Do Revenge, the new Netflix original feature, is doing crime right in front of our eyes this episode. The film wears its main influence prominently on its impeccably tailored, pastel, cashmere sleeve: Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, reputedly the master of suspense’s fourth best film (citation needed). But do the films share more in common than their criss cross plot lines? And have attitudes to violence, criminality and revenge changed scene 1951?
The books we referenced this episode:
Creatures of Darkness
https://books.google.com.vc/books?id=kIgfBgAAQBAJ
Hitchcock/Truffaut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchcock/Truffaut