10 Movies That Were Filmed But Never Finished
1. Kaleidoscope
With Marine and Torn Curtain came a career-harming low for Alfred Hitchcock. However, in a bid to reinvent himself, the master of suspense envisaged Kaleidoscope, a thriller teeming with rape, murder and necrophilia. The movie was on course to becoming something truly magnificent, even by Hitchs standards.
The graphic murder mystery was to show off many radical techniques such as hand-held filming, point-of-view and natural lighting (all of which are now conventional methods of filmmaking). Owing to a lack of funding, Hitchcocks slice of cinéma vérité amounted to nothing more than a laborious pre-production process and sixty-minutes of raw footage.
Nonetheless, elements of Kaleidoscope can be seen on show in Hitch's penultimate movie Frenzy, as he recycles his intentions into a more successful project.
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