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The Birds
Melanie Daniels meets Mitch Brenner in a San Francisco pet store and decides to follow him home. She brings with her the gift of two love birds and they strike up a romance. But it slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
23 July 1908, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
11 May 1912, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 April 1878, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
7 June 1909, Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
18 July 1934, Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA
22 February 1902, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
9 May 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 February 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4 April 1921, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
15 March 1907, Columbus, Ohio, USA
6 October 1922, California, USA
13 September 1895, Coldwater, Michigan, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
October 06, 2013
Though it lacks the psychological depth of Hitchcock's greatest works, it's characterised by a nightmarish simplicity.
October 09, 2012
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
October 07, 2008
The movie flaps to a plotless end.
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 ...
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.