie tosses in some odd notes, most notably sequences of Hitchcock imagining conversations with the real ...
  • The 39 Steps at the Lyceum - Dinnington Today (14/Mar/2013)
    Direct from the West End and Broadway the Olivier Award winning production of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, is coming to Sheffield's Lyceum Theatre. Follow the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff-upper-lip, ...
  • 'Bates Motel' opens for business on A&E - Los Angeles Times (14/Mar/2013)
    "Bates Motel" is a sort-of prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 standard set to roll out Monday on A&E. The new series, from Carlton Cuse ("Lost") and Kerry Ehrin ("Friday Night Lights"), tracks the notorious psychopath during his adolescent years in the present ...
  • New A&E series looks at roots of a psycho relationship - Winnipeg Free Press (14/Mar/2013)
    In partnership with writer/producer Kerry Ehrin, Cuse has produced Bates Motel, a spooky new A&E drama series that takes the people and places made famous in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller and places them in a pre-Psycho storyline that's set in the present.
  • Viau's View/Scott Viau - Daily Mining Gazette (14/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock is hot off his latest hit, "North By Northwest," when he's asked by a critic if he shouldn't just quit while he's ahead. This inspires Hitchcock to find something that will be truly terrifying and prove wrong those who think he should just retire.
  • Movie review: Hitchcock - The National (14/Mar/2013)
    While 2012's TV movie The Girl followed Alfred Hitchcock's reportedly obsessive relationship with the actress Tippi Hedren during the filming of The Birds (as played by Toby Jones and Sienna Miller), this biopic has Anthony Hopkins donning the padded ...
  • 'Stoker' is a high-falutin' horror flick - STLtoday.com (14/Mar/2013)
    Despite its title, the most obvious influence on this tale about a creepy uncle putting the bite on his nubile niece is not Bram Stoker's “Dracula” but Alfred Hitchcock's “Shadow of a Doubt.” The pretty, primal images are like leaves from Terrence Malick's “Tree of ...
  • Zimbio Review - 'Stoker' and the Art of Modern Gothic Horror - Zimbio (14/Mar/2013)
    If you ripped Tim Burton's brain out of his head and put it in a blender with David Lynch's and Alfred Hitchcock's, what you see in Stoker might pour out. Park Chan-wook's stylized American horror story is porn for movie geeks in the same vein as modern films ...
  • In A&E's 'Bates Motel,' a teenage boy meets more than one psycho - Washington Post (14/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho” has stuck with us for five decades for many reasons, not all of them having to do with a shower curtain. As film scholar David Thomson and others have noted, “Pyscho” was pure, perfect provocation marketed as being so frightening ...
  • TV Trailer: A&E's 'Bates Motel' - TVWise (14/Mar/2013)
    Created by Carlton Cuse, Bates Motel was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and is a contemporary exploration of the formative years of Norman Bates' relationship with his mother, Norma, and the world they inhabit. The series explores the dark, twisted ...
  • “Bates Motel” series delves into the past of “Psycho” killer - Channel Guide Magazine (blog) (14/Mar/2013)
    In the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho, embezzling secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is on her way from Phoenix to her boyfriend's California home when a pounding rainstorm forces her to take shelter in the dilapidated Bates Motel, run by the ...
  • 'Bates Motel' review: Norman's 'Psycho' path - San Francisco Chronicle (14/Mar/2013)
    The drama is, of course, based on Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," and the novel by Robert Bloch. Technically, it's a prequel, focusing on Norman Bates before he went off the deep end, and on his mother before she became beef jerky on a rope. But because ...
  • Before 'Psycho' And Agony in Paradise - Wall Street Journal (14/Mar/2013)
    "Bates Motel" is a prequel of sorts to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller, "Psycho," so we know from the beginning how it will end. The bigger challenge for the makers of this new A&E show is that many of the cinematic and social conventions that Hitchcock ...
  • 'Bates Motel' delves into the past of a 'Psycho' killer - NewsOK.com (14/Mar/2013)
    In the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Psycho,” embezzling secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is on her way from Phoenix to her boyfriend's California home when a pounding rainstorm forces her to take shelter in the dilapidated Bates Motel, run by the ...
  • 'Stoker' review: It's no Hitchcock - Newsday (subscription) (14/Mar/2013)
    In Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Shadow of a Doubt," Joseph Cotten's homicidal Uncle Charlie was a human malignancy, made more so by the pure America that surrounded him. The people of Santa Rosa were so goofily innocent -- including his niece, also ...
  • Review: 'Bates Motel,' TV prequel to 'Psycho,' is properly cuckoo - The Detroit News (14/Mar/2013)
    The very idea of concocting a modern-day, prequel TV series to Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Psycho" was two-parts heresy to three-parts sensationalism. But it's also kind of interesting, offering up a portrait of a young madman-to-be and his over-protective ...
  • New DVDs this week - Sacramento Bee (15/Mar/2013)
    "Hitchcock" (PG-13, 98 minutes, Fox): For all his creepy tendencies, Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed mostly sympathetically in "Hitchcoc." Anthony Hopkins plays the corpulent British auteur with a combination of hauteur and playfulness. Sacha Gervasi has made ...
  • A&E's 'Bates Motel' fills in the gaps in 'Psycho' - STLtoday.com (15/Mar/2013)
    A&E's “Bates Motel” isn't exactly a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho.” Yes, there's a young Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore); there's his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga); and there's the creepy house that plays such a horrifying role in the 1960 movie.
  • Bates Motel is an appealingly eccentric prequel to Psycho - Isthmus (15/Mar/2013)
    One has misgivings about a prequel series based on Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror masterpiece about a misfit's murderous fixation on his mother. But the eccentric Bates Motel (Monday, 9 p.m., A&E) offers reason for hope, starting with the actress ...
  • Stoker and the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock - Patheos (blog) (15/Mar/2013)
    The key to Stoker—the cinematic, moody new film from Park Chan-wook that owes a heavy debt to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943)—is in the opening voiceover from India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska), the daughter of Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) and ...
  • Check in to A&E's 'Bates Motel' - London Free Press (15/Mar/2013)
    Or rather, I've changed one of my reservations about Bates Motel, which debuts Monday on A&E. As far as the framework of the story goes, Bates Motel is a prequel to the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie Psycho. But Bates Motel is set in current times.
  • BBC should apologise for misrepresenting Sir Alfred Hitchcock, says author - The Independent (15/Mar/2013)
    The author of a new book about Sir Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Birds has called on the BBC to apologise to the director's family over his portrayal as a “lascivious letch” in recent drama The Girl, and withdraw the DVD. Tony Moral, whose book The Making of ...
  • Tennent grad in A&E's 'Psycho' prequel (copy) - phillyBurbs.com (15/Mar/2013)
    The series focuses on a young Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his mother (Vera Farmiga) and has been described as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic, "Psycho." Vogel, 33, has a lengthy list of acting credits — most recently the ABC series ...
  • Movies too scary to see a second time - San Francisco Chronicle (blog) (15/Mar/2013)
    In this 1960 file photo, actress Janet Leigh appears as Marion Crane in the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic thriller "Psycho." Hitchcock’s “Psycho†is a film that 53 years after its shocking premiere still hasn’t released audiences ...
