Alfred Hitchcock

All his movies had very blatant similarities that tied them to each other. That being said they were not necessarily good things. Alfred tended to have very strange men that do not mind their own business. The women tend to always, at least by the end of the movie, want to appease the men for god knows what reason.

His sound usage is interesting even if his characters are just plain creepy. He cuts out sound entirely for some of his scenes and it adds a level of...suspense almost. The lack of sound makes you pay more attention to what is being shown directly in the center of the screen and less on the surrounding parts of the screen.

These to things being said I think Hitchcock is overrated as a director. His overall special effects are corny for the eras they were created in and his characters are strange. The only redeeming factor was his sound usage.