Alfred Hitchcock was a master of producing chilling films. In Rope, there's actually no real mystery; we see the two young friends commit the murder onscreen. They believe they've cleverly hidden their crime in plain sight. The body is stashed in a cabinet that they prominently display during a dinner party, daring their guests to figure out what they've done.
Only their nosy college professor, played by the legendary Jimmy Stewart, suspects that something is up. Sir Alfred builds up the suspense while the audience begins to see the two killers begin to unravel. Will they be found out? These two killers are made all the scarier because they appear to be two normal young men who commit a murder simply because they want to see if they could get away with it. Anyone would trust guys like these, right?
