10 Creepiest Alfred Hitchcock Movie Moments

1. The Potato Truck Scene In Frenzy

Frenzy, made in 1972, is considered to be one of Hitchcock's final masterpieces before his death in 1980. The film is about a serial killer in London, and alludes early on to Jack The Ripper and The Christie Murders, making the film very real in terms of historic murder stories. Robert Rusk has a bad habit of raping and murdering women; and there's one woman called Babs in particular who suffers a rather horrible fate. After killing Babs, Rusk puts her in a bag filled with potatoes and slings it onto a truck. Job done, he heads home and pours himself a congratulatory drink. He realises too late that he's lost an initialed tie pie; after searching the house, he assumes Babs must have it on her dead person. And he's right: so Rusk has to go back to the truck and get it out. Unfortunately for both Babs and Rusk, Babs' body is already in the stages of rigour mortis, and sadly, the pin is trapped inside her stiff dead fingers. Don't worry though: Rusk will stop at nothing to conceal his crimes. While it's scary in itself that a man has hidden a dead body in a sack of potatoes and is now going over the body to find what's his, it's even worse when he starts to break all her fingers to retrieve the pin. The scene from start to end is 12 minutes long; it's not only creepy, it's pretty gross when the cracking sounds of Babs' fingers breaking are resounding through your television speakers.