Maybe not this one. But his movies like Spellbound or Birds did remind me of Allan Poe, the famous Gothic-style writer. Or may I say Hitchcock movies are of Gothic style too?
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As in, Edgar Allan Poe? Interesting observation - maybe the 'Birds' and 'The Black Cat'. Anything in particular?
shareHitchcock himself fessed up to reading a lot of Poe in his youth, and I think that Hitchcock was a worthy successor TO Poe in his style.
Much more so than the hordes of horror mongers who lay claim to Poe influences.
"The Tell Tale Heart" seems most Hitchcockian to me, as does "The Purloined Letter" in which the MacGuffin(of sorts) is hiding in plain sight.
There is also in Poe a mix of the horrific and the melancholy-romantic, very much Hitchcock's line of play in "Vertigo" and other pictures.
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This film, Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Marnie do contain Edgar Allan Poe references.
In Marnie, Hitchcock connected Marnie to Edgar Allan Poe and his characters. Like Poe's characters, Marnie "Edgar" is subject to Psychological terror. The film takes place in New York (Strutt's office), Virginia(Garrod's Stables) and Philadelphia (Rutland Publishing and Wickwind). These are the three places that "Edgar" Allan Poe lived throughout the better part of his life.
The film's climactic scene takes place at Marnie's mother's home in Baltimore, the city where Poe died under mysterious circumstances in 1849. Tippi Hedren played Marnie. Both Tippi Hedren and Edgar Allan Poe were born on January 19.
In this film, we see the spinning camera around Fonda in the prison. This can be connected to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "A Descent into Maelstrom."
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Good for you, sonysunu. I knew you'd know that good stuff.
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The Birds reminds me of Daphne du Maurier, since it was her short story ;-) In general, though, no, Hitchcock doesn't really make me think of Poe.
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