We see HitchCon ‘26 in your future—
Hitchcockian Wizardry: Myth, Magic & the Macabre
October 3 & 4, 2026 • Online
Meet your guides into the mystery.
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Joel Gunz
Host, HitchCon
Filmmaker and writer, “Hitchcock’s Hermetic Hermeneutics” (forthcoming)Talk: Family Plot and the Magic of Pure Cinema
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Victoria Nelson
Author, The Secret Life of Puppets
In conversation: Pursuit, Paranoia and the Language of Birds
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Stella Castelli
Author, Death is Served: American Recipes for Murder—A Serial Compulsion.
Talk: Twin Peaks: A Tale Enabled by Absent Female Bodies
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JF Martel
Co-host, Weird Studies podcast; author, Art in the Age of Artifice
Talk: A Dream of Dark and Troubling Things
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Rebecca McCallum
Writer, Speaker, Curator and Creator & Host of Talking Hitchcock Podcast
Talk: A Strangely Familiar Home Invasion in Shadow of a Doubt
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Sidney Gottlieb
HitchCon Board Member
Editor, The Hitchcock Annual, Hitchcock on Hitchcock and Haunted by VertigoTalk: In Conversation: Family Plot
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Caroline Young
Author, Fashioning Hitchcock: Stories Behind the Costumes from The Lodger to Marnie
Talk: The Other Vanishing Lady: Monograms and Magic in The Lady Vanishes
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Steven DeRosa
HitchCon Board Member
Author, Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael HayesTalk: Scripting the Con: Hitchcock, Lehman, and the Final Wink of Family Plot
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David Sterritt
Author, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Revised & Expanded)
Talk: In Conversation: Family Plot
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Thomas Leitch
Author, The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia and Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games
Talk: Haunted Hitchcock
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Oisin Queally
Folklorist and filmmaker, The Hollowing
Talk: The Island That Likes to Be Visited: Hitchcock, Myth and the Phantom Place
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Elizabeth (Beth) Bullock
HitchCon Board Member
Author, “Imaginary Women in Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman” in Vertigo 65 (forthcoming)Talk: “This Whole House is a Hotbed of Spies and Saboteurs”: Hitchcockian Farcical Espionage in McGoohan’s The Prisoner
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Richard Gilmore
Author, Hitchcock as Philosopher of the Erotic
Talk: Hitchcock and the Myth of the Fall
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Colleen Glenn
Editor, Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering
Talk: La-La Lynch: Mulholland Drive and the Nightmare Factory
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Kelly Bulkeley
Author, Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion
Talk: The Gift of David Lynch’s Dream Logic
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Nick Haeffner
Author, Alfred Hitchcock
Talk: Lost in the Stars: An Anti-auteurist Approach to the Work of David Lynch
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Katy Coakley
Documentary filmmaker, “There’s No Planet B!”
Talk: I Think You’ve Got The Wrong Guy! An Absurdist Approach to Mistaken Identities in North by Northwest and The Big Lebowski
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Mark Padilla
Author, Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Talk: “Well, a Boy’s Best Friend is his Mother”: Musings on How Aeschylus and Eugene O’Neill Nurture the Tragic Expression of Psycho
HitchCon ‘26: behold your future
The magic of cinema. The phrase alone evokes the mysterious, uncanny power of the moving image—and Alfred Hitchcock was a true adept. His films traffic in all manner of magic from sleight-of-hand editing tricks to strange doubles, animistic touches and flirtations with the supernatural. Join your fellow Hitchcock fans for an exclusive peek behind the veil. At HitchCon ‘26, an international conclave of scholars and seekers will peer into the Master’s work to divine meaning from the weird, the eerie and the dreamlike. We’ll also shine a lantern on his final sorcerous act, Family Plot (1976). And, as always, you’ll have ample time to lend your voice to spirited Icebox Conversations that last late into the night.
Session times
Sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m. Pacific / 11:30 a.m. Eastern / 4:30 p.m UK.
Conference recording
Can’t make the whole weekend? Video recordings will be available to registered ticketholders.
New for HitchCon ‘26
Hitchcock’s Heirs
A Hitchcockian spotlight on David Lynch
Beginning with HitchCon ‘26, selected presentations will feature a director whose work follows in a Hitchcockian tradition, loosely defined. This year, pour yourself a cup of hot, black coffee as we follow a scarlet thread into the dark regions of contemporary cinema haunted by one of Hitchcock’s most gifted heirs: the late wizard of high weirdness, David Lynch.
HitchCons Past
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