Sublime

‘Always make the audience suffer as much as possible’. Hitchcock was an information sadist.

He was like a man who had leaned around a corner and had seen an unexpected monster lying in wait, crouching among the dried bones of its old kills.

Hitchcockian protagonist,

"Alan, in a locked room at the top of this house, a room to which nobody but myself has access, a dead man is seated at a table. He has been dead ten hours now.