Although it doesn't entirely stick to the book it's based on, the ending to the film was purposely meant to be ambiguous. The book was also a political allegory for The Cold War. But the "real" answer is based on an actual 1961 bird attack, in a town called Capitola. Multiple birds smashed into cars and buildings, and even attempted to enter homes. Apparently, they had digested some type of fish contaminated by toxic algae that caused amnesia, disorientation and seizures.
The Birds wasn't a book it was a short story, though it was published in a book, sure. But it was more about the people at home in the UK in WWII if it was about anything. I mean, come on, kamakazi birds, air raids, people being left to fend for themselves. Hitchcock liked Daphne's stuff.
@@dragontears ...although duMaueier hated Hitchcock's vision. She was baffled as to why the great director had distorted it as he had. The difference between the story and the film is striking, though less in the depiction of the birds' inexplicably aggressive behaviour than in the characters who confront it, and where it all happens. However, she approved Hitchcock's version of her novel "Jamaica Inn" and loved his version of "Rebecca."
@@washo2222 It might have been the studio's insistence that the story was changed. Check out the movie Hitchcock. It's about the making of Psycho. The studio was constantly budding in to the production of that movie. Also studios loved to take original stories and stick in a fictional love story.
So the Birds were a mix of real ones, animationic ones and puppets. The effects were done by Ub Iwerks who started with Walt Disney and came up with the design of Mickey Mouse.
One of my favorite older movies. The first time I'd seen this movie was on TV in black and white (because I'm old enough to remember black and white only TVs) which does a great deal towards lessening the effects of the blood. When I was around 11 or 12 I happened to watch it again, this time in living color. It was a bit more disturbing that time. Plus the scene where the old woman walks into that mans house and finds him dead with his eyes pecked out and Hitchcock does that wonderful sets of far, close Closer shots, I didn't remember seeing that scene before and it really got to me. The sound design was really great. The scene in the house when they can only hear the birds and not see what's going on is really claustrophobic. My favorite scene will always be outside the school when the crows start gathering and the camera cuts away and everytime it comes back there's more of them. And when it's quiet and the children start running...and the birds don't move until that happens. Great reaction!
So the birds rule the world now, I guess. Humans and birds just have to learn to communicate, so we'll know how to serve our new masters, right? Great reaction! If you want iconic Alfred Hitchcock movies like this and Psycho, North by Northwest (1959) is great a thrilling and funny spy story with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. But my favorite movies by Hitchcock are both taking place in a single location; Rope (1948) and Rear Window (1954), both with James Stewart. Rope, based on a play from 1929, was first planned to be filmed in one take. But then it was made in colour, and that restricted takes to 10 minutes. But Hitchcock was able to fake longer takes by hiding cuts, so it almost appears that there is only four shots in this 80 minutes long movie. Rear Window is .. just great. No spoilers. Just watch it!
"Why did Melanie go upstairs to investigate the noise she heard?"... I don't know if you are aware but Alfred Hitchcock was obsessed with his lead actress Tippy Hedren... She turned him down over and over and started dating someone onset which he despised. He got his revenge by sending her to that room upstairs and tortured her for hours till she almost passed out from exhaustion. Tippy ended up falling into an exhausted depression and took medical leave which kept her from finishing the film. Hitchcock's wife had to step in and convince Tippy to come back to finish taping.
Hi OGB, you are a gamer right... If you play "The Crew" they have Bodega Bay & school building on the huge map... If drive into town & past the school... birds will fly off the roof (very cool game easter egg)
"I think the scariest part... was the noises." What's interesting is that many of those sounds were not actually birds but electronic sound effects, designed by Bernard Herrmann, the great film score composer. He did the unforgettable music for Psycho, Vertigo, and many others.
1968's Night of the Living Dead is typically regarded as the birth of the zombie film as it now exists, but this movie from five years earlier bears quite a few similarities. Something you wouldn't think would be any threat suddenly starts inexplicably attacking people, using strength of numbers to overwhelm any defense, the people under siege make things worse by turning on each other rather than working together to solve the problem, and everything culminates in a boarded-up house under siege.
It's a common theory that Cathy is actually Mitch and Annie's daughter, with the family claiming she's Mitch's sister to avoid the scandal of a child out of wedlock. This certainly goes a long way to explaining the vast age gap between them, and why Annie stayed in Bodega Bay (and even gives a quite moving addition to her sacrificing her life to save Cathy).
@@tomloft2000 This movie really has nothing to do with the original story beyond the very basic concept of birds suddenly attacking people. Totally different setting and characters (the story is in du Maurier's native England, and ends with the main characters being the only people still alive in Europe).
THE BIRDS!! A true horror classic. I've got a cousin that is still to this day scared shitless of flocks of birds after she saw this as a kid. I love it!!
I saw this as a kid in the sixties, and yes, I completely understand how your cousin feels. Now, 50 yrs later, I still don't like birds... I just don't trust them. If only I'd known then that they were descended from dinosaurs, I coulda worked through it... cause I love dinosaurs! lol
A really fun thing about this movie is that the first half hour seems like a Bringing Up Baby-esque romantic comedy, with a goofy woman instantly being attracted to a random guy and doing a bunch of crazy stuff to see him again. And then the seagull attacks her and it starts turning into a horror movie. Not that anyone at the time was actually fooled, since it was based on a famous short story and all the marketing openly revealed the bird attacks, but Hitchcock loved this kind of playing with expectations, and raising the suspense of just when the scary stuff would start.
The actress playing Annie Hayworth is Suzanne Pleshette. She went on to star in "The Bob Newhart Show" playing Bob's wife Emily. The TV show is considered one of the top 50 TV shows of all time.
"That was the dumbest thing I've seen someone do in a movie in quite sometime!" LOL Can't argue. I saw this when I was, maybe 10? It was my first Hitchcock movie my dad let me watch. Through that whole sequence of her hearing a noise, not waking anyone else, going up alone, opening the door, going INSIDE, seeing the hole...I just kept going "No. No. What are you DOING?" I do love this movie. There is a horror to it different from what we're used to nowadays. I love it plays on our more primal fears.
I was at the store once early in the morning. It was around late winter/early spring and the trees were barren, except for one at the side of the store that was still full. I thought it was strange that it still had leaves on it, but after parking and taking a second to look I realized those weren't leaves. It was filled to capacity with squawking black birds (grackles, I'm pretty sure), and there were even more on the roof of the store, lining the building. Once I realized what I was looking at, I immediately wondered where Hitchcock was. XD This is a real classic. Gotta love Sir Alfred's work.
Some fun cast connections to other stuff you've seen here. Veronica Cartwright (Cathy) was Lambert in Alien (or as everyone probably thinks of her, "the woman who's not Ripley"), and Rod Taylor (Mitch) appeared briefly in Inglourious Basterds as Winston Churchill.
