Review #237: The Birds (1963)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #91: The Birds (1963) So, I really didn't know what to expect with this movie. On the one hand, it's held up by many as one of the horror classics that scared them to death as a child. On the other hand, there's been a lot of those so far this month, and most of them have been extremely unimpressive. On the third hand, this movie is TWO HOURS LONG and I have a hard time believing that it needed to be. On the fourth hand, it wasn't that bad. The Birds is a film about Melanie, a "modern rich socialite" as IMDB puts it, who runs into a lawyer, Mitch, and the two sort of flirt-prank each other and it ends up with Melanie driving out to Mitch's lake house in a seaside town called Bodega Bay. While there, the local birds suddenly start acting erratically- first by ramming into Melanie while she's out boating, to attacking kids at a party, to eventually storming...