Alfred HitchcockBig Bird"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." (Source)That was the goal of our twisted directing genius, Alfred Hitchcock. We'd have to say he succeeded. Whether sc...

Evan HunterDid anyone ever refer to your high school as "The Blackboard Jungle"? If so, you've got Evan Hunter to thank. Hunter penned the 1954 novel of the same name, about a newbie teacher trying...

Universal PicturesUniversal Pictures knew horror. They were the home of the Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, and Frankenstein franchises, and from the 1920s through the 1950s, their bread-and...

Hitchcock, a perfectionist genius (that's a polite way of saying "control freak"), hated to shoot on location—too many uncontrollable variables like weather, traffic, and annoying local residents...

Oskar SalaHitchcock + scores = terror.The Master of Suspense was famous for his scores, many of which were written by the composer Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann had provided the score for Hitchcock's...

Alfred Hitchcock was a pop culture icon, with all of the mass-marketing potential and enthusiasm for self-promotion that the role suggests: He was famously filmed introducing each episode of the 19...