Andy Smith
Andrew Smith is a PhD student at Queen Mary, University of London. Born in Glasgow, he spent five formative years at the University of St Andrews where an interest in horror movies became a passion. Working as a projectionist gave him free access to modern genre cinema whilst heightening his appreciation of gory classics. Combining the academic study of French wine history with more leisurely commentary on horror cinema has proved above all else that the thrills of both wine and horror run as blood red as their thrills.
The Modern Prometheus: Creature and Creator in ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Psycho’
Whilst Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron allow their charges to survive following some epiphany in their narratives, Alfred Hitchcock pushes his characters in Vertigo and Psycho towards the unredemptive and callous ending of Mary Shelley’s monstrous tale.