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Sir Alfred Joesph Hitchcock is a British/American filmmaker. He helped make the modern day Thriller genre what it is today, beginning with his early silent films.

He was given this title because he had the ability to manipulate his audience's fears and desires, and take his viewers into "shoes of the character", making them feel the reality of the presented situation.

His first film released in 1927 was entitled "The Lodger:A Story Of The London Fog", which is about a landlady who suspects her new lodger is "the madman" killing women in London. There is one main difference between his first film and his films of today and that is that his early films were silent, unlike the ones today.

Hitchcock's films often contained many conventions, he would place an innocent victim into a strange, life-threatening situation, normally due to mistaken identity, misidentification or wrongful accusation. He would often interweave a taboo or sexually-related theme into his films which, in the days of his early releases, was a very rare thing.