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Attention movie buffs - The Ultimate Alfred Hitchcock Collection is nearly half off on Amazon's Black Friday sale
From Psycho to The Birds, the Master of Suspense helped create so many modern filmmaking techniques that you've probably watched his influence without even knowing it.
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Decades after his final film graced cinemas, Alfred Hitchcock continues to cast a long shadow. His influence is so great that many of his techniques are baked into the art of filmmaking at this point. Even if you’ve never seen a single movie by the filmmaker, you’ve seen things like the dolly zoom in films like E.T. and Jaws. Meanwhile, his use of the soundtrack in Psycho became a blueprint for horror movies decades later. Not to mention the number of times you’ve seen the finale of North by Northwest parodied or referenced in popular culture over the years.
If you’re unfamiliar with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, then Amazon’s Black Friday sale is the perfect time to fix that. Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection is currently available for a beautiful 45% off. That gives you 15 of the director’s most celebrated films along with ten episodes of his television shows for just $54.99 on Blu-Ray. This set is down from $99.98, making it practically a steal.
Films included in this collection are:
- Psycho
- The Birds
- Vertigo
- Rear Window
- North by Northwest
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Marnie
- Saboteur
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Rope
- The Trouble with Harry
- Torn Curtain
- Topaz
- Frenzy
- Family Plot
While Psycho is probably Hitchcock’s best-known work, I would personally recommend North by Northwest. The proto-action film has all the exotic locales and the huge set pieces that we associate with James Bond films but features one of the most perfect shots in cinematic history in the form of the crop duster scene.
The Master of Suspense’s films laid the groundwork for modern cinema, so picking up the Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection as part of your Black Friday shopping is a no-brainer for any aspiring movie buff.
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