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The Birds
This mysterious story tells of many strange events, where Melanie Daniels meets Mitch Brenner at a pet shop in San Francisco. Maybe things might change completely, as Melanie decides to go to Mitch at home and bring a gift for love where they both live romantically. In the end, you slowly take on a strange role when birds of all kinds start suddenly attacking people, which is amazing.
10 May 1914, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
22 February 1902, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
13 September 1895, Coldwater, Michigan, USA
18 July 1934, Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA
11 January 1930, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
20 February 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 April 1949, Bristol, England, UK
14 May 1921, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
31 January 1937, New York City, New York, USA
26 April 1878, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
4 April 1921, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
13 August 1899, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
September 29, 2015
The true genius of the film, based on a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier, is the way Hitchcock makes the malevolent birds seem like manifestations of his characters' mental unease.
March 21, 2015
In the thick of an impeccable narrative that pays deep attention to all those involved, the great filmmaker manages to reach far inside the psychological chasm and find a rich inspiration.
October 09, 2012
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
October 06, 2013
This Hitchcock classic somehow strayed from favour for a while, yet in the realm of popular mythology it is now rivalled only by Vertigo or Psycho.
October 07, 2008
The movie flaps to a plotless end.
January 18, 2013
Drawing from the relatively invisible literary talents of Daphne DuMaurier and Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock has fashioned a major work of cinematic art, and "cinematic" is the operative term here, not "literary" or "sociological."
September 21, 2007
Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.
October 09, 2012
Hitch's much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films -- a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror.
July 29, 2015
The picture pursues these false clues with excessive long-windedness and occasional fatuity. It is a tribute to Hitchcock's mastery of his craft that, even so, he makes overpoweringly real the menace of the birds.
December 16, 2011
The Birds represents better than any other Hitchcock film the extreme polarities of his universe: vicious unpredictability and moral and emotional disorder on the one hand, and rigorous stylistic control and formal organization, on the other.
March 28, 2017
Hitchcock prolongs his prelude to horror for more than half the film, playing with audience suspense with comedy and romance while he sets his stage. The horror when it comes is a hair-raiser ...
October 06, 2013
Though it lacks the psychological depth of Hitchcock's greatest works, it's characterised by a nightmarish simplicity.