"Can I bring the lovebirds, Mitch? they haven't harmed anyone." "Oh, alright; bring them." Fun Fact: When audiences left the U.K. premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, they were greeted by the sound of screeching and flapping birds from loudspeakers hidden in the trees to scare them further. Bird Wrangling Fact: Rod Taylor claims that the seagulls were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much. Mitch Factor Fact: Mitch Zanich, owner of the Tides Restaurant at the time of shooting, told Alfred Hitchcock he could shoot there if the lead male in the movie was named after him, and Hitchcock gave him a speaking part in the movie. Hitchcock agreed: Rod Taylor's character was named Mitch Brenner, and Mitch Zanich was given a speaking part. After Melanie is attacked by a seagull, Mitch Zanich can be heard saying to Mitch Brenner, "What happened, Mitch?"
I've been to Bodega Bay. Nice little town. The gas station scene is pure Hitchcock. One of his tricks was to allow people to see something terrible happening (or about to happen) without being able to do anything about it.
I was too young to see it when it came out ...( maybe 7 or 8...) , but my older sister told me about it. For a while in the 70s, that schoolhouse was up for sale...& I remember my father ( a realtor ) had a listing for it. It's a little bookstore or art gallery the last time I drove past it. It's actually several miles from Bodega Bay....but edited in to look like it's just up the street.
This film for me has a kind of poetic expressionistic view of human relationships. It starts off almost like a screwball comedy with a guy and girl always conflicting with each other because they're intensely attracted to one another, but in Hitchcock's worldview this is an illusion to repress life's scarier ordeals. The dynamic of Lydia and Melanie, in fact they both look very similar, is key to this with Mitch being each their chess piece they want to move around the board. And the birds, well, they're a catalyst for humans constantly playing games with each other and using things for advantage not for need. And by the way, Bernard Herrmann who did the music for PSYCHO was the sound consultant for all those bird sounds. There's no music in the film, but he used those various bird sounds like scary music, my favorite being while Brenner house is being attacked the second time and the lights suddenly go out, there's this bird scream sound that travels left to right that makes my shoulder blades shiver. I've got a beautiful autographed picture that Tippi Hedren who plays Melanie gave me and it's very artistic with birds she penned on the page signed For Robert Love, Tippi. She's a sweetheart and believe it or not a huge animal lover even though during that attic scene near the end because the bird handlers were launching real birds at her and one talon sliced her eye and she had to take a week off because of the trauma filming the scene caused. Great reaction and thanks for not getting annoyed with this immensely long comment.
Did u know, Alfred Hitchcock had the real birds released on purpose because Tippi Hedren rejected his sexual advances? Every chance he got her made scenes difficult for her.
@@lynetteoliva1256 , I know the gossip although that sort of trouble didn't get into full swing until Marnie although Hitchcock was always very controlling. I don't talk to her about it because it would be in very bad taste and there is lots to talk about besides her film career.
@@robertjewell9727 I just wanted to know if u were aware of it. Of course, I wouldn't expect u to bring that possibly bad time of her past up. I think she is a wonderful actress, & I'm sure she is a lovely person too.
@@lynetteoliva1256 , that she is. She's very active and lives on a wildlife refuge primarily taking care of lions and tigers, but other animal species too. I really want to get out there. I've never been.
By the way, Tippi Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith and the grandmother of actress Dakota Johnson. Melanie is not named after her mother's character in The Birds. It's a coincidence.
The ornithologist at the diner said that it is highly unlikely that species of birds come together to attack humans. Hitchcock is brilliant to let us, the viewer, decide what could possibly be the reason for the birds attacking humans. The hysterical mother at the diner made you (and most of us) believe that it all started when Melanie arrived at Bodega Bay. Even in the radio announcement in the car where the announcer said that the bird attacks were primarily at Bodega Bay would make you believe it's all because of Melanie. Or could it be because of the two lovebirds? Who knows. I've been dying to see if anyone would do a remake of this film using the CGI technology we have today. It would make such an epic movie! Great reaction Sam! I'm glad you enjoyed this Hitchcock classic! 🐦
I really hope no one produces a remake -- at least not just to show off any "improved" special effects. Special effects alone are insufficient to effective storytelling. Need proof? Just look at all the terrible movies being made with "great" special effects but a poor story with unsympathetic, cardboard characters.
Is that a young beautiful Jessica Tandy????? Check more of her out. Her n her hubby Hume Cronyn, Cocoon and Batteries not Included. Her performance in Driving Ms Daisy and Fried Green Tomatoes. Hume was fabulous in 12 Angry Men. Just to name a few. Death by bird!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
There was actually a sequel to this movie in 1994, which is really just a totally separate story that's also about birds attacking people, and everyone hated it. Tippi Hedren had a cameo, though not as Melanie, and said "I hate to think what Hitchcock would have thought of it."
The film that inspired Tippi Hedren's other classic movie: Birdemic. 😎👍 One of the most chilling scenes to me is when Hedren's character, who started out as so strong and confident being thrown into shock and just uttering "No!....No!..."
23:21 "But, oh my god! Melanie, girl, why the _hell'd_ you go in that _room?_ _Why?_ You knew there was at _least_ a _bird in_ there." Let me just say something in her defense, with regard to _that_ particular scene. See, it didn't really surprise me when the birds demonstrated their ability to smash through _windows._ Glass is not that hard to break. But the birds in _that_ room had demonstrated that, if they concentrated their efforts, they could break through the _roof._ And earlier, they had demonstrated that, if they concentrated their efforts, they could break through _doors._ All this being the case, I think it's safe to say that _any_ safeguard one puts in place for protection from these birds would've only done so _temporarily._ Birds that can break through a _roof_ can break through a _door._ All the safety provided by staying _out_ of that room was _temporary._
There was a horrible low budget ripoff of this film done, 12 years ago now, called "Birdemic: Shock and Terror". It featured bad acting, bad directing and awful low rent cgi birds. It's hilariously bad. One of the worst films of the decade. This, on the other hand, is one of Hitchcock's best films of the 60's. The amount of bird wrangling for this film is amazing in and of itself. Hopefully you still have "The Trouble with Harry" on your list. It came out in 1955, and is actress Shirley MacLaine's first movie. Hitchcock 's only out and out comedy that I can think of. But still has the thriller element of Harry being a dead body. You should probably watch Hitchcock's trailer for the Birds at some point, as it's unusual and great. Hitchcock, himself, used to present the trailers so there's that fun element as he's an amusing character in and of himself. This one and Psycho are similar in that regard as there's more of Hitchcock talking about the film than actual footage from it, in the trailer. It's novel and fun.
