Emotional engagement is key to good filmmaking, and you laugh and cry and are afraid when you are in the hands of a master director like Hitchcock.
A: Hitchcock plays with emotions like fear in various ways. You aren't just afraid when scary things happen to your favorite character in a film, but also somewhere inside the audience is someone who wants to be scared. It's cathartic. But it's not just horror films. Hitchcock knows how to play with all of our emotions for a film. Emotional engagement is key to good filmmaking, and you laugh and cry and are afraid when you are in the hands of a master director like Hitchcock.