When characters stare at the camera in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the look is almost always associated with the threat of death (through the eyes of a victim, a murderer, a witness). This momentary suspension between death and life is partly what makes Hitchcock the indisputable master of suspense.
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The Class of ‘9271%
Looking for Richard68%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Black Sheep72%
Public Speaking70%
The Secret65%
My Mom Jayne80%
Being James Bond77%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Elstree 197661%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Caicedo (with Pole)60%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Audrey71%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds74%
78/5271%
Hawking76%
Seduced and Abandoned62%