And the moral of the story is? Do not lock animals (birds) in cages? Guess so. A movie with no music..just the natural sounds, that makes it pretty creepy even today. My mom was there in 1973 and later told me that some people left the cinema in panic, can't imagine today with all the generic jumpscare shit and fake-foundfutage
10:44 I remind you that this movie came out in 1963. Imagine that. Compared to the other kinds of movies released at the time, imagine how much this kind of thing must have terrified people.
The mother wasn't aware of her breaking in their house. I think she recognized her as the heiress that wasn't written about in the article. Plus, she seemed to be the type who didn't think anyone was good enough for her son.
Hitchcock was a notorious tormentor of both Tippy and the birds used in filming. I love this movie, but can't help but be grossed out by his cruel & unorthodox methods of getting what he wants for a scene.
The Birds in the room with Tippi was suppose to be like the shower scene in psycho. Hitchcock lied and told Tippi that mechanical birds were to be used for the scene but on the day of shooting she found out. During this and marnie Hitchcock would not let her out of her contract and they had a very rocky relationship.
I live not too far from Bodega Bay and grew up a little farther than now. I watched this with a friend when we were about six. The next morning we rode our BMX bikes to peewee baseball. We got to the field before anyone else. There was at least a hundred crows on the field and I froze, totally freaked out. My friend had bigger balls than me and rode his bike right through them and drove them off. lol
They spoofed this movie on The Simpsons, American Dad, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, Futurama, and many other TV shows and movies. This was also the first Hitchcock movie to be released on VHS with a PG-13 rating in 1993. It's also one o several other movies that have animals attacking people including JAWS, JURASSIC PARK, JURASSIC WORLD, The Swarm, Grizzly, Piranha, Snakes On A Plane, The Shallows, Crawl, Arachnophobia, Lake Placid, Cujo, Alligator, Crocodile, Anaconda, Open Water, Day Of The Animals, Empire Of The Ants, Food Of The Gods, Monkey Shines, TREMORS, and The Killer Shrews.
This movie use to scare me as a kid. Not only did we have a fireplace, but birds use to fly in and nest lol Can I recommend the 1955 thriller/noir movie The Night of the Hunter staring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.
This movie has a surprisingly long backstory. In 1939, Hitchcock made an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn, which suffered from its star Charles Laughton throwing his weight around and is considered one of his weakest films. But despite that, for his next film he did another du Maurier adaptation with Rebecca. This time he got full creative control, resulting in one of his most beloved films that even won Best Picture, one of shockingly few Oscar wins his legendary career produced. Du Maurier's writing career also continued strong, though all her later work remained in the shadow of her masterpiece Rebecca. And in 1952 she published a short story collection which included The Birds, a huge departure from her typical realistic Gothic romance and mystery stories about all the world's birds inexplicably attacking humanity and wiping them out. Evan Hunter, who'd done some scripts for Hitchcock's anthology shows, tried his hand at writing a feature film for him by going back to an author he'd had great success with, though his script really just takes the very basic concept of du Maurier's story and builds its own characters and situation out of it. The result was another smash and one of Hitchcock's most beloved films, which together with Psycho even tends to eclipse his reputation these days and makes people regard him as a horror director rather than the more general suspense that the vast majority of his films reside in.
Carolina Nabuco claimed that Rebecca had been plagiarized by du Maurier. Frank Baker also accused her of plagiarizing his story The Birds. Baker considered court action when the movie was released but for financial reason couldn't afford to do so. Although I like much of Daphne du Maurier's work, I can't help but question how much of it was actually hers.
@@nightfall902 …I sort of know what you mean. Rebecca is almost a parody of a Brontë Sisters novel like Wuthering Heights (…complete with the ‘ghost’ story…), or like Henry James’ Turn Of The Screw, which is a parody of a Brontë Sisters novel. Feels like it’s that nexus between a steal, an homage, or maybe by now it’s a ‘genre’ with certain tropes firmly established.
The Birds (1963) interesting facts--> When audiences left the U.K. premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, they were greeted by the sound of screeching and flapping birds from loudspeakers hidden in the trees to scare them further. Alfred Hitchcock revealed on The Dick Cavett Show (1968) that 3,200 birds were trained for the movie. He said the ravens were the cleverest, and the seagulls were the most vicious. Rod Taylor claims that the seagulls were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much. Tippi Hedren was cut in the face by a bird in one of the shots. Real-life event inspiration-->The Birds film was partly inspired by the true events of a mass bird attack on the seaside town of Capitola in California on August 18, 1961, when "Capitola residents awoke to a scene that seemed straight out of a horror movie. Hordes of seabirds were dive-bombing their homes, crashing into cars, and spewing half-digested anchovies onto lawns. Alfred Hitchcock heard of this event and used it as research material for this film which was then in progress. The real cause of the birds' behavior was toxic algae but that was not known back in the 1960s.
My all time favorite Hitchcock film. You know something just clicked in my head. Wasn't the town in The Fog starring Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother, Janet Leigh named Bodega Bay too? Edit: nevermind it was Antonio Bay
The little girl with the love birds stars with Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick (1987), which I highly recommend. You may also remember her from Alien (1979). The mother is best known from Driving Miss Daisy and Fried Green Tomatoes. The schoolteacher starred on The Bob Newhart Show on CBS.
It's crazy rewatching this film knowing how Tippi Hedren went through the wringer during the production of this film. One of the mechanical crows in the phone booth scene broke the supposedly "shatterproof" glass, and shards of it hit her in the face. Additionally, the mechanical birds meant to be used for the attack scene got switched with live birds. Allegedly, she spent five days filming the scene with live birds being thrown at her and attached to her body with elastic bands. One of which almost pecked her eye out.
@@OGBReacts it gets worse with the glass. Tippi Hedren has alledged that the glass was replaced with normal glass on purpose by Hitchcock as retaliation for her not letting him sexually harass her
This film is a true classic The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright. Thank you so much OGB great reaction excellent. ☝"Is the End of the World"😱😱😱😱
Hitchcock stated that if he showed why the birds were attacking the movie would be a sci-fi, he said he directed suspense-mysteries, leave them guessing.
