Storyline

Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high anxiety," in order to clear his name. An homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock; contains many parodies of famous Hitchcock scenes from THE BIRDS, PSYCHO, and VERTIGO.

Plot Keywords

1970s, hotel, night, ocean, rain, darkroom, dominatrix, psychiatric hospital, shower, hotel room, title spoken by character, spoof, directed by star, shower curtain, psychic, airport, bridge, car accident, san francisco california, acrophobia

Short Review

One of the problems with Mel Brooks's High Anxiety is that it picks a tricky target: It's a spoof of the work of Alfred Hitchcock, but Hitchcock's films are often funny themselves.

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