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Birds, The (1963) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
273 |
Avg. Rating: |
3.06/4 |
# of Ratings: |
435 |
Genres: |
Horror, Thriller |
Rating: |
PG |
Language: |
English |
Theater Date: | 03/28/1963 |
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Director: |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Actors: |
Suzanne Pleshette .
Rod Taylor
Jessica Tandy
Veronica Cartwright
Tippi Hedren
Malcolm Atterbury |
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Plot Outline:
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A slew of birds begin attacking a small town where a girl chases down a guy see likes.
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Snoogans 12/04/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
Hitchcock's 'monster movie' about a real-life (seemingly harmless) breed of animal. He uses some clever camera work and editing, along with various forms of SFX, to get past the restrictions of the effects of the time. There are many memorable scenes and I did like the absence of closure to the story. |
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mitchellyoung 12/04/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
Despite the seemingly harmless antagonist, this film is one of the more terrifying Hitchcock films. Hitchcock manages to capture a ferocity and sense of helplessness that injects a lot of tension into every scene. He also displays some of his more inventive and artful camera angles and tricks, all serving to propel the mood and plot forward. |
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Ikkinbot 10/20/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
This is just one of those movies you have to see, if only to say you've seen it. That being said, its actually really good. And remains very creepy . . . in fact I'd probably like it more if I didn't think it was so creepy. |
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03/18/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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"The Birds" by Yojimbo |
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Playful heiress Tippi Hedren pursues handsome lawyer Rod Taylor to the sleepy coastal village of Bodega Bay only to become besieged by flocks of killer birds. This film is another of Hitchcock's most influential and its formula pretty much became the blueprint for all disaster/creature features that followed. The premise is of course ridiculous, but this film is more of a showcase for directorial expertise. It begins with the usual soapy set up as we get to know the main characters, and it seems more a breezy romance with some nice snappy dialogue and likable characters. Hitchcock then builds the tension in his inimitable style, as waves of attackers slowly appear, subside and reappear while the increasingly paranoid victims wait for the next onslaught holed up in an isolated house; Night... |
Rating of
3/4 |
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10/04/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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The Birds review |
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Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) sends a gift of lovebirds to his new found Lawyer friend Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor). She also befriends Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette), a former admirer of Mitch. I have mixed feelings about this horrific flick. I would like to emphasize the good aspects of the picture, which includes the score, cinematography, visual effects and the fear factor that it brings with the believable acting. This has to be the most realistic horror flicks produced, and tension build-up was exceptional. Now for the negative, you really felt the stupidity of certain situations such as bringing out the kids when you can already see the birds outside and Melanie opening the door when she already saw the roof broken by the creatures. Nothing was explained by the director a... |
Rating of
3/4 |
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10/04/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Where is my BB Gun! |
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It can't be denied that "The Birds" is still, even after 45 years, definitely one of the very greatest horror movies ever. The big secret behind its unbelievable effectiveness is actually more simple than we think. When filmmakers are shooting horror flicks they usually scare audience by using psychopaths, aliens, dinosaurs, sharks, spiders, snakes...all sort of devilish creatures, horrible monsters or notorious animals people already find frightening. It's a rather easy, unsurprising and tedious solution to do it. Alfred Hitchcock's marvelous idea was totally opposite from this principle. He took the most innocent and harmless creatures we can possibly think of - ordinary birds - and turned 'em into dreadful monsters with no reason what so ever. When a killer beneath the sea or a bloodlu... |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
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