Hitchcock Waxes Directorial in Hollywood

The Hollywood branch of Madame Tussaud's has unveiled its new figure of Alfred Hitchcock, which will be on exhibit to the viewing public starting August 1.

Wax museums have always creeped me out (thank you, Vincent Price), and I've never quite understood the allure. I suppose it's chance to exclaim things like, "I never knew he was so short!"

And some of the figures are just...off, somehow, and all the more creepy as a result. At least this one is a faithful likeness of the director, who in life celebrated the morbid and the macabre. So, at least for Hitchcock, it's a fitting tribute.

The director in 1956, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons