THE BIRDS

GENRE:  Horror/ Thriller
MADE:  1963
CAST:  Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette
DIRECTOR:  Alfred Hitchcock
WRITER:  Daphne Du Maurier, Evan Hunter

PLOT:  In this Hitchcock classic Melanie Daniels is a young woman who follows her love interest to a small town where the birds begin to attack people.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Vertigo, Pyscho, Dial 'M' For Murder

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VERTIGO

GENRE:  Crime/ Mystery/ Thriller/ Romance
MADE:  1958
CAST:  James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
DIRECTOR:  Alfred Hitchcock
WRITER:  Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Maxwell Anderson

PLOT:  A detective suffering from acrophobia becomes involved in the investigation of a friend's wife, in the midst becoming obsessed  with her.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Rear Window, To Catch A Thief, Dial "M" For Murder, Wait Until Dark

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TO CATCH A THIEF

GENRE:  Crime/ Mystery/ Romance
MADE:  1955
CAST:  Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
DIRECTOR:  Alfred Hitchcock
WRITER:  John Michael Hayes, David Dodge, Alec Coppel

PLOT:  When John Robie, a reformed jewel thief is suspected of being the jewel thief also known as the Cat, he must find the real thief in order to clear his name.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Rear Window, Vertigo, Dial "M" For Murder

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DIAL "M" FOR MURDER

GENRE:  Crime/ Thriller
MADE:  1954
CAST:  Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings
DIRECTOR:  Alfred Hitchcock
WRITER:   Frederick Knott

PLOT:  A man plots to kill his wife by hiring someone to perform a fake robbery, but the plans go awry and his wife survives.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Rear Window, To Catch A Thief, Wait Until Dark

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PSYCHO

GENRE:  Horror/ Mystery/ Thriller
MADE:  1960
CAST:  Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
DIRECTOR:  Alfred Hitchcock
WRITER:  Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch

PLOT:  A young woman runs away with stolen cash and check into the rather empty Bates Motel run by the owner who has been under his mother's command for a little too long.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Rosemary's Baby, What ever Happened To Baby Jane?, The Shining

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REAR WINDOW

GENRE:  Crime/ Mystery/ Romance
MADE:  1954
CAST:  James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
DIRECTOR:  Alfred Hitchcock
WRITER:  John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich

PLOT:  When a photographer breaks his leg and becomes wheelchair bound n his apartment  with doctor's orders one summer in NYC , he begins to look out his apartment window and watch his neighbors for entertainment.  When he begins to believe that there's been a murder afoot no one seems to believe him, is this the onset of cabin-fever or has there really been a murder?

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Vertigo, To Catch A Thief, Dial "M" For Murder

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