Don't Look Behind You story
An undergraduate medical student at a college campus thinks that she will be the victim of a ritualistic murder. Directed by: John Brahm. Story by: Barre Lyndon.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| academic occupation | major | The story is set in a college town and explores the unusual interests of some of its faculty members. |
| engaged couple | major | Daphne and Harold were engaged. |
| human mental condition | major | Both Harold and Edwin appeared to be deranged killers. |
| love triangle | major | Dave made efforts to woo Daphne, even though she was engaged to his fellow faculty member, Harold. |
| sadism | major | The initial dinner conversation turned to human wickedness and things like torture and the Marquis de Sade were mentioned. This was in the context of the serial murderer that stalked the woods, and foreshadowed later events. A deranged Harold uttered the phrase "pain is only a secret name for pleasure" before attempting to go to work on his fiancée with a strangling cord and a knife. |
| serial murder | major | The psychologist Harold was interested in the minds of serial murders, in particular the one who was thought to be active on campus. Edwin turned out to be the serial killer women who was the talk of the college campus. |
| historical figure | minor | Harold brought up the notorious serial killers Jack the Ripper, Bluebeard of Gambais, and Fritz Haarmann at a dinner party. [Jack the Ripper, Bluebeard of Gambais, Fritz Haarmann] |
| misogyny | minor | Edwin's murders were motivated by a hated of women, according to Harold. |
| romantic jealousy | minor | Jack was jealous over Daphne. |
| stage magic | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock feigned to perform some cliched magic tricks on stage. |