FILM fans will be treated to a series of celebrated thrillers during this year’s Oxford Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow.

The Oxford Mail and the Phoenix Picturehouse in Walton Street are once again staging their annual film festival, which this year will be presenting the greatest films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Over the six-day festival, we’ll be screening movies like Psycho, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Lodger and Strangers On A Train.

Jeremy Smith, Oxford Mail entertainment editor, said the festival promised to deliver shocks and thrills aplenty.

He said: “From the unforgettable shower scene in Psycho to the iconic crop duster attack in North By Northwest – named by Empire magazine as the greatest scene of all time – this week-long presentation of Hitchcock classics clearly shows how the Leytonstone lad, famous in his own right for his blink-and-you’ll-miss-him cameos, laid the groundwork for today’s cinema.”

The Alfred Hitchcock Festival starts tomorrow at 1.30pm with a double bill of The Lodger and Strangers On A Train. This is followed by Vertigo (Monday, 9pm), Rear Window (Tuesday, 9pm), Psycho (Wednesday, 9pm), Frenzy (Thursday, May 12, 9pm) and North By Northwest (Friday, 9pm).

Tickets are half price for anyone who presents a copy of that day’s Oxford Mail.

l For more information, call Jeremy Smith on 01865 425435 or the Phoenix on 01865 316570.

Alternatively, go to facebook.com/ PhoenixPicturehouse or twitter.com/ PhoenixPH