Birds attack people. There's not much to it.

Rating: 8/10 (6 September 2015)

The Birds is a movie about birds that go insane and start attacking people. Obviously there's character development but the main thing here is the birds. James Rolfe said that The Birds is kind of like Jaws. It has the plot of a B movie but it was so good that's now a big budget "A" movie. The plot apart from the birds is that a young rich playgirl named Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) follows a lawyer named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) to a remote town in California. The film at first takes awhile with delivering the bird attacks but I think it does a good job in keeping us on our toes. That's Alfred Hitchcock for you. The bird effects themselves are often quite cheesy looking but it still keeps up the suspense. Not my favorite Hitchcock film but it's good enough for an 8 star rating.