Word: hitchcockian
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...plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What if abnormal Norman were to be questioned by the shrink who has decoded his warped family life? And what if Norman were to escape from custody...
Misery In this Stephen King thriller, James Caan is a romance writer rescued from an accident and held captive while he recuperates. Kathy Bates is his nurse and "biggest fan" -- alternately giddy and menacing in a great turn. Rob Reiner proves himself a director of Hitchcockian wit and wiliness...
Jackoby and Strick take further license with Arachnophobia's classic formula when they comically juxtapose Daniels' Hitchcockian character against the supporting roles, each of which represent the far extremes of man's relationships to spiders...
...sulky siren that Pfeiffer made her first mark, as a punkette in Grease 2, as Al Pacino's coked-out wife in Scarface, as a Hitchcockian heroine with a Los Angeles '80s twist in Into the Night. Then, switching on the Cinderella smile, she became a princess in the medieval adventure Ladyhawke and the sweetest witch in Eastwick. She has played movie stars in Sweet Liberty and PBS's Natica Jackson, two fables about creatures of illusion manipulating the reality of voyeurs who dare mistake the actress for the role...
What is not forgivable is the end to which Michele is maneuvered. It is a glaring, blaring atonality, the only conceivable purpose of which is to help , Polanski prove that he is not a Hitchcockian after all -- more serious, don't you know. But why spoil a perfectly enjoyable, often quite imaginative imitation by insisting on that dubious point...