Quite slow but still enjoyable horror drama

Rating: 9/10 (1 August 2006)

If you watch this on DVD or from digital television it doesn't look like as if it has aged at all. It's really an achievement in the 60's to make such a good looking movie with brilliant special effects.
This movie is more of a drama than a horror movie, but still it's pretty enjoyable even today. Hitchcock puts deepness into characters and it makes them believable but it also makes this movie pretty slow because of the long lasting dialogues. Another thing to notice is that there's no soundtrack, just the ambient sounds. It's good in a way and it actually suits the film really well.
If they remaked this movie they could not use birds in that way because there's a law to prohibit cruelty to animals. They got the birds to act that way because they added alcohol to the wheat which the birds ate.