  • Out of Frame: Stoker - DCist.com (15/Mar/2013)
    One Uncle Charlie has a deep, even telepathic connection with his niece in Shadow of a Doubt, Alfred Hitchcock's study of the unexpected violence that can mark even the most ordinary small town. Hitchcock's Uncle Charlie was played by Joseph Cotton, ...
  • Tennent grad in A&E's 'Psycho' prequel - phillyBurbs.com (15/Mar/2013)
    The series focuses on a young Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his mother (Vera Farmiga) and has been described as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic, "Psycho." Vogel, 33, has a lengthy list of acting credits — most recently the ABC series ...
  • Vera Farmiga drawn warped, contradictory Norman Bates in TV thriller - Calgary Herald (15/Mar/2013)
    ... of Norma Bates, the iconic character she plays in the new, revisionist TV thriller Bates Motel, she didn't think much about who Norman Bates' mother was, or what happened to make her the person she became in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film classic Psycho.
  • A&E's 'Bates Motel' fills a vacancy - Pioneer Press (15/Mar/2013)
    The drama is, of course, based on Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," and the novel by Robert Bloch. Technically, it's a prequel, focusing on Norman Bates before he went off the deep end, and on his mother before she became beef jerky on a rope. But because ...
  • A&E's 'Bates Motel' is prequel to 'Psycho' - Newsday (15/Mar/2013)
    In the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, "Psycho," embezzling secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is on her way from Phoenix to her boyfriend's California home when a pounding rainstorm forces her to take shelter in the dilapidated Bates Motel, run by the ...
  • Abusive mom role a 'playground' for actress - Windsor Star (15/Mar/2013)
    ... of Norma Bates, the iconic character she plays in the new, revisionist TV thriller Bates Motel, she didn't think much about who Norman Bates' mother was, or what happened to make her the person she became in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film classic Psycho.
  • Norma Bates role 'playground' for actress - StarPhoenix (16/Mar/2013)
    ... of Norma Bates, the iconic character she plays in the new, revisionist TV thriller Bates Motel, she didn't think much about who Norman Bates's mother was, or what happened to make her the person she became in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film classic Psycho.
  • Norma Bates role 'playground' for actress - StarPhoenix (16/Mar/2013)
    ... of Norma Bates, the iconic character she plays in the new, revisionist TV thriller Bates Motel, she didn't think much about who Norman Bates's mother was, or what happened to make her the person she became in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film classic Psycho.
  • "Hitchcock was no lascivious lech" - Yahoo! Movies UK (16/Mar/2013)
    Mr Moral who has written new book about Sir Alfred Hitchcock thriller 'The Birds' has called on the BBC to apologise to the director's family and withdraw the DVD. Toby Jones portrayed Hitchcock in 'The Girl' (Credit: Wenn). In 'The Independent' newspaper, ...
  • Sunday night, be sure to check into Bates Motel - Hamilton Spectator (16/Mar/2013)
    AUSTIN — Carlton Cuse is crafting a slightly different twist on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its lodging setting. But fans of the classic thriller and Cuse's own iconic creation Lost should certainly check in when the series Bates Motel premieres Sunday night on ...
  • ASK THE BIRD FOLKS: Payback's a… bird? - The Bourne Courier (16/Mar/2013)
    I just saw the movie Hitchcock, about the movie director Alfred Hitchcock. Most of the movie is centered around his film, Psycho, but at the very end there was a subtle hint about his next movie, The Birds. That got me wondering if The Birds was based on any ...
  • On A&E's Bates Motel, Mother and Son are Just a Little Bit Psycho - Comic Book Resources (16/Mar/2013)
    ... Men than with The Walking Dead: Despite claims by showrunner Carlton Cuse (Lost) that Bates Motel isn't a period piece, classic cars and black-and-white movies are scattered throughout the first episode, paying homage to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic.
  • Before mommy became mummy - Indian Express (16/Mar/2013)
    The Bates, the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho, is a dreary motel that doesn't see a lot of customers, and those who do stop, like Janet Leigh (Anne Heche in the 1998 remake), sometimes never check out. It has been reincarnated on a quiet ...
  • Remaking Hitchcock's masterpiece - Express.co.uk (16/Mar/2013)
    So there's no great mystery as to why it was made into a flm in 1938 by legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood, or why now, 75 years later, the BBC has shot a new one-off adaptation of the gripping tale of intrigue and suspense.
  • Mysterious king of mysteries - Deccan Herald (16/Mar/2013)
    Two new feature films on Alfred Hitchcock — one starring Anthony Hopkins as the master of suspense, and the other Toby Jones as the dark genius — and both are none too flattering. After dozens of books on Hitchcock, scores of articles and several ...
  • The Lady Vanishes - Radio Times (16/Mar/2013)
    The Lady Vanishes is a beloved 1938 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, a delicious confection of chirpy nonsense starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Inexplicably it's been remade by the BBC, with Tuppence Middleton and Tom Hughes (louche Julian ...
  • Hitchcock Exclusive Giveaway: Win the Blu-Ray! - Movie Fanatic (16/Mar/2013)
    The film stars Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife Alma. Hitchcock DVD. As teased in the Hitchcock trailer, explored deeply in the film and is also widely known in film history, the helmer was a big fan of ...
  • The Lady Vanishes - This is South Wales (16/Mar/2013)
    And with a bit of luck you will have forgotten who did actually do it if you haven't seen the classic Alfred Hitchcock version lately. This adaptation sees the splendidly named Tuppence Middleton as Iris, a carefree girl whose world comes crashing down when ...
  • 'Psycho' babble - New York Post (16/Mar/2013)
    As show runner of the new A&E series “Bates Motel” — a prequel of sorts to Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 film “Psycho” — Cuse sees developing a previously nonexistent back story for the movie as an engaging and worthy endeavor, both for him and a ...
  • 'Bates Motel' delves into twisted mind of young Norman - Boston Herald (16/Mar/2013)
    A&E reboots the legend of Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho,” but “Bates Motel” plays like a slow-burning riff on David Lynch's “Twin Peaks” sparked by some fascinating, nuanced performances. This story — set in the present — finds 17-year-old Norman (Freddie ...
  • 3/18: 'Bates Motel' acts like prequel to 'Pscho' on A&E - Arizona Republic (16/Mar/2013)
    In a re-imagining of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic “Psycho,” Freddie Highmore stars as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as his overprotective mother, Norma Bates, in A&E's new series "Bates Motel." Joe Lederer. SHARE URL EMAIL. Tweet. FONT: A A A ...
  • The Lady Vanishes: can you improve on Hitchcock? - Telegraph.co.uk (17/Mar/2013)
    However, Hawes is on location for something quite different: a BBC One remake of the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Lady Vanishes, in which she plays the philandering “glamourpuss”, the fraudulently named Mrs Todhunter. “I'm basically having an affair ...
