What do hot cars and burning rubber have to do with Alfred Hitchcock? That's what patron Joe B. wanted me to investigate. So I put the pedal to the metal and raced down to the video store to pick up a copy of Justin Lin's 2006 street racing flick, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. The paral...

Okay, seriously? What could any movie that’s all about hot cars, teen angst and burning rubber have to do with Alfred Hitchcock? Actually, quite a lot—enough to flesh out a thrilling finale to this two-part series.

In what ways is David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS influenced by the films of Alfred Hitchcock? Watch this introduction to a three-part series on Hitchcock and Cronenberg.

On the face of it, horrormaster David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers (1988) is a “twin film”—you know, like The Parent Trap. But I say it’s much more than that. To my eye, this film actually about doppelgängers —those uncanny, mysterious doubles that can be so vexing in literature and film. Where does...

Doppelgängers. Emotions in extremis. Intimations of a slippery (bi)sexuality. These aspects of David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers are part of a broader 20th century tradition—Surrealism. It’s at this level that Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Cronenberg is most evident, because both directors are ma...

In Dead Ringers, the twins Beverly and Ellie Mantle (played by Jeremy Irons) spend their days literally examining women in the most intimate ways possible—and then they spend their nights romancing the same women. These guys are super-gazers, objectifying women from every conceivable angle—and pr...

Steven Spielberg is a founding father of Hitchcock geekery, and his films are stuffed with all kinds of nods to the Master. In part one of this two-part series, I focus on his impact on Jurassic Park.

With Jaws, Steven Spielberg became the father of the summer blockbuster. This great film—and its director—stands on the shoulders of Alfred Hitchcock. Learn how!

In this episode of Freak the Geek, I pit E. A. Dupont's 1928 silent music hall extravaganza Moulin Rouge against the already formidable work of Alfred Hitchcock, to suss out Hitch's influence on that movie.

Your favorite Alfred Hitchcock Geek returns to deliver on his promise to prove that any Hollywood movie made in the last 50 years bears Hitchcock's imprint. In part one of a three-part mini-series, the Geek takes his shot at the cycle of five Bond films starring Daniel Craig as 007 to find the af...

In part two of our mini-series on the cycle of James Bond films starring Daniel Craig, Joel Gunz shares a few glimpses of the myriad ways in which Hitchcock's films—and one work by Henri Matisse—show up in Skyfall (2012).