Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Final Cut contains "extracts from six Hitchcock films ("Psycho", "Frenzy", "Torn Curtain", "Rope", "Saboteur" and "Shadow of a Doubt")". "Game Informer" said that with games like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Final Cut", Ubisoft's PC catalog is an area where the company is able to experiment and take risks. The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN wrote that the game offered "no suspense, puzzles of little interest, poor dialog, a tortuous storyline, and awkward control". ActionTrip concluded that "using Hitchcock's name and work was a good marketing move, but, unfortunately the game quality doesn't live up to
B movie helped weaken U.S. film censorship. And, as William Paul notes, this move into the horror genre by respected director Alfred Hitchcock was made, "significantly, with the lowest-budgeted film of his American career and the least glamorous stars. [Its] greatest initial impact ... was on schlock horror movies (notably those from second-tier director William Castle), each of which tried to bill itself as scarier than "Psycho"." Castle's first film in the "Psycho" vein was "Homicidal" (1961), an early step in the development of the slasher subgenre that would take off in the late 1970s. "Blood Feast" (1963), a movie about human