My second Alfred Hitchcock movie. I've seen it parodied on the Simpsons and on other media, but I never saw the movie before.
This movie is about a small town in which Birds are going crazy and attacking people. The center of the story is Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hendren), who got to this town to visit Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), who she met a day ago. She arrives in the town just as the attacks start.
It starts off feeling like a typical romantic comedy of the 60s (like Breakfast at Tiffany's), two people meeting in a weird way and then following it off by meeting again. Interesting enough it all begins in a bird shop, and one of the first things that's mentioned is weird behavior of birds. So it started off with foreshadowing right from the beginning, but as an unsuspecting member of the audience it could very well just be a typical romantic comedy up to the point of the attack of the Birds, which only really starts at least 30 minutes into the movie.
The special effects were astonishing for the time. In some scenes you can see that the birds aren't really in the same room as the actors but to be honest, if I saw that 50 years ago I'd believe it. And it still looks more believable than some of the stuff we see today.
The acting was very good, of course it was the typical 60s acting so it didn't feel as good compared to today but I always see it for the time.
All in all a very enjoyable movie and I'd call it a horror movie. I rate it 4 out of 5 stars and a like.
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