THE LODGER

Review: A landlady and her husband take in a new lodger and they are both overjoyed. Although, his mysterious and suspicious behaviour soon has them wondering if he is the madman killing women in London. Their daughter is less concerned but it is her police detective boyfriend who seeks to uncover the lodger’s true identity.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Malcolm Keen, Reginald Gardiner, Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville
Year: 1927
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery and Thriller
Conclusion: 5/5
The original title: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. This is Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller. Upon its release in 1927 it was a huge critical success. There is a scene where The lodger’s room is filled with paintings of nude blonde women – supposedly resembling the killer’s victims. These paintings were done by artist and designer Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898). Film critic Mark Kermode quoted about this film “The film offers early evidence of the director’s longstanding association between sex and murder, ecstasy and death, introducing fetishistic tropes that would become defining moves in Vertigo and Psycho.”