Birds

Pros: great special effects, good acting & fleshing-out of characters
Cons: not as scary as the reputation

For quite some time I’d been terrified of this film. All I knew from my parents was that it was hideously scary, and not being a particular fan of horror films (and wanting to avoid nightmares), I’d shied away from it for years. When it was on ...

Pros: Excellent use of sound and imagery. 
Cons: It's a bit dated.

The Birds (1963) by Alfred Hitchcock is a timeless and classic that makes for perfect viewing on a night like this.  The Birds is a movie that fit’s into the thriller category quickly aligning the viewer with the Brenner family.  ...

Pros: Good visual effects back then, very suspenseful!
Cons: Lack of plot and character depth compared to other Hitchcock films

Everyone knows Alfred Hitchcock's films usually evolves around certain characters, and in each of these films, we learn a lot about these characters. For example, in Rear Window, we learn that the film's main character, L.B. Jeffries, is a nosey,...

Pros: Good fundamental horror c. 1963
Cons: Somewhat frayed around the edges with time

The Birds (1963) In a case of life imitates art we have Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) who is our passport into the story of The Birds. Hedren plays a gossip column item, similar to today's Paris Hilton, who seems to be famous for being ...

Pros: Original, suspenseful, the Bar Scene is hilarious. "It's the end of the world!"
Cons: Dawdling introduction. Swoop on down already! I know, I'm terrible.

The Birds is half love story, half nightmare, and something that is really hard to get away with nowadays. It is a story of many layers, open to the most outlandish of interpretation, and has subtext oozing out of its ears. I've seen this movie ...

Pros: Entertaining mostly suspenseful movie.
Cons: Slow at times.  Won’t be as scary for some viewers.

Alfred Hitchcock became known for his suspenseful movies like North by Northwest and Psycho.  I have seen several, but not all, of his movies and I have enjoyed them ...

Pros: Voted the seventh scariest movie of all time according to the Times in London. Hitchcock.
Cons: Are you kidding?

The Birds (1963) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The Birds is perhaps the best example of getting the most out of something simple. The title is simple, so is the concept, in the small coastal village of Bodega Bay, for reasons unknown ...

Pros: Great study of complex relationships, a claustrophobic and suspenseful film
Cons: Oooooh, scary birds...If birds don't scare you, don't expect much in that department

I have to preface this review by saying that I've seen The Birds probably more times than I've seen Psycho, and while it doesn't really work for me as a "ooooh, scary bird" movie, it does feature some very interesting relationships and some good moments o ...

Pros: Stunning sequences of violence and mass hysteria - the stuff that textbook examples are made of
Cons: The birds look a little phony; slow pace may infuriate some audiences

Only Alfred Hitchcock could take a premise which is so patently ridiculous - the birds come to life and try to kill everybody - and construct a beautifully realized thriller. Based on a disturbing short story by the macabre Daphne DuMaurier (who also...

Pros: Cool Concept, Scary, Good Effects for the Time Period, Imaginative
Cons: Plot Full of ?'s, Ending Unfulfilling, Long & Without Closure, Acting Mediocre

I have distant memories of Alfred Hitchcock re-runs on TV when I was younger (in the illustrious '80s, mind you) and from what I recall, his stuff was generally highly chilling.

"The Birds" certainly doesn't fall short...

Pros: All Star Cast, Vintage Hitchcock, Truly terrifying, because it seems so POSSIBLE
Cons: dated special effects;still amazing Absence of Guano is a notable omission

For many years I have been the bane of my new age friends, who listen to New Age Music. You know what I'm talking about: the sounds of water (I like that) coupled with the screech of sea-gulls. I realize that always, deep in the center of my little pea...

Pros: cinematography
Cons: characters, special effects, story

While Hitchcock made many outstanding films (especially Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Rear Window, Psycho, Suspicion and Notorious), he also made many less satisfying movies. Along with Vertigo and...

Pros: Suspenseful, Impressive effects, Great plot, Scary
Cons: Unimpressive ending, Acting, Sound

Inevitably, whenever my friends and I go to Blockbuster, there is a debate on what we should watch. As we finish bringing up, then shooting down, movies in the comedy, drama, and action section we wind our way to the back where the classics can be found....

Pros: Just an excellent film
Cons: Not shown on television enough

I choose to rent “The Birds”, in my everlasting quest to view all Hitchcock movies at least once. Unfortunately the video store was one of those cruddy franchised video store that only stocks “Psycho” and “The Birds”. I was hoping to find rear window,...

Pros: Great film
Cons: Scary!!!

One major aspect that distinguishes “The Birds”, released in 1963, from the rest of Hitchcock’s films is the fact that he chooses a change of course by using a story that has to do with evil in nature instead of in society. Most if not all of his films...