When my mom was younger, she was and some friends were having a sleepover and watched this. Apparently, her dad snuck outside and throw pinecones at the screen at the end of the movie. XD
Hi , saw this as a child of 7 & loved it. Totally in love with Rod Taylor ,my favorite movie b4 LOTR , was The Time Machine with Rod Taylor . Also seen every Alfred Hitchcock , i swear tv & movies as a kid, taught me a lot about humans & life in general. Opened my young eyes to how hideous some people are and how heroic some people can be(snuck into movies a lot as kid from 10 - 13 that's what we did, saw Clockwork Orange, Midnight Cowboy The Exorcist lots of graphic War movies jeeze but it was worth it✌ as always love your reaction❤
I've never liked this movie, just not much to it story wise and of course it has the overacting vibe some goofy 60ties movies had at the time. And it just not having any reasonable explanation as to why these birds were going nuts and the abrupt ending doesn't help. But it was funny with your quips at times throughout it Sam lol. I'm sure some others may have pointed out that the blond actress, Tippy Headren is Mother to Melanie Griffith and Grandmother to Dakota Johnson. TH also funny this became a big animal/wildlife advocate and started- Shambala long ago which rescues - Elephants, Lions, Tigers, and etc. from bad situations. The grey haired Mom in the movie was actress-Jessica Tandy, of- Driving Miss Daisy, Cocoon, and Fried Green Tomatoes fame. The school teacher became a well known actress- Suzanne Pleshette of Newhart fame. 😌
Good movie, good reaction (as always). Rod Taylor, who played Mitch Brenner in this was also the star of a great science fiction movie from 1960 called "The Time Machine" from the HG Wells novel. It's been remade more than once but never as well.
Cathy fell into a black hole and ended up in the future, as a space freighter pilot. Her last assignment was the Commercial Towing Vessel "Nostromo". RIP.
Birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs once ruled the world. They're just getting back. This film was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier. She also wrote Rebecca which is another great Hitchcock film.
Monkeys in the pet shop... yup. My friend's dad owned a pet shop and he had a few different kinds of monkeys, plus a Mynah bird. One ape, can't remember the exact type, was very friendly and my friend (with the help of her dad) brought it to school once for show-and-tell. --- Very different times, back then. LOL
You should react to night of the demons (1988) what a great movie and it's two sequels night of the demons 2 (1994) and night of the demons 3 (1997) there was supposed to be a 4th film but it was never made so we stuck with three
From the book of the same name by Daphne Du Maurier." Du Maurier's inspiration for the story was the sight of a farmer being attacked by a flock of gulls as he ploughed a field."
The sounds. That's it. They generate a fkn mood that rises the tension each time over and over and over. The best part. The gas station.weww!!!! Would you go to Bodega Bay and have a placid weekend????
The little girl who gets traumatized? She grew up to be the lady in Alien who gets traumatized by the chest burster in Alien. She gets her brain bent in Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and Witches of Eastwick. Lol. She is always getting the worst of things.
One of my favorite movies! I have been watching this since I was a kid in the ‘70s. To this day anytime I see a lot of birds together I automatically think of this movie. If you haven’t seen Rear Window by Hitchcock then please add it to your list of must see classics.
The scene at 10:27 freaked me out as a kid. Still does. And this clip is of Evan Hunter, the writer of the Birds explaining the original ending of the film. But was cut due to it being too expensive. th-cam.com/video/w7HgVhRmbTU/w-d-xo.html
I'm assuming Alfred Hitchcock got the idea for this film because he maybe went to St Ives in Cornwall as a boy and ate fish and chips sitting on the seafront.
you might have recognized the actor that played Cathy (Alice, Lois). it's Veronica Cartwright, and she seemed to make a career out of being in sci fi movies (Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
Great movie. You should also see Charade that came out the same year and was financially more successful than this movie. Charade is called the greatest Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made :)
I think I saw this about 25 yrs. ago. As grown as I am, I still freak out every time I see too many crows gathering on line polls and trees. It's the fact that there was no reason why the birds went crazy only adds to my paranoia.
I can see this movie being remade in a modern way with experimentation and trying to evolve birds in a way for us humans but for it to go wrong. I can see it now as a typical horror experiment with birds gone wrong. Would love to see it being remade but please hold Dwayne Johnson there are other actors out there I’m sure lol.
a true Hitchcock classic suspense thriller. Will be a little while before you look at a large group of birds on a wire without some hesitation. Not sure if you noticed Alfred Hitchcocks cameo, he liked to pop into scenes to see if anyone could notice. He had the group of dogs in the petshop scene.
I thought the old mother and the granddaughter should have escaped, leaving the lead man and woman kept in the house like a cage - just like the love birds
Although it doesn't entirely stick to the book it's based on, the ending to the film was purposely meant to be ambiguous. The book was also a political allegory for The Cold War.
But the "real" answer is based on an actual 1961 bird attack, in a town called Capitola. Multiple birds smashed into cars and buildings, and even attempted to enter homes.
Apparently, they had digested some type of fish contaminated by toxic algae that caused amnesia, disorientation and seizures.
Wow!!
Daphne du Maurier wrote the story about the birds 1952.
The Birds wasn't a book it was a short story, though it was published in a book, sure. But it was more about the people at home in the UK in WWII if it was about anything. I mean, come on, kamakazi birds, air raids, people being left to fend for themselves. Hitchcock liked Daphne's stuff.
@@dragontears ...although duMaueier hated Hitchcock's vision. She was baffled as to why the great director had distorted it as he had. The difference between the story and the film is striking, though less in the depiction of the birds' inexplicably aggressive behaviour than in the characters who confront it, and where it all happens. However, she approved Hitchcock's version of her novel "Jamaica Inn" and loved his version of "Rebecca."
@@washo2222 It might have been the studio's insistence that the story was changed. Check out the movie Hitchcock. It's about the making of Psycho. The studio was constantly budding in to the production of that movie.
Also studios loved to take original stories and stick in a fictional love story.
I love the scene where Melanie smokes a cigarette, blissfully unaware of the crows invading the playground right behind her. Creepiest thing ever.
BIG TIME!
One of my favorite scenes.
So the Birds were a mix of real ones, animationic ones and puppets. The effects were done by Ub Iwerks who started with Walt Disney and came up with the design of Mickey Mouse.
One of my favorite older movies. The first time I'd seen this movie was on TV in black and white (because I'm old enough to remember black and white only TVs) which does a great deal towards lessening the effects of the blood. When I was around 11 or 12 I happened to watch it again, this time in living color. It was a bit more disturbing that time. Plus the scene where the old woman walks into that mans house and finds him dead with his eyes pecked out and Hitchcock does that wonderful sets of far, close Closer shots, I didn't remember seeing that scene before and it really got to me. The sound design was really great. The scene in the house when they can only hear the birds and not see what's going on is really claustrophobic. My favorite scene will always be outside the school when the crows start gathering and the camera cuts away and everytime it comes back there's more of them. And when it's quiet and the children start running...and the birds don't move until that happens. Great reaction!
So the birds rule the world now, I guess.
Humans and birds just have to learn to communicate, so we'll know how to serve our new masters, right?
Great reaction!
If you want iconic Alfred Hitchcock movies like this and Psycho, North by Northwest (1959) is great a thrilling and funny spy story with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.
But my favorite movies by Hitchcock are both taking place in a single location; Rope (1948) and Rear Window (1954), both with James Stewart.
Rope, based on a play from 1929, was first planned to be filmed in one take. But then it was made in colour, and that restricted takes to 10 minutes. But Hitchcock was able to fake longer takes by hiding cuts, so it almost appears that there is only four shots in this 80 minutes long movie.
