High Anxiety
Danger, intrigue, romance...and a touch of kinkiness!
Directed by Mel Brooks
Produced by Crossbow Productions, 20th Century Fox
A broad, energetic Hitchcock spoof that mines comedy from paranoia, institutional absurdity, and a protagonist's phobia, balancing satirical humor with genuine thriller mechanics.
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
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