VERTIGO & MARNIE Episode 12: Omphalophobia, The Fear of Belly Buttons

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Welcome, WoHo's! It's Quinntage #1: A segment where Quinn comes by and classes up the joint and lends her experience with older/vintage horror films to the films Mac and I yammer on about in the main episodes. I hope you enjoy and if you have some thoughts, please get in touch on Instagram, Twitter or email ([email protected])

Next week Mac and I are back with Episode 1 of Season 2. We'll be talking about the two versions of Funny Games. Can't wait to see you then!!

A few notes:

Naomi Watts was photographed as Marnie for a 2013 Vanity Fair spread on Hitchcock Films.

Omphalophobia is the fear of belly buttons.

Hitchcock's The Bomb Under the Table Analogy talks about the difference between surprise and suspense:
“Four people are sitting around a table, talking about baseball or whatever you’d like. Five minutes of it. Very dull. Suddenly a bomb goes off. Blows the people to smithereens. What does the audience have? Ten seconds of shock. Now, take the same scene and tell the audience there is a bomb under that table and [it] will go off in five minutes. Well, the whole emotion of the audience is totally different, because you’ve given them that information.”

Love you, mean it. Don't go into the basement!
--Mom

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