he also passed this mentality down to brian de palma. brian de palma never met a woman that he didn't want to see physically and psychologically tortured on screen.
de palma was originally considered to direct the original stepford wives and if he had directed it, katherine ross would have received an even more grisly and unseemly fate.
look what de palma did to jennifer salt in sisters not to mention what he did to sissy spacek in carrie and deborah shelton in body double. how the hell did he think that seeing an innocent woman drilled in the head by a psychopath would be entertainment. oh, that's right, de palma is the same guy who gleefully and pornographically saw to it that gorgeous angie dickenson was razored to shreds in dressed to kill.
yeah, hitchcock passed down a grisly legacy of misogyny to other directors.