"You thought you could be Mrs. de Winter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers! But she's too strong for you. You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman."

Fear. It is the single, most terrifying concept known to mankind. It is notorious for paralyzing those who seek it, or those who are haunted by it. Yet, fear is not a tangible object. In fact, fear does not have a face or a voice or any physical attributes that can cause real harm to those who seek it. Alfred Hitchcock is the father of fear. Because he takes the essence of fear and harnesses it to its core. In his 1940 film Rebecca, Hitchcock demonstrates the core of fear "you are afraid of what you cannot see." The film surrounds a newly married couple and the haunted memories of the late wife's ghost. However, throughout the entire film, you never see Rebecca. There is not one picture of her, one flashback, or image of the late wife. And she is the ghost to be feared. The sheer memory of her paralyzes the new wife and almost makes her commit suicide. This is why Hitchcock is the master of fear, because he can make the viewer afraid of something that never appears. The sheer anticipation of Rebecca's arrival can make the audience afraid.