Movies like our idea 'lift' - Suspence Based.

Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock, 1960 - Gus Van Sant, 1999
Norman Bates, his mother, the Bates motel, Bernard Hermann's chilling score, the shower scene? Alfred Hitchcock's thriller is a master class in creating suspense. It horrified audiences when it was released and while Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake may seem like an exercise in pointlessness, it proves that the film still has the power to shock today.

Shadow of a Doubt
Hitchcock - 1958
Described by David Mamet as 's finest film, "Shadow of a Doubt" describes the tale of a young American woman's struggle with her murderous Uncle. Featuring a cameo from Hitchcock himself (as a Bridge-playing man 15 minutes in), the film was remade in 1958 as "Step down to terror".


The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan - 1999
Child psychologist Malcom Crowe (Bruce Willis) is attacked by an enraged ex-patient who shoots him before killing himself. Crowe later takes on the case of 9-year old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) whose loneliness and fear of ghosts resemble Crowe's attacker. Producing the inimitable "I see dead people," line, Sear tells Crowe that the ghosts he sees do not know they are dead.


Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
A photographer recuperating from a broken leg is wheelchair bound in his New York apartment. To pass the time he begins spying through a camera lens on his neighbours from the rear window of his apartment. Eventually he becomes convinced he has witnessed a murder. Featuring the memorable pairing of Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly.


Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
A classic psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock with more haunting music by Bernard Hermann. Jimmy Stewart is John ?Scottie' Ferguson, a San Francisco detective who leaves the police force and begins suffering from acrophobia after witnessing a fellow policeman fall to his death while the two are chasing a criminal across rooftops. He then becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman whom he has been hired to follow by an old friend.



A Touch of Evil
Orson Welles, 1958
"The strangest vengeance ever planned!" declared the film's publicity poster in 1958. Beginning with Orson Welles' typically ambitious three and a half minute continuous tracking shot, this classic film noir starring Charlton Heston is a dark tale of murder, kidnap and corruption in a Mexican border town.