

Which isn’t what Hitch did at all, so I wonder what the “finding out” consisted of. My photo off the TV screen does not capture the full horror.įriedkin tells us that he “found out” how Hitchcock filmed Balsam’s topple down the Bates house stairs, and duplicated it by attaching the camera to his scrotum agony man. Or like somebody’s grabbed him by frankly the scrotum.

There’s also a colorized shot from Alfred Hitchcock Presents where they give Hitch a hideously crimson, ready-to-burst head, which looks set momentarily to take flight from his collar and go off to star in an Albert Lamorisse short. There’s an assortment of editors and sound designers, and they mainly earn their presence by saying interesting or amusing things. This is a passable doc - what’s frustrating is they have people of the calibre of Scorsese, Carpenter, Friedkin, but they have to make room for Eli Roth and the composer of BASIC INSTINCT 2. His use of the word “frankly” I find, frankly, hilarious. William Friedkin, speaking in PSYCHO extra feature In the Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy, comparing Martin Balsam’s death scene in PSYCHO to a shot in his own shocker. There’s a shot of, uh, well, frankly it’s a shot of a character being grabbed by the scrotum.”
