Hello, my name is Justin the Cluid. I'm here today with, good evening. Oh my God, it's Hitch himself in the room.

No, folks, it's Will Sloan. Ah, the greatest prank that Hitchcock ever pulled, making me think he was

Will Sloan. And you're listening to the important cinema clown. Oh, no, it is Will Sloan.

And this week,

we are talking about, for God's sake, at long last, the king of cinema, Mr. Director, Alfred Hitchcock.

The master of suspense, if you will. Why did it take us so long to get to this topic? Because

we needed to build our knowledge to finally add to the thousands of books out there

dedicated to this great man. Every time I pick up a new issue of sight and sound and I go straight to

the book review section, the first section everyone goes to, there's always some new book like,

you know, Hitchcock and gender, uh, the making of

North by Northwest. The globalization of Hitchcock cinema. Uh, perspectives on vertigo. There's always some

new piece of scholarship or biography. Because people can't get enough of Hitchcock, the entertainer. Oh, but he was so much more than that.

So that's probably why it's taken us this long to get to him. And we will be talking about him in our own inimitable unique fashion by talking about some of his bad movies.

We should say that this topic is completely subjective to us, that we can't really add

anything to the Hitchcock scholarship in terms of getting a completely different perspective

on something.

So we can only come to it from our lives and look at these movies and go, are they bad?

We'll be parroting the received wisdom, as you would expect us to.

But we decided to pick a couple of movies that we think just by general consensus, just by

wetting our finger and putting in the air and seeing which way the winds were blowing,

seemed like ones that not a lot of people really like.

But before we get to that, Justin, what's your relationship with Alfred Hitchcock?

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