  • The Lady Vanishes: Tom Hughes on remaking Hitchcock - Radio Times (17/Mar/2013)
    Most of us are familiar with Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes - the comic thriller that set the British director up for the celebrated Hollywood career that gave us Psycho and Vertigo. This Sunday the BBC broadcasts its own version of the 1938 classic, ...
  • Vera Farmiga drawn warped, contradictory Norman Bates in TV thriller - Calgary Herald (17/Mar/2013)
    ... of Norma Bates, the iconic character she plays in the new, revisionist TV thriller Bates Motel, she didn't think much about who Norman Bates' mother was, or what happened to make her the person she became in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film classic Psycho.
  • Birds sky view - Darlington and Stockton Times (17/Mar/2013)
    In a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 movie, "The Birds," observers gasped at the natural phenomenon which turned the skies black. The birds hovered over fields at dusk, coming together in huge clouds, before wheeling, turning and ...
  • A&E's Bates Motel Treats Psycho Backstory with Respect and Reverence - Reel Life With Jane (17/Mar/2013)
    This contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho” takes us into the psyche of young Norman Bates, played by Freddie Highmore in a role that's sure to make us forget his sweet-kid characters in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “August Rush.” ...
  • Has A&E gone psycho with 'Bates Motel'? - USA TODAY (17/Mar/2013)
    So A&E gives us Bates Motel (Mondays at 10 ET/PT; **½ out of four), a series prequel to the Alfred Hitchcock classic that — despite excellent performances by Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga as Norman and his mother, Norma, and the off-camera ...
  • Mother, as She Lives and Breathes - New York Times (17/Mar/2013)
    A series called “Bates Motel” can't open with a shower scene. But since this new drama, starting Monday on A&E, is, after all, a prequel of sorts to the movie “Psycho,” homage had to be paid to Alfred Hitchcock upfront. The creators went with that director's sly ...
  • The Lady Vanishes, BBC One, review - Telegraph.co.uk (17/Mar/2013)
    I dimly recalled the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same story being a paragon of verisimilitude in contrast, but upon seeing that version again discovered this was nonsense. Hitchcock's mix of japery and mystery, with the Laurel and Hardy-esque pair Charters ...
  • The Lady Vanishes (BBC) Review - TV Equals (17/Mar/2013)
    The BBC's one-off drama adaptation of The Lady Vanishes, a remake of the famous Alfred Hitchcock movie based on Ethel Lina White's 'The Wheel Spins', is the sort of thing you'd expect to find showing on a Sunday afternoon over the bank holiday weekend.
  • Bates Motel: Slow-burning, brooding and a mess of Oedipal madness - Globe and Mail (17/Mar/2013)
    Oh, mama. If your taste runs to Twin Peaks-type perversity, murder and erotically charged mother-and-son relationships, there's a good one tonight. Bates Motel (A&E 9 p.m.) is a riff on the Psycho story so memorably told by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960 movie.
  • “Bates Motel” Premiere Works Best When Not Being “Psycho”; Review - HeadlinePlanet.com (17/Mar/2013)
    Nearly everyone tuning into Monday's “Bates Motel” premiere will be doing so out of admiration for Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho” horror franchise. But from a quality standpoint, that reality is the worst burden one could ever impose on A&E's buzzworthy new ...
  • TV review: 'Bates Motel' weirder than just Norman-Norma - RedEye Chicago (blog) (17/Mar/2013)
    someone asks in the third episode of "Bates Motel," A&E's update and prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." Maybe they should be asking, "What's wrong with Norman's new town?" The Norman in question is Norman Bates, the knife-wielding maniac played ...
  • 'Bates Motel' premieres on A&E - NorthJersey.com (17/Mar/2013)
    That's what you may find yourself wondering as you watch "Bates Motel," A&E's intriguing new "contemporary" prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." Here we meet a Norman Bates who is so shy and sweet-looking, you almost find yourself rooting for him, ...
  • Norma Bates role a 'playground' - Regina Leader-Post (17/Mar/2013)
    ... of Norma Bates, the iconic character she plays in the new, revisionist TV thriller Bates Motel, she didn't think much about who Norman Bates's mother was, or what happened to make her the person she became in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film classic Psycho.
  • Bates Motel actress Farmiga warms up to her character - The Province (18/Mar/2013)
    "Quite frankly," Vera Farmiga says of Norma Bates, the character she plays in the new, revisionist TV thriller Bates Motel, she didn't think much about who Norman Bates' mother was, or what happened to make her the person she became in Alfred Hitchcock's ...
  • BBC1's The Lady Vanishes is no match for Alfred Hitchcock - MSN UK News (18/Mar/2013)
    Ethel Lina White's The Wheel Spins is best-known as an early Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave (celebrating its 75th anniversary this year), so this version faced an uphill struggle from the start. "The Lady Vanishes ...
  • Starling flock turns sky over village dark - The Northern Echo (18/Mar/2013)
    In a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 movie, "The Birds," observers gasped at the natural phenomenon which turned the skies black. The birds hovered over fields at dusk, coming together in huge clouds, before wheeling, turning and ...
  • A&E's 'Bates Motel' harbors many secrets - Capecodonline (18/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" has stuck with us for five decades for many reasons, not all of them having to do with a shower curtain. As film scholar David Thomson and others have noted, "Psycho" was pure, perfect provocation marketed as being so frightening ...
  • Bates Motel: When adult horror takes a stab at Hitchcock - Globe and Mail (18/Mar/2013)
    Oh, mama. If your taste runs to Twin Peaks-type perversity, murder and erotically charged mother-and-son relationships, there's a good one tonight. Bates Motel (A&E 9 p.m.) is a riff on the Psycho story so memorably told by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960 movie.
  • Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a Psycho? - Seattle Post Intelligencer (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind A&E's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds. A&E's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a ...
  • 'Bates Motel': Why you should watch it - Los Angeles Times (18/Mar/2013)
    The TV series is a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's horror classic from 1960 starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. The series attempts to tell the story of how Norman came to be Norman, the motel proprietor under the thumb of a mother long dead.
  • TV Review: Check in to A&E's Creepy, Fun 'Bates Motel' - HollywoodChicago.com (18/Mar/2013)
    This contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's timeless “Psycho” from executive producers Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (“Friday Night Lights”) brings Norman and his mother Norma Bates to the 21st century with all their creepy secrets intact.
  • 'Bates Motel' prequel series debuts Monday night - 9NEWS.com (18/Mar/2013)
    KUSA - Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho" is coming back to the spotlight as a TV show. "Bates Motel" is a prequel series to the film about Norman Bates, a now famous serial killer. Executive producers of the show include Carlton Cuse from "Lost" and Kerry ...
  • What to watch this week in TV: Psycho prequel series Bates Motel and more - CultureMap Austin (18/Mar/2013)
    In this prequel series to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho by Lost's Carlton Cuse, the sadistic, lascivious air between Norman (Freddie Highmore) and Norma (a powerhouse Vera Farmiga) Bates casts an eerie, creepy ambience — with a relationship overflowing with ...
