This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I remember being kind of disappointed with The Lodger the first time I saw it, mainly because of the ending where it was revealed that the titular lodger was not in fact the Jack the Ripper like killer stalking the city and that said killer rarely makes an actual appearance. Seeing it now, and knowing what to expect that didn’t really bother me too much at all and Hitchcock’s most famous silent film comes across a whole lot better. The…