High Anxiety

High Anxiety

  • Director: Mel Brooks
  • Writer: Mel Brooks,Ron Clark,Rudy De Luca
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: December 25, 1977
  • Sound mix: Dolby
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Visoka napetost
  • This film is a commemorative film dedicated to suspense master Hitchcock. People can see the shadow of some Hitchcock classic films in the film, such as "Vertigo" and "Bird", etc. May play Thorndike Er - Brooks showed many talents, Mel. Brooks, who is also a writer, director and actor, has taken several Hitchcock masterpieces and made them comedy, making it a highly entertaining suspense comedy. A psychiatrist with a fear of heights arrives as the new director of an insane asylum, but the old man in the asylum tries to murder him. The film is especially entertaining to viewers who are familiar with His work.

    Details

    • Release date December 25, 1977
    • Filming locations Hyatt Regency Hotel - 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California, USA
    • Production companies Crossbow Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $4,015,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $31,063,038

    Gross worldwide

    $31,063,038

    Movie reviews

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    • By Conor 2022-10-16 10:24:28

      Acrophobia is not a cheap alternative

      In modern terms, this work is a serious parody of Hitchcock's "Psycho" and "Vertigo". Judging from the intention and the degree of intention to create the play at the time, it is a salute to Hitchcock.

        "Psycho" and "Vertigo" are thriller and suspense crime films, while "Acrophobia" is an alternative pure comedy. Even if the main line of the narrative is murder, incorporating elements of suspense, thriller, mystery, etc., it cannot be denied that it does frame the plot with a comedy...

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    • By Bartholome 2023-08-30 11:45:09

      I watched a movie when I was in elementary school with a videotape and watched it over and over many times. The one that impressed me the most was the old woman with a leather whip and a giant-pointed bra. . Now I know it's sm....

    • By Zachary 2023-08-14 22:08:11

      Although the Psycho part was so predictable, it still made me laugh. I am particularly curious about how people who have never seen Hitchcock will react to this kind of movie. I really want to find someone to test...

    • By Frieda 2023-08-11 23:51:34

      His fans were overjoyed to see it, and although it wasn't big enough, in some places, such as imitating the plot of "Psycho", it was a stroke of...

    • By Gerda 2023-08-10 23:07:29

      After watching this movie on TV when I was a child, I always suspected that I also had acrophobia. Now I think about it, it was actually a spoof of Xi...

    • By Xzavier 2023-08-09 20:34:56

      Hitchcock's Big Skewers + One Flew Over the Cuckoo's...

    Behind the scenes gags

    Mel. Brooks, who is also a writer, director and actor, has taken several Hitchcock masterpieces and made them comedy, making it a highly entertaining suspense comedy. A psychiatrist with a fear of heights arrives as the new director of an insane asylum, but the old man in the asylum tries to murder him. The film is especially entertaining to viewers who are familiar with His work. Madeleine on the same stage. Kahn, Cloris. Leachman and...
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    Movie quotes

    • Bellboy: HERE! HERE! HERE! HERE'S YOUR PAPER! HERE'S YOUR PAPER! HERE'S YOUR PAPER! HAPPY NOW? HAPPY? HAPPY NOW?

    • Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke: [while climbing the stairs to the tower Dr. Thorndyke is hanging on by a thumbnail after stepping on a bad step. He has a flashback to when he was a baby and his parents are arguing. He returns to the present] I understand now. I understand now. It's not heights I'm afraid of, it's parents!

      Dr. Vicktor Lillolman: Yeah. Yeah. Now climb you son-of-a-bitch! Climb!

      [after hearing that Dr. Thorndyke pulls himself back up on the stairs and safety]

    • Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke: [addressing the audience at the American Psychiatric Convention] Fellow analysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, and laypeople. Today, I would like to discuss some of the lesser-known aspects of psychobiological therapy. One hundred years ago, psychology was akin to witchcraft. But some of these great people - these giants behind me - gave us... a nice living.