Rear Window is .. just great. No spoilers. Just watch it!
Now you're ready to watch Mel Brooks' masterpiece "High Anxiety". I think it's his best film, an homage to Alfred Hitchcock.
Definitely watch High anxiety now that you’ve seen other Hitchcock movies, in particular Psycho, but also Rear Window and North By Northwest.
It is my favorite Mel Brooks movie!
I don't know why but the scene of her driving that lil boat by herself in her fancy fur coat always cracks me up.. lmao!
"Why did Melanie go upstairs to investigate the noise she heard?"... I don't know if you are aware but Alfred Hitchcock was obsessed with his lead actress Tippy Hedren... She turned him down over and over and started dating someone onset which he despised. He got his revenge by sending her to that room upstairs and tortured her for hours till she almost passed out from exhaustion. Tippy ended up falling into an exhausted depression and took medical leave which kept her from finishing the film. Hitchcock's wife had to step in and convince Tippy to come back to finish taping.
Hi OGB, you are a gamer right...
If you play "The Crew" they have Bodega Bay & school building on the huge map...
If drive into town & past the school... birds will fly off the roof (very cool game easter egg)
This was beyond my favorite movie of Hitchcock
the birds know all lol
New research estimates there are between 50 billion and 430 billion birds on Earth.
The gap between the two numbers is INSANE
@@OGBReacts either way - they could kick our arses lol x x
@@YourBeingParanoid oh 100%
Really enjoy you enjoying these films.
So glad!! Thanks so much!
As always, great reaction commentary; I always look forward to your posts.
(And I love your blouse! Very pretty.)
You're too kind!! Thanks so much!
Thanks!
Ahhhh thank you!! So kind of you!
Try " Creepshow " , " Creepshow 2 " , " CUJO " .
"I think the scariest part... was the noises." What's interesting is that many of those sounds were not actually birds but electronic sound effects, designed by Bernard Herrmann, the great film score composer. He did the unforgettable music for Psycho, Vertigo, and many others.
1968's Night of the Living Dead is typically regarded as the birth of the zombie film as it now exists, but this movie from five years earlier bears quite a few similarities. Something you wouldn't think would be any threat suddenly starts inexplicably attacking people, using strength of numbers to overwhelm any defense, the people under siege make things worse by turning on each other rather than working together to solve the problem, and everything culminates in a boarded-up house under siege.
It's a common theory that Cathy is actually Mitch and Annie's daughter, with the family claiming she's Mitch's sister to avoid the scandal of a child out of wedlock. This certainly goes a long way to explaining the vast age gap between them, and why Annie stayed in Bodega Bay (and even gives a quite moving addition to her sacrificing her life to save Cathy).
Ahhhh that can make sense
i've never read the original story so I don't know if it hints at that. but chronologically it could work.
@@tomloft2000 This movie really has nothing to do with the original story beyond the very basic concept of birds suddenly attacking people. Totally different setting and characters (the story is in du Maurier's native England, and ends with the main characters being the only people still alive in Europe).
I’ve never heard that theory but I like it and it will be my reality from now on when watching it .
My oldest brother is 22 years older than me. It happens sometimes.
THE BIRDS!! A true horror classic. I've got a cousin that is still to this day scared shitless of flocks of birds after she saw this as a kid. I love it!!
I saw this as a kid in the sixties, and yes, I completely understand how your cousin feels. Now, 50 yrs later, I still don't like birds... I just don't trust them. If only I'd known then that they were descended from dinosaurs, I coulda worked through it... cause I love dinosaurs! lol
I still have a big issue with sea gulls thanks to this
A really fun thing about this movie is that the first half hour seems like a Bringing Up Baby-esque romantic comedy, with a goofy woman instantly being attracted to a random guy and doing a bunch of crazy stuff to see him again. And then the seagull attacks her and it starts turning into a horror movie. Not that anyone at the time was actually fooled, since it was based on a famous short story and all the marketing openly revealed the bird attacks, but Hitchcock loved this kind of playing with expectations, and raising the suspense of just when the scary stuff would start.
Hitchcock’s slow build up is one of the things that made his movies so brilliant.
Which is why Alfred Hitchcock is still known as one of the best directors of all time! 😊
The actress playing Annie Hayworth is Suzanne Pleshette. She went on to star in "The Bob Newhart Show" playing Bob's wife Emily. The TV show is considered one of the top 50 TV shows of all time.
I highly recommend checking out Shadow Of A Doubt from 1943! It’s Hitchcock’s favorite film that he directed!
"That was the dumbest thing I've seen someone do in a movie in quite sometime!" LOL Can't argue. I saw this when I was, maybe 10? It was my first Hitchcock movie my dad let me watch. Through that whole sequence of her hearing a noise, not waking anyone else, going up alone, opening the door, going INSIDE, seeing the hole...I just kept going "No. No. What are you DOING?" I do love this movie. There is a horror to it different from what we're used to nowadays. I love it plays on our more primal fears.
adid you ever see the video Hell No! The sensible horror film? it pokes fun of all of this.
I was at the store once early in the morning. It was around late winter/early spring and the trees were barren, except for one at the side of the store that was still full. I thought it was strange that it still had leaves on it, but after parking and taking a second to look I realized those weren't leaves. It was filled to capacity with squawking black birds (grackles, I'm pretty sure), and there were even more on the roof of the store, lining the building. Once I realized what I was looking at, I immediately wondered where Hitchcock was. XD
This is a real classic. Gotta love Sir Alfred's work.
I have to recommend another Du Maurier adaptation, Nic Roeg's _Don't Look Now,_ another of the creepiest movies ever made.
Some fun cast connections to other stuff you've seen here. Veronica Cartwright (Cathy) was Lambert in Alien (or as everyone probably thinks of her, "the woman who's not Ripley"), and Rod Taylor (Mitch) appeared briefly in Inglourious Basterds as Winston Churchill.
My favorite cast member in this was Suzanne Pleshette. Loved her since I was a kid watching The Bob Newhart Show.
I prefer to remember Rod Taylor as "George, the inventor chap," in "The Time Machine" (1960).
And she’s Angela Cartwright’s sister, AKA Penny from the original Lost in Space and was in The Sound of Music.
Rod Taylor was also the voice of Pongo in 101 Dalmatians.
Veronica Cartwright who played the sister Cathy, 16 years later played Lambert in Alien.
Moral of the story: Never use herring-scented hairspray; it can lead to all kinds of trouble.
"Can I bring the lovebirds, Mitch? they haven't harmed anyone."
"Oh, alright; bring them."
Fun Fact: When audiences left the U.K. premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, they were greeted by the sound of screeching and flapping birds from loudspeakers hidden in the trees to scare them further.
