The Birds

A scary story (and film) for Halloween! I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) again last night, and loved it perhaps more than ever, one of his very best films (well, let's say, in the top ten, because there are a lot of them, of course). It is based in part on a short story of the same name by D......more

"The sky was hard and leaden, and the brown hills that had gleamed in the sun the day before looked dark and bare. The east wind, like a razor, stripped the trees, and the leaves, crackling and dry, shivered and scattered with the wind’s blast… Black winter had descended in a single night." Indeed, m......more

Birds about to cook up something. I absolutely loved reading Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" and finished it in one sitting. Actually, it is a short story but is really not that short either. Birds lead their attack. Even though the cover of the book shown here has a shot from Alfred Hitchcock's film w......more

A short, excellent book! Yes. Birds do start attacking people, but the real horror is linking nature and destruction around real war and sieges. A truly unsettling experience. 4/5......more

"In the distance he could see the clay hills, white and clean against the heavy pallor of the sky. Something black rose from behind them, like a smudge at first, then widening, becoming deeper. The smudge became a cloud; and the cloud divided again into five other clouds, spreading north, east, sout......more