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Alfred Hitchcock became one of Hollywood's most successful directors through the 1940s.

Hitchcock followed his Oscar-winning big break into Hollywood Rebecca in 1940 with a string of successes, including suspicion, saboteur, shadow of a doubt, spellbound, and notorious.

Towards the end of the 40s and into the 50s, Hitch began experimenting, making bolder, riskier choices both technically and thematically.

In 1948, Hitchcock made one of his most subversive films to date.

Rope, his first film in color, an adaptation of a stage play set entirely in a New York apartment and seemingly shot in a single take.

A story of two men murdering their former classmate, hiding the body in a chest and inviting the victim's family and friends to unknowingly dine around the corpse.

A few years later, Hitchcock returned to this claustrophobic setting of a New York apartment block with one of his most successful films.

Rear Window was about a man witnessing a murder in his next door neighbor's apartment and remains to this day one of the most beloved movies ever made.

Both Rope and Rear Window solidified Hitchcock's reputation as not only the master of suspense, but also the man who established the home as one of the most dangerous and potentially terrifying locations.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of home invasion and we discuss two terrifying Hitchcock classics, Rear Window and Rope.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Muncer and as ever I am your host. If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome.

In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre one subgenre at a time.

We are currently in the middle of our ninth series exploring the evolution of home invasion and this is part six.

In this week's episode, as that intro suggested, it's a Hitchcock double bill.

We're going to be talking about two apartment based movies that he made, Rope from 1948 and Rear Window from 1954.

What an incredible double bill. If you guys haven't seen these films, please check them out before you listen to our discussion.

So later on in this episode, I will be joined by filmmaker and friend of the pod Jen Handolf to discuss both these films in depth.

But first of all, a very special little interview for you with one of my personal heroes.

If you grew up around the same time as me as a cinephile in the UK, you're bound to have been a fan of Mark Cousins.

Because as well as being a great filmmaker and storyteller from as early as the late 80s,

Mark Cousins went on to present some really beloved film programs on the television such as Movie Drome in the late 90s and early 2000s,

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