HitchcockJohn

HitchcockJohn is a Canadian Unterganger notable for creating the U-Boat Parodies.

Background
In the summer of 2010, HitchcockJohn, out of boredom, created a short music video based on Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker set to the Kate Bush song Army Dreamers. He soon set up an account on YouTube and posted the video, and it wasn't long before he began creating more music video based on other films set to Kate Bush songs, later on expanding to cover specific genres and occasionally trying out other types of videos, such as a re-cut trailer for Apocalypse Now.

Eventually, HitchcockJohn developed a strong interest in the Downfall parodies, going as far as to subscribe to Hitler Rants Parodies. One day, after seeing one of HRP's centered around Hitler ranting about Rebecca Black's song "Friday", he got an idea for a video response. He created a short video using an unsubtitled clip from the movie Das Boot, and centered it around the Captain learning why Hitler did not like Rebecca Black's song. This video became his first U-Boat parody. Over the next few weeks, as Hitler Rants Parodies posted new videos, HitchcockJohn would frequently make video responses involving the U-Boat crew remarking on the subject matter of one of his videos. To his surprise, these videos were very well recieved by viewers, leading him to make more.

He further got his chance to improve the U-Boat parodies when HRP began posting a series of "Hitler V.S. The Justin Bieber Fans" videos, to which he responded with short videos to the U-Boat crew fighting against the UBFA. The second of these videos also marked his first actual Downfall parody, which focused on Himmler creating a plan to defeat the UBFA.

HitchcockJohns first independant Downfall parody was "Hitler Reviews the Desert Fox" a short parody he created after watching the 1951 film of the same name.

Trademarks
HitchcockJohn is a huge fan of Kate Bush, and this fact is something he's referenced in his parodies. Oftentimes he has used her work as an example of "good music" to use as a contrast to the less popular artist Justin Bieber.

He also enjoys making strange cross-overs between Downfall (Der Untergang) and other films, often trying to find unusual choices, such as Apocalypse Now and No Country for Old Men.