  • 'Bates Motel' Premieres Tonight - About - News & Issues (18/Mar/2013)
    But tonight, cable network A&E will air a prequel of sorts to Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror thriller Psycho (1960). Part thriller, part psychological study, part coming-of-age story about teenage angst, Bates Motel is a contemporary glimpse into the life of ...
  • 'Bates Hotel' explores how Norman became 'Psycho' - Fresno Bee (18/Mar/2013)
    PASADENA -- In the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock horror film "Psycho," it was made clear how things turned out for cinema's best-known mama's boy. What the new A&E series "The Bates Motel" wants to do is provide some insight into just what would make a loving ...
  • Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a Psycho? - Teutopolis Press-Dieterich Gazette (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind AE's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds.AE's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a teenage ...
  • TV review: 'Bates Motel' weirder than just Norman-Norma - RedEye Chicago (blog) (18/Mar/2013)
    someone asks in the third episode of "Bates Motel," A&E's update and prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." Maybe they should be asking, "What's wrong with Norman's new town?" The Norman in question is Norman Bates, the knife-wielding maniac played ...
  • Channel Surfer: Tonight's TV - Amarillo.com (blog) (18/Mar/2013)
    Up first: A&E's "Bates Motel" (9 p.m. on cable channel 31), a set-in-modern-times prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Freddie Highmore ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") as a teenage Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga ("Up in the Air") as his ...
  • Two New TV Dramas Look Below The Surface - WWNO (18/Mar/2013)
    Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga are Norman and Norma Bates — eeew — in Bates Motel, the new A&E prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Originally published on Mon March 18, 2013 12:48 pm. Listen. Top of the Lake, a new seven-part miniseries ...
  • 'Bates Motel': Don't bother checking in - Dailyrecord.com (18/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterwork is one of the key cinematic shockers of all time, so of course it sets the bar prohibitively high for any project looking to capitalize on the fame of “Psycho” (just ask Gus Van Sant, director of the full-color, shot-for-shot 1998 ...
  • 50th Anniversary of Hitchcock's 'The Birds' on Encore March 28 (VIDEO) - Monsters and Critics.com (18/Mar/2013)
    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, “The Master of Suspense” and based on the story by Daphne Du Maurier. This iconic thriller stars Golden Globe® winning actress Tippi Hedren (Return to Babylon (2013), Jayne Mansfield's Car), Rod Taylor (Inglourious Bastards, ...
  • Two New TV Dramas Look Below The Surface - WFDD (18/Mar/2013)
    Credit A&E. Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga are Norman and Norma Bates — eeew — in Bates Motel, the new A&E prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Listen. Top of the Lake, a new seven-part miniseries premiering tonight on the Sundance Channel, ...
  • Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a Psycho? - Daily Ardmoreite (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind AE's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds.AE's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a teenage ...
  • Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a Psycho? - MetroWest Daily News (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind A&E's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds. A&E's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a ...
  • Today's News: Our Take - Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a ... - Nebraska City News Press (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind AE's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds.AE's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a teenage ...
  • A&E invites viewers to check-in to 'Bates Motel' with tonight's premiere - Examiner.com (18/Mar/2013)
    It was then audiences should have been tipped off to the crazy twists still to come that would make Alfred Hitchock's “Psycho” an instant classic. Yet what while much has been made about Perkins' Norman Bates character in the decades since the film's ...
  • 'Bates Motel' Gets Mixed Reviews – Should You Tune In? - KpopStarz (18/Mar/2013)
    Bates Motel is the A&E prequel series to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. It premieres Monday, March 18th, but will so many mixed reviews, should you bother tuning in? Bates Motel looks into the mind of an angst-filled teenage Norman Bates to get to ...
  • 5 Facts About Freddie Highmore, Your New Norman Bates On Bates Motel - Crushable (18/Mar/2013)
    Freddie's now taking on the role made famous by Anthony Perkins in Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror film Psycho. Bates Motel, from Lost's Carlton Cuse, is a contemporary prequel that examines the relationship between a young Norman Bates and his ...
  • Series debut: Bates Motel, Monday March 18, 10 pm ET on A&E - Montreal Gazette (blog) (18/Mar/2013)
    So it's back to the Bates Motel, of Alfred Hitchcock Psycho fame (let's not talk about the Gus Van Zant / Vince Vaughn version from 1998). It's a prequel to the 1960 tale of Norman and his mom and their cozy roadside inn. Well, a prequel to the 1960 Psycho that ...
  • A&E's 'Bates Motel' delves into the past of a 'Psycho' killer - Zap2it.com (blog) (18/Mar/2013)
    In the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho," embezzling secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is on her way from Phoenix to her boyfriend's California home when a pounding rainstorm forces her to take shelter in the dilapidated Bates Motel, run by the ...
  • Seitz on Bates Motel: I Dismember Mama - Vulture (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Robert Bloch's novel and Alfred Hitchcock's same-named film, it revolves around a troubled young man named Norman Bates (Freddy Highmore, who played Charlie in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). But where Norman's mother was, ...
  • Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a Psycho? - Newton Press Mentor (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind AE's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds.AE's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a teenage ...
  • 'Bates Motel' review: Putting the why in 'Psycho' - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (18/Mar/2013)
    In brief: A "contemporary prequel" to the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic "Psycho," "Bates Motel" boasts a first-rate cast and an intriguingly creepy expansion of the original story's universe. New Jersey's own Vera Farmiga ("Up in the Air") fleshes out (both ...
  • Vera Farmiga Gets Ready To Go 'Psycho' - Hollywood Outbreak (18/Mar/2013)
    The series will depict Norman Bates and his mother Norma before the events of the iconic 1960 film, Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Bates Hotel star Vera Farmiga, who plays the mother of Norma Bates, says that very little was known about her character ...
  • Bates Motel A&E's New Thriller Series - HispanicBusiness.com (18/Mar/2013)
    The series, which begins its 10-episode run Monday, doesn't make the mistake of trying to channel Alfred Hitchcock. It brings its own style of spine-tingling dysfunction to the screen. And this present-day Norman is a very different animal when he arrives in the ...
  • Tennent Grad to Appear in 'Bates Motel' on A&E - Patch.com (18/Mar/2013)
    The series is touted as a prequel to the 1960's Alfred Hitchcock horror classic "Psycho." Vogel will play Deputy Zach Shelby, a character described as “a completely engaging, attractive, intelligent sociopath,” on the actor's website. Vogel, 33, graduated from ...
  • Today's News: Our Take - Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a ... - Wellington Daily News (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind AE's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds.AE's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a teenage ...
  • 'Bates Motel' Star Freddie Highmore Talks Playing A Teen Norman Bates - Socialite Life (18/Mar/2013)
    In the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock horror film Psycho, we were introduced to Norman Bates and is murderous ways. What the new A&E series The Bates Motel wants to do is provide some insight into just what would make a loving son keep his mummified mom ...
  • Today's News: Our Take - Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a ... - Penn Yan Chronicle-Express (blog) (18/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind AE's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds.AE's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a teenage ...
  • Blu-ray Review: Hitchcock - Blogcritics.org (blog) (18/Mar/2013)
    Make no mistake, the 2012 film Hitchcock is not a biopic about the acclaimed director. Based on the non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello, the film tells the story of one of the director's most famous films. I should say ...