Bird Wrangling Fact: Rod Taylor claims that the seagulls were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much.
Mitch Factor Fact: Mitch Zanich, owner of the Tides Restaurant at the time of shooting, told Alfred Hitchcock he could shoot there if the lead male in the movie was named after him, and Hitchcock gave him a speaking part in the movie. Hitchcock agreed: Rod Taylor's character was named Mitch Brenner, and Mitch Zanich was given a speaking part. After Melanie is attacked by a seagull, Mitch Zanich can be heard saying to Mitch Brenner, "What happened, Mitch?"
Re: Your fun fact about the loudspeakers, that sounds like something William Castle would have done.
I've been to Bodega Bay. Nice little town.
The gas station scene is pure Hitchcock. One of his tricks was to allow people to see something terrible happening (or about to happen) without being able to do anything about it.
I had no idea it was a real place until these comments!
I was too young to see it when it came out ...( maybe 7 or 8...) , but my older sister told me about it. For a while in the 70s, that schoolhouse was up for sale...& I remember my father ( a realtor ) had a listing for it. It's a little bookstore or art gallery the last time I drove past it. It's actually several miles from Bodega Bay....but edited in to look like it's just up the street.
This film for me has a kind of poetic expressionistic view of human relationships. It starts off almost like a screwball comedy with a guy and girl always conflicting with each other because they're intensely attracted to one another, but in Hitchcock's worldview this is an illusion to repress life's scarier ordeals. The dynamic of Lydia and Melanie, in fact they both look very similar, is key to this with Mitch being each their chess piece they want to move around the board. And the birds, well, they're a catalyst for humans constantly playing games with each other and using things for advantage not for need. And by the way, Bernard Herrmann who did the music for PSYCHO was the sound consultant for all those bird sounds. There's no music in the film, but he used those various bird sounds like scary music, my favorite being while Brenner house is being attacked the second time and the lights suddenly go out, there's this bird scream sound that travels left to right that makes my shoulder blades shiver. I've got a beautiful autographed picture that Tippi Hedren who plays Melanie gave me and it's very artistic with birds she penned on the page signed For Robert Love, Tippi. She's a sweetheart and believe it or not a huge animal lover even though during that attic scene near the end because the bird handlers were launching real birds at her and one talon sliced her eye and she had to take a week off because of the trauma filming the scene caused. Great reaction and thanks for not getting annoyed with this immensely long comment.
Did u know, Alfred Hitchcock had the real birds released on purpose because Tippi Hedren rejected his sexual advances? Every chance he got her made scenes difficult for her.
@@lynetteoliva1256 , I know the gossip although that sort of trouble didn't get into full swing until Marnie although Hitchcock was always very controlling. I don't talk to her about it because it would be in very bad taste and there is lots to talk about besides her film career.
@@robertjewell9727 I just wanted to know if u were aware of it. Of course, I wouldn't expect u to bring that possibly bad time of her past up. I think she is a wonderful actress, & I'm sure she is a lovely person too.
@@lynetteoliva1256 , that she is. She's very active and lives on a wildlife refuge primarily taking care of lions and tigers, but other animal species too. I really want to get out there. I've never been.
By the way, Tippi Hedren is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith and the grandmother of actress Dakota Johnson. Melanie is not named after her mother's character in The Birds. It's a coincidence.
This movie ranked at #96 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo, cool reaction as always Sam, take care and you have a great weekend sweetie 🥰
@@justindenney-hall5875 That's cool, you have a great weekend
The ornithologist at the diner said that it is highly unlikely that species of birds come together to attack humans. Hitchcock is brilliant to let us, the viewer, decide what could possibly be the reason for the birds attacking humans. The hysterical mother at the diner made you (and most of us) believe that it all started when Melanie arrived at Bodega Bay. Even in the radio announcement in the car where the announcer said that the bird attacks were primarily at Bodega Bay would make you believe it's all because of Melanie. Or could it be because of the two lovebirds?
Who knows. I've been dying to see if anyone would do a remake of this film using the CGI technology we have today. It would make such an epic movie! Great reaction Sam! I'm glad you enjoyed this Hitchcock classic! 🐦
We got Birdemic.
@@the-NightStar What shock! What terror!
RiffTrax version is better.
I really hope no one produces a remake -- at least not just to show off any "improved" special effects. Special effects alone are insufficient to effective storytelling. Need proof? Just look at all the terrible movies being made with "great" special effects but a poor story with unsympathetic, cardboard characters.
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Is that a young beautiful Jessica Tandy?????
Check more of her out. Her n her hubby Hume Cronyn, Cocoon and Batteries not Included. Her performance in Driving Ms Daisy and Fried Green Tomatoes.
Hume was fabulous in 12 Angry Men. Just to name a few.
Death by bird!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
There was actually a sequel to this movie in 1994, which is really just a totally separate story that's also about birds attacking people, and everyone hated it. Tippi Hedren had a cameo, though not as Melanie, and said "I hate to think what Hitchcock would have thought of it."
The film that inspired Tippi Hedren's other classic movie: Birdemic. 😎👍
One of the most chilling scenes to me is when Hedren's character, who started out as so strong and confident being thrown into shock and just uttering "No!....No!..."
I love Alfred Hitchcock films 🎥 like all of them
But this one is my favorite 😻 and I watch it often!
23:21 "But, oh my god! Melanie, girl, why the _hell'd_ you go in that _room?_ _Why?_ You knew there was at _least_ a _bird in_ there."
Let me just say something in her defense, with regard to _that_ particular scene. See, it didn't really surprise me when the birds demonstrated their ability to smash through _windows._ Glass is not that hard to break. But the birds in _that_ room had demonstrated that, if they concentrated their efforts, they could break through the _roof._ And earlier, they had demonstrated that, if they concentrated their efforts, they could break through _doors._ All this being the case, I think it's safe to say that _any_ safeguard one puts in place for protection from these birds would've only done so _temporarily._
Birds that can break through a _roof_ can break through a _door._ All the safety provided by staying _out_ of that room was _temporary._
There was a horrible low budget ripoff of this film done, 12 years ago now, called "Birdemic: Shock and Terror". It featured bad acting, bad directing and awful low rent cgi birds. It's hilariously bad. One of the worst films of the decade. This, on the other hand, is one of Hitchcock's best films of the 60's. The amount of bird wrangling for this film is amazing in and of itself. Hopefully you still have "The Trouble with Harry" on your list. It came out in 1955, and is actress Shirley MacLaine's first movie. Hitchcock 's only out and out comedy that I can think of. But still has the thriller element of Harry being a dead body. You should probably watch Hitchcock's trailer for the Birds at some point, as it's unusual and great. Hitchcock, himself, used to present the trailers so there's that fun element as he's an amusing character in and of himself. This one and Psycho are similar in that regard as there's more of Hitchcock talking about the film than actual footage from it, in the trailer. It's novel and fun.
