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MAKER Alfred Hitchcock and his screenwriter wife Alma Reville risk everything to selffinance "a nice, clean, nasty little piece of work" called Psycho.

If you can't wait for the release of "World War Z" this weekend, you can get your horror fix today, June 18, with the DVD release of the Gothic thriller " Stoker ".

Inside East Hollywood's Sacred Fools Theatre on a recent Sunday afternoon, actor Donal Thoms-Capello is capering through a bizarre step of percussive, deliberate foot stomps, which alternate with clanking sound effects.

This minimalist line drawing of Alfred Hitchcock's profile was done in 1959 and used as the logo for the director's TV series, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."

Where: Hope Summer Repertory Theatre at Knickerbocker Theatre, 86 E. Eighth St., Holland.

WHO: Alfred Hitchcock directed this, and appears in one of the first of his famous cameos, "strolling past a tennis court" according to Patrick McGilligan .

Yet for all his success and public adulation, he never won an Academy Award as Best Director and had to put his personal fortune on the line to commit arguably his crowning achievement to celluloid.

On April 16, 1960, the dawn of modern-day horror films was ushered in with the New York premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's now-iconic "Psycho."

Jim Robinson/contributor Striking a pose in front of the house that was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's landmark thriller, The Birds, the 2014 Cadenza is Kia's first foray into the full-size near luxury sedan market.

WHO: Alfred Hitchcock directed this. WHAT: Though Hitchcock disparaged its dialogue and the naA vetA© of one of its most memorable sequences, and though some modern critics find fault with its thematic misogyny, Downhill is a feast for admirers of the director's visual flourishes, second perhaps only to Blackmail among the silent Hitchcocks I've ... (more)

"The 39 Steps" began as a novel written almost 100 years ago by John Buchan. Alfred Hitchcock made it into a film in 1935 - one of his earliest, and one of his best - and eight years ago it became a wild-and-crazy stage play.

YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA 2 ?12A?. VERDICT: and his screenwriter wife Alma Reville risk everything to self- finance "a nice, clean, nasty little piece of work" called Psycho.

IN Hitchcock Sir Anthony Hopkins takes on Sir Alfred Hitchcock. With a blend of expertly applied prosthetics - from the Oscar-winning make-up artist Howard Berger - and his own well-honed acting skills, Hopkins transforms into the iconic director of such classics as North By Northwest and Psycho .

Before Alfred Hitchcock moved to Northern California and became the biggest name in American film, he began his career in England in the 1920s, shooting a series of silent movies that have since been mired in obscurity.

Alfred Hitchcock 'Directs' a LIFE Picture Story, 1942. "...perhaps no filmmaker provided richer fodder for the Allies during the war itself than Alfred Hitchcock.

Rich with Taiwanese history and driven by a loveable, tenacious hero based on Julie's own father, The Third Son is the first American novel written from the Taiwanese perspective.

A character who unknowingly carries a bomb around as if it were an ordinary package is bound to work up great suspense in the audience.

It took a lot of people to create the present version of "The 39 Steps", now at Haddonfield Plays and Players.

The New Zealand International Film Festival has announced more additions to its 2013 programme including screenings of a 3D digital version of an Alfred Hitchcock film and its list of international guests coming to the Auckland and Wellington events next month.

Alfred Hitchcock fanatics, get ready for a treat. A fully restored collection of the very first films by the Master of Suspense is coming to the Bay Area.