Two killers, one corpse in a chest, and a dinner party. Hitchcock's twisted game of manners.
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
Direction
Hitchcock's 'continuous shot' illusion—technically cheating, visually seamless.
Acting
Brandon's smug superiority versus Cadell's dawning horror.
Writing
Nietzschean dinner conversation over a literal dead body.
Director
Stephen Harrison
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hitchcock shot in ten-minute takes due to camera magazine limits, hiding cuts behind furniture and backs.
Loosely based on Leopold and Loeb, the real 1924 'thrill killers' whose trial obsessed America—Hitchcock makes them gay-coded and even more insufferable.
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