Rebecca (1940)
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."
Rebecca rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb8.1/10· 160K votes
Rotten Tomatoes98%
Metacritic86%
TMDb7.892/10· 2K votesWith 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.1/10 on IMDb and 86/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.
About Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Cast of Rebecca
Laurence Olivier
as Maxim de Winter
Joan Fontaine
as Mrs. de Winter
George Sanders
as Jack Favell
Judith Anderson
as Mrs. Danvers
Gladys Cooper
as Beatrice Lacy
Nigel Bruce
as Giles Lacy
Reginald Denny
as Frank Crawley
C. Aubrey Smith
as Colonel Julyan
Melville Cooper
as Coroner
Florence Bates
as Edythe Van Hopper
Leonard Carey
as Ben
Leo G. Carroll
as Dr. Baker
Our take on Rebecca
Hitchcock's 1940 gothic romance follows a shy young bride into a grand estate haunted by the memory of her husband's glamorous, dead first wife. Lush, suspenseful and dripping with dread, it turns a marriage into a ghost story without a ghost. If its atmospheric unease and psychological tension gripped you, seek out gothic thrillers and mysteries where the past refuses to stay buried.
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Hitchcock crafts atmospheric Gothic mystery with genuine dread and psychological tension
- •Age-gap romance explores power dynamics and insecurity with fascinating moral complexity
- •Cornish mansion becomes character itself, looming over the narrative with ominous presence
What the audience disliked
- •Black and white period cinematography may feel slow-paced to contemporary viewers
- •Female lead's passivity and self-doubt drive narrative, frustrating modern sensibilities
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