To anyone thinking of buying the new region 2 release of Psycho, my advice would be… …don’t bother! To be honest, I’m getting utterly tired of the way Universal UK is treating Hitchcock fans and this release is just another shining example of how little the UK branch of the company cares. First of all, the film transfer is exactly the same one they used for the original 1999 release in the UK – the… (read more)

It hardly seems two minutes since the centenary in 1999, but it was 106 years ago today that Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, London. As all good Hitchcock fans will know, that means tomorrow marks the 106th anniversary of the birth of Hitchcock’s future wife, Alma Lucy Reville, in Nottingham. For those of you in the UK, don’t forget that BBC2 and BBC4 are broadcasting three Hitchcock films today (“Dial M”, “Mr &… (read more)

Whilst we wait to find out if the “AFI Salute” contained in the upcoming “Masterpiece Collection is full length or just edited highlights, I’ve unearthed a bit more info about the “Masters of Cinema” extra contained on the 15th DVD. I think most of us had assumed it would be a new documentary, but it looks like it’s actually a couple of archive interviews with Hitchcock from 1972 that were broadcast as part of CBS’s… (read more)

There’s still no formal announcment from Universal regarding their UK version of the Masterpiece Collection, however… Amazon.co.uk are now listing the box set for release on October 17th, with a RRP of £99.99. Assuming we’re getting exactly the same content as the US release, then that works out at £7.14 per film – not bad, eh? Well, at today’s exchange rate, the RRP of the US box set is only £67.50 – that’s just £4.82… (read more)

I’ve added a couple more bootlegs to the site: Elstree Calling (1930) Mary (1930) I noticed that this version of “Mary” is being sold on eBay for ?10. My advice is “don’t bother” – if you want a copy of the film before it gets released on DVD, then you can download it for free from the eDonkey peer-to-peer network.

Just looking at the weblogs for May 2005 and it was the busiest month yet for the site – for the first time ever, the site used over 3GB of bandwidth. Not surprisingly, the majority of the bandwidth was taken up with images (2.42GB of JPGs, GIFs & PNGs). There’s also been an increase in the number of people trying to link directly to images hosted on the site (known as leeching), but the web… (read more)

I’ve added some code to the site to allow message board users to create their own list of Hitchcock DVDs, along with a wish list. For example, here’s my list.