Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Mel Brooks
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Fox)
Mel Brooks is a psychiatrist who is hired as the new head of a mental institute after the mysterious death of the former chief. He is greeted by the eccentric staff including Cloris Leachman as Nurse Diesel and Harvey Korman as her lover and one of the doctors. They plot to murder other staff members and eventually Brooks while he is away at a convention. Brooks' zany satire of Hitchcock is just as much a tribute. The gags are hit or miss, but when they hit they are hilarious, particularly the "shower scene" from Psycho and the bird "attack" spoofing The Birds.
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