  • 'Bates Motel' premiere poll: What did you think of A&E's 'Psycho' prequel? - Zap2it.com (blog) (18/Mar/2013)
    The show's executive producers -- Carlton Cuse ("Lost") and Kerry Ehrin ("Friday Night Lights") -- have been very clear to point out that "Bates Motel" is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 movie classic, but also stands on its own. That's part of the reason it's ...
  • Bates Motel: Save It or Sink It - E! Online (18/Mar/2013)
    A&E is counting on your business after the series premiere of their new drama Bates Motel, a contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho starring Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga. Now that the highly-anticipated series has ...
  • Bates Motel Review: Will You Check In? - TV Fanatic (18/Mar/2013)
    While you might easily label the ambitious A&E series - created by Lost alum Carlton Cuse and Parenthood writer Kerry Ehrin - a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho, the producers have said to look at this as 'inspired by' rather than an 'homage' to ...
  • 'Bates Motel' Series Premiere Recap and Review - Screen Rant (18/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's famous explanation about the real difference between surprise and suspense – a bomb exploding with no warning vs. being forewarned about the bomb in advance – lies at the heart of the difference between his film Psycho (based on the ...
  • New 'Bates Motel' Preview Trailer: Will Norman Go 'Psycho' This Season? - ScreenCrush (18/Mar/2013)
    At long last, A&E's new horrifying prequel 'Psycho' series 'Bates Motel' has finally premiered, beginning the journey that takes Norman Bates and his troubling mother Norma into the putrid pair that we remember from Alfred Hitchcock's classic film. Along the ...
  • That Controversial "Bates Motel" Scene - BuzzFeed (18/Mar/2013)
    Not that Bates Motel, A&E's Psycho prequel, would ever be for the squeamish — we all know where Alfred Hitchcock's story went, after all — but the pilot's brutal rape and subsequent murder is certainly designed to swat away any dilettantes. Halfway through ...
  • Bates Motel: How Does Norman Bates Become a Psycho? - Chillicothe Constitution Tribune (19/Mar/2013)
    Like Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, the producers behind AE's new drama series Bates Motel seem to be of two minds.AE's prequel, which premieres Monday at 10/9c and stars Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore as a teenage ...
  • 'Psycho' gets modern-day twist in new TV series 'Bates Motel' - review - Digital Spy (19/Mar/2013)
    Black-and-white terror, a piercing soundtrack, *that* shower scene - Alfred Hitchcock's original Psycho is so indelibly etched into the public consciousness that, when it comes to any new attempt to bring Robert Bloch's horror novel to the screen, critics are ...
  • Bates Motel Premiere: First You Dream, Then You Die - Cinema Blend (19/Mar/2013)
    Despite being a 'prequel' to Alfred Hitchcock's classic slasher flick Psycho, the new take from Carlton Cuse, the co-creator of Lost, and Kerry Ehrin, of Friday Night Lights, takes place in modern times and features a young Norman Bates, not to mention his very ...
  • Hitchcock's Earliest Films to Tour US - New York Times (blog) (19/Mar/2013)
    With a film and TV movie about Alfred Hitchcock and even a new TV series based on his work, fans of the iconic director have had a lot to check out recently. Now add nine more films, black-and-white silents that constitute his earliest-surviving work and will be ...
  • Check into the 'Bates Motel' for psychological thrills & chills - Examiner.com (19/Mar/2013)
    So much of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, including famous lines like that, are now so known that they almost play comically. To do something serious with the universally known story of Norman Bates and his legendary mother fixation in today's cynical ...
  • Video: Fashion week first-timer inspired by Hitchcock - Montreal Gazette (19/Mar/2013)
    Up-and-coming Canadian designer Matthew Gallagher says he draws inspiration from the elegant tailoring found in Alfred Hitchcock films. Gallagher is set to debut his collection at Toronto's MasterCard Fashion Week. © Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette ...
  • 'Bates Motel' relies on a fifty-year-old allure - Timesonline.com (19/Mar/2013)
    Every cinefile, every movie guru has watched and re-watched Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film “Psycho.” (Some have also partaken in Vince Vaughn's failed attempt to remake the film, nearly shot for shot, in 1998.) The story of Norman Bates, keeper of the ...
  • "Bates Motel" Premiere Recap: Will You Check In Again? - AfterElton.com (19/Mar/2013)
    Bates Motel, the original series that modernizes Alfred Hitchcock's tale of motel proprietor Norman Bates while exploring his childhood back-story, is not that intriguing, no matter how much of myself I project onto it. Based on the pilot, which debuted on A&E ...
  • Ratings: 'Bates Motel' Scares Up an A&E High for Dramas - TheWrap (19/Mar/2013)
    The prequel of sorts to the Alfred Hitchcock horror classic "Psycho" drew 3 million total viewers with its 10 p.m. premiere. Though not in the league of the network's reality smash "Duck Dynasty, which drew a record 8.6 million total viewers for A&E with its ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock's Earliest Surviving Films Set For National Tour - Deadline.com (19/Mar/2013)
    The so-called 'Hitchcock 9′, made from 1925 to 1929, have been newly restored by the British Film Institute and are set to screen in several U.S. cities. The tour will kick off in San Francisco's Castro Theatre as part of the Silent Film Festival June 14-16.
  • <em>Bates Motel</em> Is The Best Worst New Show On TV - Gawker (19/Mar/2013)
    Up until then (and granted, it was just a few minutes of airtime), it seemed like A&E's new scripted series, Bates Motel, was at least trying to preserve the legacy and reality of its source material, Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror classic Psycho. But no, this prequel ...
  • Freddie Highmore's 'Bates Motel' Breaks A&E Ratings Record - Anglophenia (blog) (19/Mar/2013)
    The story is about a “sweet boy” and his mother, which is the prequel to the Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. We know how that relationship ends but we don't really know how it quite got there. That's where the TV series comes in. Highmore plays the young Norman ...
  • Early Hitchcock films to screen in Seattle - The Seattle Times (blog) (19/Mar/2013)
    Nice bit of news for Hitch completists: The British Film Institute has completed restoration work on “The Hitchcock 9,” nine rarely seen works from Alfred Hitchcock made in 1925 to 1929 — and Seattle is among the handful of cities to which these new prints will ...
  • Did Bates Motel Jump the Shark Already? - Reel Life With Jane (19/Mar/2013)
    I just hope they take a little inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock and give us more suspense, less gratuitous violence. What did you think of the premiere episode of “Bates Motel”? Jane Boursaw. About the Author: Jane Boursaw is the founder and editor-in-chief of ...
  • Rare Early Hitchcock Pics to Tour US - Variety (19/Mar/2013)
    A U.S. tour of Alfred Hitchcock's nine earliest surviving works, all silent pics newly restored by the British Film Institute, will roll out this summer. Made from 1925 to 1929, the movies include the director's first film, “The Pleasure Garden,” plus “Downhill,” “Easy ...
