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Name: High Anxiety
Released: 1978-2-1
Cast: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman

High Anxiety

PG
1h 34m
1978

75%

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Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman join writer-director-co-star comedy genius Mel Brooks in this hilarious homage to Hitchcock. After a Harvard psychiatrist (Brooks) takes over the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, he realizes his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances. And when he winds up accused of the crime, he gets a serious case of High Anxiety.

Director:

Mel Brooks

Producer:

Mel Brooks

Writer:

Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson

Cast:

Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

75%

Critics Consensus: Uneven but hilarious when it hits, this spoof of Hitchcock movies is a minor classic in the Mel Brooks canon.

Reviews

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Rene Jordan

This is the film that is parasitic for excellence, because it feeds on almost every scene of something that Hitchcock previously previewed. [Full review in Spanish]

The film isn’t continuously funny, nor is it consistently suspenseful, but it does do a spectacular job of sending up Hitchcock’s classics.

Mel Brooks, during his peak years, never met a genre he couldn't wrestle to the ground. And High Anxiety, his 1977 tribute to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, is a masterpiece of characterization, design and execution.

More than an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, High Anxiety is a copycat. [Full Review in Spanish]

[VIDEO ESSAY] Mel Brooks's flair for comic riffing against a stylized background of plot devices draws on a long tradition of spoof movies that date back to the first days of sound cinema.

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW