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Information
- Year
- 1977
- Runtime
- 94 min.
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Genre
- Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.7
- Votes *
- 12,292
- Checks
- 2,056
- Favs
- 94
- Dislikes
- 30
- Favs/checks
- 4.6% (1:22)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
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aussieflickfan
The psychological profession's ethics never looked the same to me after I saw this film. I love it. It does help if you're a Hitchcock fan, as you will pick up on a few references. 13 years ago -
Siskoid
An under-appreciated Mel Brooks flick, High Anxiety is a fine spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's oeuvre with a few key parody moments - the shot-for-shot shower scene from Psycho, the monkey bars from The Birds - but generally aims to tell its own story, with its own characters, in a tale that's half Spellbound and half Vertigo. Otherwise, he's quoting Hitchcock's shots, but you're not always sure you'd be able to name which movie they're all from. In other words, a similar formula to Young Frankenstein, but even more distanced from the original work (not to mention the gags that spoof other films). It means it looks pretty cool, and it's a lot of fun besides. Harvey Korman is particularly in good form - I don't think he's given enough credit for his physical humor - and who isn't happy to see Madeline Kahn? If you want to get drunk watching this, however, I suggest you take a shot every time someone asks someone else who they are. Is this a Hitchcock trope that I never picked up on? I don't think it is. 1 year 3 months ago
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This movie ranks #138 in Geoff King's Film Comedy
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This movie ranks #424 in Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life
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