  • 'Hitchcock 9' to tour US - Screen International (19/Mar/2013)
    A tour of nine of Alfred Hitchcock's earliest surviving works restored by the British Film Institute (BFI) will kick off in San Francisco on Jun 14. The films will screen in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Berkley, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Boston and ...
  • 'Bates Motel' 1x01, First You Dream, Then You Die: Review - Examiner.com (19/Mar/2013)
    The new A&E mystery drama proves in its first installment to be a conflicting new series based off of Alfred Hitchcock's most tantalizing horror story and film, “Psycho”, involving the very twisted Bates mother and son relationship that gets darker and darker with ...
  • Brilliantly funny tongue-in-cheek take on a classic - This is Bristol (19/Mar/2013)
    IT'S a toss up as to who would be more offended by this unashamed spoof, John Buchan, author of the original 1915 novel, or Alfred Hitchcock, whose 1935 black-and-white film classic is the basis for playwright Patrick Barlow's tongue-in-cheek adaptation.
  • Hitchcock-inspired "Bates Motel" premiere draws record ratings - PanARMENIAN.Net (20/Mar/2013)
    The prequel of sorts to the Alfred Hitchcock horror classic "Psycho" drew 3 million total viewers with its 10 p.m. premiere. Though not in the league of the network's reality smash "Duck Dynasty, which drew a record 8.6 million total viewers for A&E with its ...
  • Rare Hitchcock films to tour US - Screen International (20/Mar/2013)
    A tour of nine of Alfred Hitchcock's earliest surviving works restored by the British Film Institute (BFI) will kick off in San Francisco on Jun 14. The films will screen in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Berkley, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Boston and ...
  • 'Bates Motel': New 'Psycho' Has Rape, Violence, Incest for 14-Year-Olds - NewsBusters (blog) (20/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's film masterpieces thrilled audiences with imagination and suspense, but if Hitchcock focused the cameras instead on graphic violence and rape, “Psycho” might resemble today's “Bates Motel” series. And throw in some implied incest just ...
  • 'Gone Girl': Flynn crafts compelling mystery despite unlikable leads - Los Altos Town Crier (20/Mar/2013)
    Reading “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn (Crown, 2012) is a lot like watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie: You feel a sense of frustration and anxiety, the desire to solve the underlying mystery and the hope that everything is resolved for the characters properly in the ...
  • Bates Motel - Entertainment Weekly (20/Mar/2013)
    Imagine a town where Norman Bates is not the most dangerous resident. Actually, imagine a town where the matricidal, motel-managing maniac from director Alfred Hitchcock's infamous 1960 proto-slasher Psycho is, maybe, one of the good guys. That is the ...
  • Bates Motel - We all go a little mad sometimes - Western Courier (subscription) (20/Mar/2013)
    To many, Alfred Hitchcock is one of (if not the) greatest film directors of all time. “Psycho” is considered a masterpiece, and to attempt and recapture the glory of Norman and his mommy dearest is a nearly suicidal attempt for the entertainment industry.
  • The "Hitchcock Nine" Making Their Way To The US This Summer - CriterionCast.com (blog) (20/Mar/2013)
    For a while now, we here in the US have anxiously awaited to hear what the fate, domestically, would befall “The Hitchcock Nine.” Nine of ten films Alfred Hitchcock made from 1925-29, these films were recently restored by the British Film Institute, and include ...
  • 'Bates Motel' Scares Up Record-Breaking Ratings - Screen Rant (20/Mar/2013)
    The series has the unenviable task of delivering the suspenseful tale of Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) – the titular character of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho - and his inevitable descent into madness. But in a world where everyone knows the show's ...
  • “Bates Motel” brings Hitchcock thriller back to life - The Independent Florida Alligator (20/Mar/2013)
    “Bates Motel” is the modernized prequel to the greatest thriller of all time: Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho.” The new show follows the tragic lives of Norman Bates and his emotionally abusive mother before he goes psycho, kills her and mummifies her body.
  • Grounding 'Vertigo' - Daily Californian (21/Mar/2013)
    British-born director Alfred Hitchcock was no stranger to California's golden coast: His American debut “Rebecca” included footage shot in Monterey, the 1943 sleeper hit “Shadow of a Doubt” was filmed in Santa Rosa and the famous avian thriller “The Birds” ...
  • A&E debuts 'Psycho' inspired series - Longview News-Journal (21/Mar/2013)
    But since this new drama, which started Monday on A&E, is, after all, a prequel of sorts to the movie “Psycho,” homage had to be paid to Alfred Hitchcock upfront. The creators went with that director's sly sense of humor. The first shot shows a scene from “His ...
  • The Test of Time: Psycho (1960) - JoBlo.com (21/Mar/2013)
    Even the great works of Alfred Hitchcock aren't immune. After Hitch was six feet under, three sequels of his greatest work, Psycho, ran the title into the ground until Gus Van Sant remade it in '98 to show it “respect.” And thanks to TV, we're now able to mine ...
  • 'Bates Motel' debut is both eerie and successful - Setonian (21/Mar/2013)
    Norman Bates is a name that has made the collective American psyche cringe since the early 1960s when Robert Bloch's novel Psycho debuted and the Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name came out, portraying the fictional Bates as a deranged killer ...
  • There is something creepy, yet appealing about 'Stokers' - Your Houston News (21/Mar/2013)
    It may not be an especially original story, borrowing heavily from numerous films, it's especially reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's “Shadow of a Doubt,” but because of “Stokers” style and the fine acting this odd and compelling film is creepy and disturbing in its ...
  • Bates Motel: Get Your Dose of Rape, Incest, Stabbing All in One Show - CollegeNews (21/Mar/2013)
    Bates Motel is a television prequel to the genre setting film, “Psycho,” the 1960 American horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and “promises to give television viewers an intimate portrayal of how Norman Bates' psyche unravels through his teenage years,” ...
  • 'Bates Motel' provides viewers with vintage chill - Northwest Missourian (21/Mar/2013)
    The series premiere of “Bates Motel” gives viewers an idea of the traumatizing events that turned Norman Bates into the chilling character in Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho.” A&E's newest show is a prequel to Hitchcock's black and white thriller from 1960. It seems ...
  • 'Bates Motel': What are the reviews saying? - Christian Science Monitor (blog) (21/Mar/2013)
    "Bates Motel," which premiered on A&E on March 18, is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's cinema classic "Psycho" and set in modern times. The show focuses on the relationship between Norman Bates and his living mother, Norma. Norman is played by Freddie ...
  • What A Thrill! Tobey Maguire Takes On Hitchcock For Vogue - Refinery29 (blog) (21/Mar/2013)
    And, while leafing through the April issue, our jaws nearly plummeted to our laps after laying eyes on her latest coup — a reprisal of Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window — starring Tobey Maguire and Carolyn Murphy and photographed by Peter Lindbergh ...
  • 'A Royal Affair's Nikolaj Arcel To Direct … - Deadline.com (21/Mar/2013)
    EXCLUSIVE: Dreamworks has set Nikolaj Arcel to direct Rebecca, a remake of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film. The picture, which has a script draft by Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight, is being produced by Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric ...
