I've been watching "The Birds" since I was too young to even remember, and when I was moving across countries once I even caught the sequel on television (which is just gruesome and lacking the suspense of this). However "The Birds" has always seemed slightly uneven to me, as if the premise itself is so absurd that I have a hard time taking the film entirely seriously.
In my opinion the best Hitchcock films are "North by Northwest," "The 39 Steps," "The Lady Vanishes," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Vertigo," "Rear Window" and of course my favorite horror film of all-time, "Psycho." "The Birds" is a good film and very well-made but because its content is so silly in nature you may find yourself having a hard time taking it all as seriously as Hitch expects us to.
So overall, it is a fine movie, but not one of the Master of Suspense's greatest.
In my opinion the best Hitchcock films are "North by Northwest," "The 39 Steps," "The Lady Vanishes," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Vertigo," "Rear Window" and of course my favorite horror film of all-time, "Psycho." "The Birds" is a good film and very well-made but because its content is so silly in nature you may find yourself having a hard time taking it all as seriously as Hitch expects us to.
So overall, it is a fine movie, but not one of the Master of Suspense's greatest.