Well, I had never heard about this 1962 horror movie titled "L'orribile Segreto Del Dr. Hichcock" (aka "The Horrible Dr. Hichcock") prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2024. And given my fascination with the horror genre, of course I opted to check out the movie and see what I had been missing out on.
Writer Ernesto Gastaldi put together an adequate enough script and storyline for the movie, though it was by no means a particularly outstanding viewing experience.
Given my extremely limited exposure to the Italian cinema, much less 1960s Italian cinema, then I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress in the movie. It should be noted, however, that the acting performances throughout the course of the movie were actually fairly good.
I was unfortunate to sit through an English dubbed movie, which was disappointing, as I enjoy watching movies in their original language. And I had the subtitles on, as I was expecting the movie to be in Italian, and it turned out that the subtitles weren't fully the same as the English dubbed dialogue, so I guess the subtitles were for the Italian language and sort of got cluttered with the English dub. It made for a good laugh though.
Visually then "L'orribile Segreto Del Dr. Hichcock" was an okay movie. It definitely looked and felt like an era-specific movie, and it added a lot to the overall impression of the movie, and also to the overall enjoyment of the movie.
My rating of director Riccardo Freda's 1962 movie "L'orribile Segreto Del Dr. Hichcock" lands on a four out of ten stars.
Writer Ernesto Gastaldi put together an adequate enough script and storyline for the movie, though it was by no means a particularly outstanding viewing experience.
Given my extremely limited exposure to the Italian cinema, much less 1960s Italian cinema, then I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress in the movie. It should be noted, however, that the acting performances throughout the course of the movie were actually fairly good.
I was unfortunate to sit through an English dubbed movie, which was disappointing, as I enjoy watching movies in their original language. And I had the subtitles on, as I was expecting the movie to be in Italian, and it turned out that the subtitles weren't fully the same as the English dubbed dialogue, so I guess the subtitles were for the Italian language and sort of got cluttered with the English dub. It made for a good laugh though.
Visually then "L'orribile Segreto Del Dr. Hichcock" was an okay movie. It definitely looked and felt like an era-specific movie, and it added a lot to the overall impression of the movie, and also to the overall enjoyment of the movie.
My rating of director Riccardo Freda's 1962 movie "L'orribile Segreto Del Dr. Hichcock" lands on a four out of ten stars.