Posts filed under Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Directs: The TV Collection

If you want to complete your Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour collections, then you need to look to Australia, where Madman Entertainment have released complete collections of both series. If you just want to own the episodes that were actually directed by Hitchcock, then you might want to treat yourself to their 3-disc “Alfred Hitchcock Directs” collection. As an extra bonus, it includes the Startime “Incident at a Corner” episode. It’s not… (read more)

Hitchcock’s Brain Control

This interesting article appeared on the UPI.com web site yesterday… Health News: Some movies affect more brain activity Using advanced functional imaging, U.S. and German neuroscientists found some motion pictures can exert considerable control over brain activity. Study authors New York University neuroscientists Uri Hasson, Barbara Knappmeyer, Nava Rubin and David Heeger and doctoral candidate Ohad Landesman as well as Ignacio Vallines of the University of Munich used fMRI and inter-subject correlation, or ISC analysis,… (read more)

Carry on saving those pennies!

October just keeps getting better for Hitchcock fans! Universal have just officially announced the region 1 “Hitchcock Presents: Season One” box set. (image courtesy of DVD Times) Hopefully we’ll have an announcement soon from Universal about the possible UK release of the set on October 31st. So, that now means the following are potentially going to be released in October 2005: Hitchcock: The Complete Box Set (UK) Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season One (USA) Alfred Hitchcock:… (read more)

Start saving your pennies!

Many thanks to Mr_Lowery for spotting the following DVDs that have just appeared on play.com: Hitchcock: The Complete Box Set (03/10/2005) Psycho: 45th Anniversary Edition (17/10/2005) Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1 (6 Discs) (31/10/2005) If play.com have got the details correct, then October is going to be a very expensive month (R1 “Lifeboat” is due on 18th, and the remastered R1 “Masterpiece” collection is out on the 4th). Paolo emailed me to say that Sony… (read more)