Best thriller films · 1001 canon

Suspense as architecture

Hitchcock taught the canon how thrillers work: place a question in act one, withhold the answer, place a clock somewhere visible. The 1001's thrillers are mostly his children — Rear Window, North by Northwest, plus everyone who learned from him.

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