Psycho and the Past

I wrote recently about Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds as a meditation on Sin here. Hitchcock also explored the effects of Original Sin in his classic work Psycho. Often this film is touted as the first classic modern horror. However classifying this film as a horror or thriller, does not do the film justice as it is a penetrating study [...]

Notes from Sunday’s Sermon – Sin and the Birds

On Sunday at church I preached on the concept of Sin, using Alfred Hitchcocks’ The Birds as a tool. I first saw the film as a kid and was fascinated with the concept of birds attacking people (which does happen here in Australia when magpies get a bit overprotective during spring.) On Sunday I spoke about the [...]