Unique Movie

Rating: 7/10 (10 November 2001)

I saw this movie on TV fifteen to twenty years ago and just saw it again recently. "The Birds" seemed like a really scary movie the first time I saw it as a kid. Watching it now, it really does not seem that scary, most episodes of the X-Files are more scary.
This is the first of two Hitchcock movies with Tippi Hedren, the other being "Marnie". Hedren does a good job here, as does Rod Taylor.

The lack of a musical score is unusual, especially for a Hitchcock movie. Instead, Hitchcock uses a lot of bird sound effects.
I don't think this is one of Hitchcock's better movies, but it is still good and unique. On my recent viewing of the movie, I was shocked to see how the last scene turned out, I really didn't expect the movie to end the way it did, I thought it was going to continue and give the viewer an explanation to the birds behaviour.
I gave this movie a 7 out of 10.