A 1963 Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (28 October 2001)

I didn't see the Birds until it made it to TV some years later but at the time the children fleeing the schoolhouse left me physically shaking in horror. Years later I had the opportunity to spend the night at the schoolhouse which was and still is one of my best memories to date. Hitch's plodding drama may seem slow by todays standards but I feel that is one of the very reasons the attacks are so delightful! You get caught up in this slow moving story and whamo the birds attack out of nowhere. One wonders why after all these years no one has ever been able to recreate such a great film. It's easy to imagine in these turbulent times that evil can come at any moment from the very things we take for granted and do not normally fear. I am sure that is what drew Sir Alfred to this material in the first place. Pass the popcorn!