Alfred Hitchcock is one of the 10 most important Americans for people to know in history for many reasons. People should know about Hitchcock because he changed the way society sees and creates films. The second reason people should know about Hitchcock is because critics created the term “Hitchcockian Film” after one of his first suspenseful films, The Lodge, was released in 1927. After the opening of his film Psycho (1960), critics later coined the important genre “Horror” which endures today. Alfred Hitchcock know as “The Master of Suspense” was born August 13, 1899 and passed away April 29, 1980 due to a kidney failure. Hitchcock’s upbringing in Leytonstone, London, consisted of strict Catholic rules, education, and fearful memories from