BASIC PLOT
A wealthy San Francisco socialite (Tippi Hedren) pursues a man to a small Northern town. Things turn bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.
CAST
Rod Taylor as Mitch
Tippi Hedren as Melanie
FACT
Old Hitchcock seen Tippi Hedren in a small tv advert and liked it so much cast her and got her under contract for the role straight away and even recreated part of the advert at the start of the movie.
THOUGHTS AND BEST BITS
As a kid i love the scene when you have all the cast inside the local restaurant talking over whats going on its one of those great scenes that sort of builds up the tension and has a strange yet good feel to it and of course i loved the ending as it never really ends it just leaves you hanging on as a kid i just wanted to keep watching and was looking around for an answer as to what happens next but was left with just my imagination.
This is pretty fun to watch. kicking of with young Melanie Daniels walking into a bird shop she soon meets Mittch Brenner a young lawyer whos looking to buy some love birds for his younger sister and when Melanie tries to have some fun pretending to work in the shop she helps mitch pick out a pair of love birds but Mitch is onto her and Melanie is left feeling a little stupid. Then Melanie takes the love birds to Mitches and shortly after all hell breaks loose.
Some good old school directing from Hitchcock. the films got that strange fun exciting feel to it sure its old as fuck now and so stupid and simple by todays standards but its some how still fun. Theres some thing menacing about any sort of evil force or thing you cant under stand or see. Unlike most horror films you have a bad guy whos the driving force behind any thing that happens hes walks slow as fuck and always gets ahead lol but this is more fear of the unknown.
The cast are well what you think of for a 60s films we have a young Tippi Hedren whos easy on the eye but really not a patch on some modern day girls lol. We have Rod Tylor yeh hes the guy from THE TIME MACHINE(1960) hes got that typical look huge face and square jaw like how you imagine Captain America having lol. And even old Jessica Tandy shes old and in lots of movies haha but nothing anyone born in the last 50 years is gonna know.
Well its fun yes but its not really what you would call horror these days its more adventure and suspense and crazy and almost silly. Its not like THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT(1999) its easily a movie the kids can watch with you day or night so sex no swear words i can think of and no real blood or gore in any way maybe an eyeball missing scene but its nothing really. It doesnt hold up much these days in the way of horror and any kids born today would never watch this or find it good at all this would be a bore fest.
For me its great fun every other year to stick this on and watch it i love the dinner scene when you have all the cast members talking and really setting a feel and mood for the film. Having characters just sit around talking like real people almost adding a little back story to the characters and to the film making it seem almost real and possible unlike fast passed films these days to fit the needs of generation x that click youtube videos every 45 seconds lol this is a sit own and talk movie. But near the end it keeps the same pace and never really builds up to any thing big. But i do love the end when they walk out the home and see like thousands of birds all around SPOILERS hey the films 54 years old haha get over it.
Best quote."Its the end of the world"
119 mins long. cert pg. 1963.
This old classic gets 6 out of 10 on my finger scale.