I'm really starting to enjoy your reaction of when films decide to end.
And the moral of the story is? Do not lock animals (birds) in cages? Guess so.
A movie with no music..just the natural sounds, that makes it pretty creepy even today. My mom was there in 1973 and later told me that some people left the cinema in panic, can't imagine today with all the generic jumpscare shit and fake-foundfutage
10:44 I remind you that this movie came out in 1963. Imagine that. Compared to the other kinds of movies released at the time, imagine how much this kind of thing must have terrified people.
Right!! Cleopatra, Move Over Darling, Charade, Hud, and THIS!!!
“Why is mama so suspicious of her immediately?”
I mean, she did break into their house. 😂
Okay, fair enough 😂
The mother wasn't aware of her breaking in their house. I think she recognized her as the heiress that wasn't written about in the article. Plus, she seemed to be the type who didn't think anyone was good enough for her son.
Hitchcock was a notorious tormentor of both Tippy and the birds used in filming. I love this movie, but can't help but be grossed out by his cruel & unorthodox methods of getting what he wants for a scene.
That's so upsetting!
Hope you recognized Jessica Tandy from "Fried Green Tomatoes."
The Birds in the room with Tippi was suppose to be like the shower scene in psycho. Hitchcock lied and told Tippi that mechanical birds were to be used for the scene but on the day of shooting she found out. During this and marnie Hitchcock would not let her out of her contract and they had a very rocky relationship.
Jeeeeez :/
Let's just say Hitchcock was very unprofessional towards Tippi.
I live not too far from Bodega Bay and grew up a little farther than now. I watched this with a friend when we were about six. The next morning we rode our BMX bikes to peewee baseball. We got to the field before anyone else. There was at least a hundred crows on the field and I froze, totally freaked out. My friend had bigger balls than me and rode his bike right through them and drove them off. lol
Little Cathy was later in Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. She's a scream queen. I even met her once, Nice woman.
Alfred Hitchcock was a master of his craft, i wouldnt call this Horror, but Suspense, because that was what Hitchcock was all about.
They spoofed this movie on The Simpsons, American Dad, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, Futurama, and many other TV shows and movies.
This was also the first Hitchcock movie to be released on VHS with a PG-13 rating in 1993. It's also one o several other movies that have animals attacking people including JAWS, JURASSIC PARK, JURASSIC WORLD, The Swarm, Grizzly, Piranha, Snakes On A Plane, The Shallows, Crawl, Arachnophobia, Lake Placid, Cujo, Alligator, Crocodile, Anaconda, Open Water, Day Of The Animals, Empire Of The Ants, Food Of The Gods, Monkey Shines, TREMORS, and The Killer Shrews.
"I need the biggest seed bell you have. No, that's too big."
This movie use to scare me as a kid. Not only did we have a fireplace, but birds use to fly in and nest lol
Can I recommend the 1955 thriller/noir movie The Night of the Hunter staring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.
The Bird movie does not make any sense. Because it doesn’t explain why the birds attack on people and what drove them mad
I think that’s what makes it interesting! There is no concrete reason and it’s all up to interpretation. I don’t mind that in a movie.
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
This movie has a surprisingly long backstory. In 1939, Hitchcock made an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn, which suffered from its star Charles Laughton throwing his weight around and is considered one of his weakest films. But despite that, for his next film he did another du Maurier adaptation with Rebecca. This time he got full creative control, resulting in one of his most beloved films that even won Best Picture, one of shockingly few Oscar wins his legendary career produced.
Du Maurier's writing career also continued strong, though all her later work remained in the shadow of her masterpiece Rebecca. And in 1952 she published a short story collection which included The Birds, a huge departure from her typical realistic Gothic romance and mystery stories about all the world's birds inexplicably attacking humanity and wiping them out. Evan Hunter, who'd done some scripts for Hitchcock's anthology shows, tried his hand at writing a feature film for him by going back to an author he'd had great success with, though his script really just takes the very basic concept of du Maurier's story and builds its own characters and situation out of it. The result was another smash and one of Hitchcock's most beloved films, which together with Psycho even tends to eclipse his reputation these days and makes people regard him as a horror director rather than the more general suspense that the vast majority of his films reside in.
Carolina Nabuco claimed that Rebecca had been plagiarized by du Maurier. Frank Baker also accused her of plagiarizing his story The Birds. Baker considered court action when the movie was released but for financial reason couldn't afford to do so. Although I like much of Daphne du Maurier's work, I can't help but question how much of it was actually hers.
@@nightfall902 …I sort of know what you mean. Rebecca is almost a parody of a Brontë Sisters novel like Wuthering Heights (…complete with the ‘ghost’ story…), or like Henry James’ Turn Of The Screw, which is a parody of a Brontë Sisters novel. Feels like it’s that nexus between a steal, an homage, or maybe by now it’s a ‘genre’ with certain tropes firmly established.
Hitch has made birds and taking showers scary. He was a genius.
This movie scared the sh** out of me as a young child!
The Birds (1963) interesting facts--> When audiences left the U.K. premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, they were greeted by the sound of screeching and flapping birds from loudspeakers hidden in the trees to scare them further. Alfred Hitchcock revealed on The Dick Cavett Show (1968) that 3,200 birds were trained for the movie. He said the ravens were the cleverest, and the seagulls were the most vicious. Rod Taylor claims that the seagulls were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much. Tippi Hedren was cut in the face by a bird in one of the shots. Real-life event inspiration-->The Birds film was partly inspired by the true events of a mass bird attack on the seaside town of Capitola in California on August 18, 1961, when "Capitola residents awoke to a scene that seemed straight out of a horror movie. Hordes of seabirds were dive-bombing their homes, crashing into cars, and spewing half-digested anchovies onto lawns. Alfred Hitchcock heard of this event and used it as research material for this film which was then in progress. The real cause of the birds' behavior was toxic algae but that was not known back in the 1960s.
My all time favorite Hitchcock film.
You know something just clicked in my head. Wasn't the town in The Fog starring Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother, Janet Leigh named Bodega Bay too?
Edit: nevermind it was Antonio Bay
I’m pretty sure Bodega Bay is mentioned in the Fog though.
@15:42 - One of the best "Karen" slaps on film.
The little girl with the love birds stars with Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick (1987), which I highly recommend. You may also remember her from Alien (1979). The mother is best known from Driving Miss Daisy and Fried Green Tomatoes. The schoolteacher starred on The Bob Newhart Show on CBS.
“BIRD POLICE!!” 😂🤣🤣 idk why that part killed me
🤣🤣🤣
Good Morning Good Evening, Good Afternoon!!!
