The Birds
...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!
...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!
Horror
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1963
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Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
119 min
Release date:
28 Mar 1963
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$2,500,000
Revenue:
$11,500,000
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 7 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Drawing from the relatively invisible literary talents of Daphne DuMaurier and Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock has fashioned a major work of cinematic art, and "cinematic" is the operative term here, not "literary" or "sociological."
– Andrew Sarris,
Village Voice,
18 Jan 2013
fresh:
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
9 Oct 2012
fresh:
Hitch's much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films -- a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
9 Oct 2012
rotten:
Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
21 Sep 2007
fresh:
Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film (1963), and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
21 Sep 2007