Oh dear, you may think we have chosen a Horror Fancy dress theme today as we have a premonition regarding the Royal Wedding, but that is not the case at all! In fact, we are all hoping for some good weather and a jolly good time being had by all. However, because these blogs apparently have a readership beyond the shores of Britain and not everybody may be enamoured of the Wedding, we can mention that it’s a sad day for fans of horror and suspense as we note that on this date in 1980 Alfred Hitchcock died.

Despite the fact that several of his films are regarded as masterpieces, he never won an Oscar and when it came to getting possibly his most famous film ‘Psycho’ made and into the cinemas, he virtually had to fund the project on his own as the major studios rejected it. That said, he enjoyed making his audiences play by his rules – not allowing them to be admitted to cinemas once a film had started and forbidding them from revealing twists and endings (as if he’d be able to get away with that nowadays!). He was also famous for his cameo appearances in his movies, even in seemingly impossible scenarios. In ‘Lifeboat’, (1944), a film set almost entirely aboard the boat in question, he was in a slimming corset advert in a newspaper being read by one of the boat’s occupants. In the same film he questioned the use of ‘background music’ in a film set in the open sea – ‘Where does the orchestra come from?’ to which he received the reply ‘The same place as your camera, Mr Hitchcock’.

Costumes derived from Hitchcock specific movies are a little thin on the ground so why not broaden out the theme to include all Horror films? Now we have discussed the theme of horror many times in this blog, so we don’t want to be accused of repeating ourselves, so why not take a look at our previous blogs full of horror costume ideas.

Props n Frocks has huge stocks of Horror costumes, in a great range of sizes, all in stock & available for next working day delivery if you require your items very quickly.