I've never seen The Birds so I'm watching it thru ur eyes!!!! Love u girl. Excited. ❣️
It's crazy rewatching this film knowing how Tippi Hedren went through the wringer during the production of this film.
One of the mechanical crows in the phone booth scene broke the supposedly "shatterproof" glass, and shards of it hit her in the face.
Additionally, the mechanical birds meant to be used for the attack scene got switched with live birds.
Allegedly, she spent five days filming the scene with live birds being thrown at her and attached to her body with elastic bands. One of which almost pecked her eye out.
Good lord 😫😫
The animals were also all badly treated...i love this film, but Hitchcock was kind of gross
@@bethanythatsme No :( that’s so sad. I had a feeling :(
@@OGBReacts it gets worse with the glass.
Tippi Hedren has alledged that the glass was replaced with normal glass on purpose by Hitchcock as retaliation for her not letting him sexually harass her
@@rickypedia999 Oh that’s good 🙃🙃🙃 wow
This film is a true classic The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright. Thank you so much OGB great reaction excellent. ☝"Is the End of the World"😱😱😱😱
Hitchcock stated that if he showed why the birds were attacking the movie would be a sci-fi, he said he directed suspense-mysteries, leave them guessing.
This movie was more Horror in my opinion . Arguably his only horror movie. This and “Psycho “ birds is even more horror.
When my mom was younger, she was and some friends were having a sleepover and watched this. Apparently, her dad snuck outside and throw pinecones at the screen at the end of the movie. XD
Oh my god 🤣
A very good reaction to this classic
You’ll enjoy this comedy sketch based on The Birds:
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Hi , saw this as a child of 7 & loved it. Totally in love with Rod Taylor ,my favorite movie b4 LOTR , was The Time Machine with Rod Taylor . Also seen every Alfred Hitchcock , i swear tv & movies as a kid, taught me a lot about humans & life in general. Opened my young eyes to how hideous some people are and how heroic some people can be(snuck into movies a lot as kid from 10 - 13 that's what we did, saw Clockwork Orange, Midnight Cowboy The Exorcist lots of graphic War movies jeeze but it was worth it✌ as always love your reaction❤
I've never liked this movie, just not much to it story wise and of course it has the overacting vibe some goofy 60ties movies had at the time. And it just not having any reasonable explanation as to why these birds were going nuts and the abrupt ending doesn't help. But it was funny with your quips at times throughout it Sam lol.
I'm sure some others may have pointed out that the blond actress, Tippy Headren is Mother to Melanie Griffith and Grandmother to Dakota Johnson. TH also funny this became a big animal/wildlife advocate and started- Shambala long ago which rescues - Elephants, Lions, Tigers, and etc. from bad situations.
The grey haired Mom in the movie was actress-Jessica Tandy, of- Driving Miss Daisy, Cocoon, and Fried Green Tomatoes fame. The school teacher became a well known actress- Suzanne Pleshette of Newhart fame. 😌
Good movie, good reaction (as always).
Rod Taylor, who played Mitch Brenner in this was also the star of a great science fiction movie from 1960 called "The Time Machine" from the HG Wells novel. It's been remade more than once but never as well.
Cathy fell into a black hole and ended up in the future, as a space freighter pilot. Her last assignment was the Commercial Towing Vessel "Nostromo". RIP.
Birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs once ruled the world. They're just getting back. This film was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier. She also wrote Rebecca which is another great Hitchcock film.
Monkeys in the pet shop... yup. My friend's dad owned a pet shop and he had a few different kinds of monkeys, plus a Mynah bird. One ape, can't remember the exact type, was very friendly and my friend (with the help of her dad) brought it to school once for show-and-tell. --- Very different times, back then. LOL
Check out Alfred Hitchock's "The Trouble With Harry". A group of crows is a Murder of Crows.
And Jessica Tandy was the celebrated doyenne of Broadway during this time, so ppl were surprised Hitchcock was able to get her for his movie 🍿🍿
You should react to night of the demons (1988) what a great movie and it's two sequels night of the demons 2 (1994) and night of the demons 3 (1997) there was supposed to be a 4th film but it was never made so we stuck with three
From the book of the same name by Daphne Du Maurier." Du Maurier's inspiration for the story was the sight of a farmer being attacked by a flock of gulls as he ploughed a field."
The sounds. That's it. They generate a fkn mood that rises the tension each time over and over and over.
The best part. The gas station.weww!!!!
Would you go to Bodega Bay and have a placid weekend????
The little girl who gets traumatized? She grew up to be the lady in Alien who gets traumatized by the chest burster in Alien. She gets her brain bent in Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and Witches of Eastwick. Lol. She is always getting the worst of things.
One of my favorite movies! I have been watching this since I was a kid in the ‘70s. To this day anytime I see a lot of birds together I automatically think of this movie. If you haven’t seen Rear Window by Hitchcock then please add it to your list of must see classics.
The scene at 10:27 freaked me out as a kid.
Still does.
And this clip is of Evan Hunter, the writer of the Birds explaining the original ending of the film.
But was cut due to it being too expensive.
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Jessica Tandy is also in this movie . She played the part of the older movie . She was also in : Driving Miss Daisy - Cocoon - ". And a few others.
It's the end of the world! To this day, congregations of birds give me anxiety! Great reaction!
I'm assuming Alfred Hitchcock got the idea for this film because he maybe went to St Ives in Cornwall as a boy and ate fish and chips sitting on the seafront.
you might have recognized the actor that played Cathy (Alice, Lois). it's Veronica Cartwright, and she seemed to make a career out of being in sci fi movies (Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
You should do a reaction to the classic B movie when animals attacks is titled Kingdom Of The Spiders starring the great William Shatner.
Tippi Hedren, who played Melanie, is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith.
Great movie. You should also see Charade that came out the same year and was financially more successful than this movie. Charade is called the greatest Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made :)
I think I saw this about 25 yrs. ago. As grown as I am, I still freak out every time I see too many crows gathering on line polls and trees.
It's the fact that there was no reason why the birds went crazy only adds to my paranoia.
I can see this movie being remade in a modern way with experimentation and trying to evolve birds in a way for us humans but for it to go wrong. I can see it now as a typical horror experiment with birds gone wrong. Would love to see it being remade but please hold Dwayne Johnson there are other actors out there I’m sure lol.
a true Hitchcock classic suspense thriller. Will be a little while before you look at a large group of birds on a wire without some hesitation. Not sure if you noticed Alfred Hitchcocks cameo, he liked to pop into scenes to see if anyone could notice. He had the group of dogs in the petshop scene.
The bird also thinks gas ⛽ is very expensive !!!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I wish more reactors would do this film.
I was going to watch the full reaction on Patreon but I decided I didn’t need the nightmares 😉🦅
HA! Fair!
I thought the old mother and the granddaughter should have escaped, leaving the lead man and woman kept in the house like a cage - just like the love birds