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Sure, Alfred Hitchock was the master of suspense, but he was also a master of the mordantly funny trailer. Any one of his bone dry performances could have made this list (his passive-aggressive avian torture in “The Birds” promo, for instance), but his “Psycho” tour-guide routine tops them all.
In the long-form preview, he turns on the obsequious charm, leading the audience towards each crime scene with the tittering unease of an anal-retentive coroner, his hands a bundle of nervous energy. Waddling in front of the Bates’ staircase, he describes the broken, twisted back of a victim with a twirl of his eager paws — before hypocritically embracing discretion. Tip-toeing in front of the motel, his glee at entering the murder site is expressed in a nervous finger fidget, tapping all ten together at the horrors he’s about to unleash. He’s playing this audience-titillating game for laughs, until he reaches for that shower curtain… –R. Emmet Sweeney
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