About this Movie
High Anxiety
After spoofing Westerns with ''Blazing Saddles'' and horror movies with ''Young Frankenstein,'' Mel Brooks takes on Hitchcock thrillers with this hilarious homage that lovingly parodies scenes from such classics as ''Spellbound,'' ''Vertigo,'' ''Psycho,'' ''The Birds'' and others. Brooks plays a psychiatrist with a fear of heights who becomes the head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous—where the staff are nuttier than the patients—following the mysterious death of his predecessor.
Starring: Mel BrooksMadeline KahnCloris LeachmanHarvey KormanDick Van Patten
Director: Mel Brooks