Frogs on film

And so Hitchcock has been forced to modify his hopes for the film's future. Yet instead of resigning himself to its fate in limbo, he imagines a bright, brilliant future for his tiny, fragile little movie. If it ain't gonna make it into theaters, perhaps it will one day become the stuff of Sensaround legend.

"I hope it will last," he says. "I'd like to think that eventually it became one of those things like the Blues Brothers or Airplane!, where people would say"--he affects a nasal American accent--"'Hey, let's go and get some beers and rent Storefront, man,' or something. Put it on their state-of-the-art digital, room-to-room thing, whatever people will be watching on in five or 10 years' time." He brightens.

"Maybe they'll have home IMAX and you'll be lying in bed and you'll actually think you're in the audience. They'll have artificial heads all around you so you'll just think you're one of them. Maybe they'll enjoy virtual Hitchcock." Maybe they already are.