This film is considered the first Hitchcock's movie, but obviously, it is not actually, but anyways. This movie shows what this great English filmmaker would do during the rest of his successful career. "The Lodger" has everything one can ask about a film-noir movie: a great storyline, credible characters, a hero and a villain, plus the necessary dose of suspense. In this movie, Hitchcock tricks his audience, by showing things one would suppose that in the end result were the opposite. That's a very important feature about the Hitchcockian cinema, and the film-noir cinema overall.

The actors do a great job, especially Ivor Novello, who for nothing it is one of the most recorded British performers in history. This character, more proper of Edgar Allan Poe's tale, is quiet, mysterious, although has a unique personality that rivals his antagonist: his landlady's daughter's fiancé.

The topics touched in this film are diverse, and proper of a gothic novel as well: mystery, suspense, love, passion, vengeance, blood. This movie has everything and clearly shows the psychology of each character, all of them are unique, pointing more effect on Ivor Novello's character, the lodger, because of his uniqueness and mystery.

The techniques Hitchcock used for this movie were very innovative, the angles he took to show the audience the point of view of some characters, especially Daisy's one, pointing out that her point of view, her feelings, were important for the development of the story.

In conclusion, this movie is just perfect, a masterpiece of the silent era, a precursor of what in the next decade would become film noir. This movie marks the beginning of the interesting Hitchcockian filmography.