The title says it all. I wanted to direct an homage to Alfred Hitchcock with my own modern stamp of course. Acid-Hitchcock, or Rock & Roll-Hitchcock, I'd settle for either of those. And by all means stop me if I sound like an asshole at any point during this article. I made Hysterical Psycho as an acting experiment really in preparation of playing the young Hitch in a film yet to be made called the Number 13. In that film I would play a young bohemian Alfred still living with his insane mother having just directed his first film which was meant to be a comedy but it didn't work as a comedy; however with some brilliant editing his unfunny comedy is transformed into a rather excellent thriller...
So you see where I might have gotten the idea for mixing genres in my film. Funny scary, hysterical psycho. I stole from all my favorites not just Hitchcock (Psycho, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Birds, Rope, etc) but also:
Kubrick (The Shinning), Coppola (Apocalypse Now) Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas) Spielberg (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark), Lucas (Empire Strikes Back), Raimi (Evil Dead) Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) Brooks (Young Frankenstein) and even classic Loony Toons.
This is obviously a movie I would go see...I didn't go to film school so I just put all my favorite shots from movies I loved in and I hoped for the best. You can find shots and references to all of the above films in Hysterical Psycho. I'm an observer a watcher of movies my whole life. I've acted in movies and made my own little short films but never a feature. So I took all of that time I spent admiring other folks work and put it into my own film. The ultimate compliment I think for a film maker. I love movies, many an afternoon skipping school where spent in a funky run down Brooklyn movie theater. Some of these stints would venture as far as Manhattan and the Tribeca cinemas and now film fest was a tangible venue for a young Brooklyn bohemian with thoughts of some day seeing his own face on the silver screen there. And now to have my directorial debut there is just poetic. Everyone who worked on the film made it for the love of the game, and this little Brooklyn boy is freakin' excited to share Hysterical Psycho with you. In the immortal words of Alfred Hitchcock I bid you a very "good evening". Peace, love, enjoy.