Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette
I am not crazy about this movie, but I do like the suspense and mystery of it. Flocks and flocks of birds inexplicably start attacking and killing the people of a small California town. They attack and then sit calmly, and then attack again, even breaking violently into homes and through windows.
SPOILER!!!
Two things: The scene in the playground is the best! There's a few birds at first, she looks away, more birds, she lights her cigarette, and suddenly there are hundreds of birds on the playground! And then when the kids and the two women are running down the hill with the birds behind them! I just like how the scene looks.
What I hate: Tippi is really afraid of the birds, and she listens, horrified as they swoop around the house. So WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY does she go upstairs when she hears them IN the house and open that door??????? That part is one of those stupid moments in scary movies (not that The Birds is scary-it really is not) where the girl goes somewhere where you KNOW she is going to get hurt and you want to throttle her through the screen!
The ending is the strangest ending ever.
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