The birds(1963) in my opinion is way down on the Hitchcock-o-scale it is a fairly boring movie as nothing really happens for the first forty minutes and we are stuck watching the mc muffin or magufin or whatever. This primarily revolves around the love story of Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hendren) and Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) and there love affair which is as instantaneous as it is ridicules’ mean she just shows up to his house with a couple of birds and instead of filing a restraining order like any logical thinking human being he invites her to stay for the weekend as to call her bluff or maybe he just is a hopeless romantic who just can’t say no to a stalker. At any rate it is a very uninteresting plot until the birds start attacking which is when it gets seriously funny as the birds are ruthless with who they go after man, women or child get the hell out of the way before the beck through your jugular these birds don’t take crap. Apart from about two worthwhile bird attack scenes this film is mind numbing. There is no music soundtrack which was done for dramatic effect it just makes the film more boring as you have to put up with all these awkward silences and the questionable acting as almost all of Melanie's dialog sounds so false, she sounds suppressed about every word coming out of her mouth like a child learning to talk for the first time. The film is fairly dramatic in the fact that it has some pretty creepy scenes when the birds finally start attacking the scene where Melanie is in the school yard and the only thing we can here is there creepy song the children are singing which seems to go on forever drifting through the air and then all the birds converge on the children’s clinging frame and the tension is so thick you could cut it with a knife i mean you know its all about to kick off and the tension just keeps building and building and building until a bird eats a girls face and blows up a guy in a car ho just wants a cigarette actually his death was more self inflicted he kind of blew himself up and that was the only on-screen death so the birds death count currently stands at zero which proves the fact that this is a fairly uneventful film hardly deserving the title of a thriller however don’t let these birds put you off Hitchcock thrillers for good my next blog is going to be about his greatest work yet the chilling psycho!