  • Baylor's '39 Steps' clever theatrical fun - Waco Tribune-Herald (blog) (21/Mar/2013)
    Spy story cliches and director Alfred Hitchcock provide some of the laughs in Baylor Theatre's “The 39 Steps,” but it's the theatrical magic of acting and imagination that makes the comic production a stage treat. Actors who change characters at the swap of a ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rebecca' is Being Remade - ScreenCrush (21/Mar/2013)
    The legendary master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, has — for the most part — survived the trend of remakes. Sure, there are people like Dario Argento and Brian De Palma who owe a good chunk of their know-how to the man, but with some notable ...
  • Review: 'Stoker' - Tulsa World (21/Mar/2013)
    The psychological thriller has always been one of my favorite genres, with movies ranging from "Inception" to "The Silence of the Lambs" to the majority of Alfred Hitchcock's resume of pictures. When done well, these films can surprise and even shock.
  • Must Watch: Bates Motel - Bangstyle (22/Mar/2013)
    Of course, she is long past dead when we finally meet her in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, where she provides the most epic final climax–seriously, even if every film parody in the world has ruined the fantastic twist to this flick, you still need to check it out.
  • Nikolaj Arcel to remake Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca - Flickering Myth (blog) (22/Mar/2013)
    Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel, screenwriter of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and director of the Oscar-nominated A Royal Affair, has reportedly been tapped by Dreamworks to helm the upcoming remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 psychological thriller ...
  • 10 Shameless Alfred Hitchcock Rip-Offs - WhatCulture! (22/Mar/2013)
    It has been said countless times before, but you are unlikely to find a director with as impressive a back-catalogue as Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Over thirty years on from the iconic filmmaker's death in 1980 and he and his features are still the subject of unabashed ...
  • California screaming: 'The Birds', 50 years on - The Independent (22/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock leant towards mystery, towards the deliciousness of darkness. It seems paradoxical, then, to be driving into Hitchcock terrain just north of San Francisco beneath blue skies, along a coast road famed for its beauty, with the window rolled down ...
  • Hitchcock Marathon - KPBS (22/Mar/2013)
    Few directors in Hollywood have turned their name into a brand the way Alfred Hitchcock did. The Hitch label became synonymous with stylish suspense and clever thrillers that made you scoot to the edge of your seat or reel back in terror. His jowly profile ...
  • Review: 'Stoker' - MENAFN.COM (22/Mar/2013)
    ... World - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --The psychological thriller has always been one of my favorite genres, with movies ranging from "Inception" to "The Silence of the Lambs" to the majority of Alfred Hitchcock's resume of pictures.
  • GTA SouthernStage weds Hitchcock and hilarity in 'The 39 Steps' - Access North Georgia (22/Mar/2013)
    Josh Carpenter and Elizabeth Berkes are among the actors scheduled to appear in GTA SouthernStage's production of Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" beginning April 5 at the Buford Community Center. GAINESVILLE - Richard Hannay is expecting a ...
  • Rebecca 2.0: What's behind Hollywood's remake mania? - WordandFilm.com (22/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's “Rebecca” (based on the Daphne Du Maurier novel), is the latest treasured heirloom to be pulled from Hollywood's vault and polished up for contemporary audiences. Though the 1940 Best Picture winner isn't always mentioned as essential ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock 'Rebecca' Remake Lands 'Dragon Tattoo' Director - The Inquisitr (22/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's stock is rising again, over 30 years after his death. A remake of his 1940 Oscar-winning masterpiece Rebecca is set for a remake, and just landed a pretty decent director to help it along on its journey to the 21st Century. Hitchcock had a busy ...
  • Where 'Bates Motel' is headed is anyone's guess - Cape Breton Post (22/Mar/2013)
    It's sort of a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho,” but is set in the present day, whereas the movie came out in 1960 and featured a grown-up Norman Bates. In “Bates Motel,” Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) is a 17-year-old high school student who finds ...
  • 'Rebecca' caps Hitchcock month - Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald (subscription) (22/Mar/2013)
    The month wraps up March 29 with "Rebecca," a 130-minute film from 1940. The only Alfred Hitchcock film to win an Oscar for Best Picture, this mystery stars Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter, a widower whose hapless second wife (Joan Fontaine) moves ...
  • 5 Reasons A&E's Bates Motel is Worth Checking Out - WhatCulture! (23/Mar/2013)
    While the former was a cheaply done attempt to cash in on the Psycho phenomenon, the latter takes the material we're familiar with from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho and reinvents the backstory of Norman Bates in the same way Smallville did for ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock Was A Brilliant Ad Writer, Too - BuzzFeed (23/Mar/2013)
    viva85 Alfred Hitchcock Was A Brilliant Ad W... and thinks it's LOL a few minutes ago ×; MelFloresc Alfred Hitchcock Was A Brilliant Ad W... about a half hour ago ×; Andrea H. Alfred Hitchcock Was A Brilliant Ad W... about a half hour ago ×; mzzt thinks Alfred ...
  • Photos and spoilers of 'Bates Motel' episode 'Nice Town You Picked, Norma' - Examiner.com (23/Mar/2013)
    It is the prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror film "Psycho". The series tells the story of the boy, Norman Bates (in his teenage years) the relationship with his mother Norma Bates, and how she helped the boy become a serial killer. Episode one aired on ...
  • Origin stories on TV go deep into familiar terrain - Boston Globe (23/Mar/2013)
    Cuse is now an executive producer of A&E's “Bates Motel,” which is giving us the origin story of Norman Bates, the killer at the center of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller, “Psycho.” Norman's sad fate, the conclusion of his journey of murder and broken ...
  • 6 Great Hitchcockian Films Not Directed By Alfred Hitchcock - WhatCulture! (24/Mar/2013)
    One cannot deny that no matter the filmmaker, Hitchcock's influence lives on and is as pivotal to film directors today as it was back in the day – even for those who do not specialize with thrillers. As you can probably notice by now, Alfred Hitchcock is one of ...
  • SV Arts Commission piecing together details for fall Hitchcock Festival - San Jose Mercury News (24/Mar/2013)
    The details are still being hashed out, but the city's Arts Commission plans to celebrate the life and works of Scotts Valley's most famous resident, Alfred Hitchcock, later this year. The Oscar-winning director and his wife, Alma, once owned a 200-acre ranch ...
  • SV Arts Commission piecing together details for fall Hitchcock Festival - Santa Cruz Sentinel (24/Mar/2013)
    The details are still being hashed out, but the city's Arts Commission plans to celebrate the life and works of Scotts Valley's most famous resident, Alfred Hitchcock, later this year. The Oscar-winning director and his wife, Alma, once owned a 200-acre ranch ...
  • SV Arts Commission piecing together details for fall Hitchcock Festival - Contra Costa Times (24/Mar/2013)
    The details are still being hashed out, but the city's Arts Commission plans to celebrate the life and works of Scotts Valley's most famous resident, Alfred Hitchcock, later this year. The Oscar-winning director and his wife, Alma, once owned a 200-acre ranch ...
  • A&E takes a well aimed stab at 'Psycho' origins with 'Bates Motel' - The Michigan Daily (24/Mar/2013)
    Published March 25, 2013. After Alfred Hitchcock ruined showers for everyone with one iconic scene, Norman Bates became a household name. Now A&E fancifully imagines the beginning of the “Psycho” legacy in the new prequel series, “Bates Motel.” ...
  • Early Hitchcock Films to Tour the US - Anglophenia (25/Mar/2013)
    Audience members wear Alfred Hitchcock masks at the premiere of the BFI restoration of 'Blackmail' at the British Museum last year. (Can Nguyen, Rex Features/AP Images). Alfred Hitchcock fans here in the U.S. have a treat ahead of them this summer: the ...
  • "Rebecca" Reboot: Time to Dream of Manderley Again - ARTINFO (25/Mar/2013)
    The movie is not intended to be a retread of the 1940 “Rebecca,” Alfred Hitchcock's Gothic melodrama (and his first American picture) that won David O. Selznick the Best Picture Oscar. As reported on Cineuropa, Arcel told the Danish film magazine Ekko that ...
  • 'Bates Motel' puts a new twist on Hitchcock's 'Psycho' - CU Columbia Spectator (25/Mar/2013)
    But the new series, a prequel of sorts to Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho, manages to hook the viewer despite its strangeness. The pilot episode opens with the young Norman Bates finding his dead father's body on the floor of his garage, which serves as the ...
  • A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca on the horizon - Hindustan Times (26/Mar/2013)
    Deadline.com has revealed that the Dane Nikolaj Arcel will direct a new version of the first American movie by master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock for Dreamworks studios. Nikolaj Arcel, who caught audiences' attention with his historical drama A Royal Affair ...
  • Movie Review - Hitchcock exceptional acting, lousy flick - Sowetan (26/Mar/2013)
    Hitchcock centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock played by the thespian Anthony Hopkins and his wife Alma Reville (played by Hele Mirren during the making of a controversial horror movie Psycho based on the crimes of the serial killer ...
  • Early Hitchcock Films Set for National Tour - About - News & Issues (26/Mar/2013)
    Starting in mid-June, fans of Alfred Hitchcock will be able to see nine of the Master's early films made from 1925-29 in a national tour that will cover several major U.S. cities over the summer. Newly restored by the British Film Institute, the group of films include ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock Stars in New Girard-Perregaux Ad Campaign - ARTINFO (26/Mar/2013)
    The first image from the campaign has been released and it stars Alfred Hitchcock, the illustrious director known for classics like “To Catch a Thief” and “The Birds.” The black and white photo shows Hitchcock shooting his timeless masterpiece “Psycho,” which ...
  • "Hitchcock" Does The Old Man Justice Review - JustPressPlay (26/Mar/2013)
    No one has ever uttered those two words with more class than the late great Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Back in the early days of film, he was the “Master of Suspense”, having churned out many cinematic classics. His legacy is one that will be remembered forever ...
  • What's on at the Haydn cinema this week (28 March – 4 April) - Austrian Times (27/Mar/2013)
    Hitchcock: A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of “Psycho” in 1959. Oz the Great and Powerful: A small-time magician arrives in an enchanted land and is forced to decide if he will be a good man ...
  • California screaming, Hitchcock style - Independent Online (27/Mar/2013)
    San Francisco - Alfred Hitchcock leant towards mystery, towards the deliciousness of darkness. It seems paradoxical, then, to be driving into Hitchcock terrain just north of San Francisco beneath blue skies, along a coast road famed for its beauty, with the ...
  • Happy Birthday: Hitchcock's The Birds Turns 50 - Huffington Post (27/Mar/2013)
    When The Birds had it's world premiere at the RKO Palace in New York on March 28, 1963, it proved to be Alfred Hitchcock's most modern, avant-garde and frightening film. "I suppose that The Birds is the most prodigious job ever done," said Hitchcock.
  • 'The Birds' Turns 50: Alfred Hitchcock Drew Fear From Real-Life Flock - Yahoo! Movies (blog) (27/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds,' starring Tippi Hedren, is based on a real event (Photo: Everett Collection)Three a.m., Aug. 18, 1961. Monterey Bay, California. Residents of the picturesque area are jarred from their slumber as thousands of sea birds begin ...
  • The 39 Steps (Tour - York) - WhatsOnStage.com (28/Mar/2013)
    The award-winning comedy is not a spoof of Buchan's novel, but an affectionately irreverent homage to Alfred Hitchcock's film. Patrick Barlow's adaptation of the story, amazingly, is currently playing in 26 countries and this week York is the venue for its latest ...
  • The county that knew too much... - Pacific Sun (28/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock may have been "the master of suspense," but even he wouldn't have been able to handle the excitement of Best of Marin. As Hollywood rediscovers the filmmaking legend on the big screen this year, the Pacific Sun is paying homage to the ...
  • A Hitch in Time - Pacific Sun (28/Mar/2013)
    Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born Aug. 13, 1899 in Leytonstone, an East London suburb. His father, a greengrocer, once sent a mildly recalcitrant 5-year-old Alfred to the local police station with a note to jail the child for five minutes. Hitchcock's subsequent ...
  • Peter Bogdanovich and Alfred Hitchcock: The American Connection - New Yorker (blog) (28/Mar/2013)
    Before there was François Truffaut, with his gargantuan series of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock that became a book, there was Peter Bogdanovich, who, in his early twenties—fifty years ago—was, in effect, New York's première activist on behalf of the classic ...
  • DAVID ALLEN: Alfred Hitchcock film choices won't make you psycho - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (28/Mar/2013)
    We'll be screening four of Alfred Hitchcock's best, one each Thursday. The schedule: "Saboteur," April 4; "Notorious," April 11; "North by Northwest," April 18; "Psycho," April 25. Screenings begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. at the Ovitt Colonies Settlement Library ...
  • 'The Birds' turns 50! - TheCelebrityCafe.com (28/Mar/2013)
    This year marks the golden anniversary of one of Alfred Hitchcock's most well known films The Birds. Having scored big time with his previous film Psycho (1960), Hitchcock's follow up piece had a lot to live up to. Fortunately, audiences' expectations were met, ...
  • Hitchcock and His 'Girls' - EDGEOnTheNet (28/Mar/2013)
    The tone, mood, and overall style of Hitchcock honors Hitch as viewers knew him from his movie trailers and television anthology series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" -- a master not just of suspense, but also of macabre humor, with a slightly stiff air about him ...
  • 3D or Not 3D: “Dial M” for Depth - ARTINFO (blog) (29/Mar/2013)
    The comically brief first 3-D craze of the early '50s was over by the time Alfred Hitchcock finished his stereoscopic opus “Dial M For Murder” and the movie was released flat in 1954. Not until 1980 was “Dial M” exhibited as intended, first shown by the ...
  • Remembering Alfred Hitchcock at the Universal Orlando Resort - MiceChat (30/Mar/2013)
    During a 1987 press conference announcing the opening of Universal Studios Florida, a video of Back to the Future's Doc Brown, who was time traveling to the opening of the park, showed Alfred Hitchcock speaking about his movies while standing in the ...
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