Except that be predictable to have a predator bird as the villains, extremely uncreative and utterly unchallenging.
The whole point of The Birds is the unknown and that is something humans fear the most.
A explanation for why exactly peaceful birds are intentionally attacking and killing the humans is never shown in the movie.
That's utterly terrifying that for no known reason peaceful birds utterly change and start attacking humans and killing them.
That is a thundstorm that starts and has 0 warning. Not knowing the reasons for why bad things happen is pretty terrifying along with a group birds that won't stop killing humans.
To the op this movie is vastly superior than most of the garbage movies which that channel makes.
This brilliant movie inspired someone trying to create another same movie Birdemic Shock and Terror which utterly failed, but succeed as a so bad its good movie.
Also watch the entire damn movie otherwise your opinion is as flawed and invalid as a person that reads 30 pages of the book Treasure Island so not reading the entire book and saying it's a boring book.

Anyone who's ever seen a hawk attack and kill a small animal knows how chilling a bird attack can be.
Also I had the chance to witness a gathering of hundreds, maybe thousands of crows, at dusk in a rural part of Canada. They were gathering in large pine trees probably to travel together to their roosting spot for the night. They made a tremendous racket. So impressive. I always thought crows would have been a better choice for this movie than the gulls used.

Some 'generic' birds can be pretty intimidating. I've been on beaches when Herring gulls swoop down looking for scraps or just patrolling their turf, these are quite large birds and I've seen them rip pigeons apart with apparent glee. So were they to attack people with the same vigor I can see a nasty (and frightening) outcome as in 'The Birds'. I also think the sheer number of (even small generic) birds in this story hellbent on causing harm to humans adds to the fear factor. The idea of nature giving man some of his own medicine is an interesting one, especially considering what we are (still) doing to the planet.

The fact that you watched "about 45 minutes" of the film really says a lot. Try watching the complete movie and let us know what you think. Also, please note that the film was made in 1963 and so does not have all the bells and whistles of today's cgi.

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I am frightened. Frightened by children with no sense of perspective. No sense of history. No idea of context.

Birds are not scary.
You wouldn't say this as my lovebirds' sharp beaks puncture your flesh, drawing blood and eventually consuming your tattered corpse.
OK, that least part is an exaggeration. Does anyone know why these avian assassins were given such a name? Was this a marketing campaign? After all, shouldn't a pet owner expect
love
from a lovebird, and not violence?

In the movie these birds clearly were a threat as they killed and injured many people. Your attention should have been on that aspect, not on what the threat to the people was. That is where the scariness comes from-the fact that something was harming and killing people.
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bbmcgee-39536 says > Before watching this movie, I didn't think a bird's brainpan was big enough to mount an attack. After watching this movie, I'm now convinced their brainpans are plenty big enough.
I avoided watching this movie for a long time because people have said it was really scary. I didn't think it was that bad but since I saw it the other day I've paid a lot more attention to the birds hanging around here; especially the big black crows with the huge, pointy and powerful beaks.
If one attacked it would be bad enough but most people probably could fight one off or get away from it. If large masses of them attacked all at once, like in the movie, it would be pretty horrifying. Young children and older people would probably be more vulnerable since they couldn't get away very quickly or fight back as well.
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Before watching this movie, I didn't think a bird's brainpan was big enough to mount an attack. After watching this movie, I'm now convinced their brainpans are plenty big enough.

It's scary because we are SURROUNDED by birds of all kinds. Hundreds of thousands, locally. They're not something we see as commonly "dangerous". The Sheer number and our comfort with them surrounding us every day, is what makes the thought of them turning on us frightening.

I've seen more than one article about gulls attacking people. It seems like it would be scary enough to have one or two of those swooping at you, let alone a flock.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2352277/Postmen-refuse-deliver-seaside-road-risk-dive-bombed-seagulls.html

You obviously haven't been to Aberdeen Scotland - the Sea Gulls are massive!

If a bird opened up the door while you were sitting on the toilet, and looked at you directly in the eye, you'd think twice about what you posted about this film.

Thank you!

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I first saw it at College, in a film class. (s). OP must be either very young, very luckyOR BOTH,
Gulls and Blue Jays, in particular, can be very territorial. Jays can be much nastier, because they tend to be in suburban areas. A Blue Jay will "Dive Bomb" you just for the sheer joy of it. (When I was a kid, we called them "Kamakaze Jays".) Gulls are less likely to go after a person, because their nests are not as accessible.
JS (who has a Blue Jay Gouge on her arm, from just LOOKING at a fallen nestling)
I do hope he won't upset Henry

OK I watched about 45 minutes of this in English lit
This part of the OP's post is interesting to me. Hitchcock was, in his time, a "commercial filmmaker" whose work wasn't taken very seriously by many critics or the Oscar Academy but now53 years laterThe Birds is shown as part of a academic "English lit" course. Perhaps as much to illuminate the short story by Daphne DuMaurier("Rebecca") as the film that Hitchcock made from it?
It is my belief that Hitchcock's films will likely live on from now on AS academic teachings. In film classes and English classes and drama classes. The Hollywood Heavyweight now joins Dickens and Melville for study
and the whole time I'm thinking this is no better than some ridiculous SyFy channel film with a ridiculous killer creature. How about the recent horror films with the killer sheep? Or mosquitoes? Seriously, this film is flawed to hell because of choosing birds as a threat.
Well, in choosing the material, Hitchcock was adamant that the birds in question be "innocent" birds. No birds of prey like owls(the resident killer bird in "Psycho.") No hawks. No ravens(though the crows LOOKED like ravens andwhat's the difference, anyway?)
Hitchcock delighted in giving his audiences a "newfound sense of menace in the everyday." You'd feel different about taking a shower once you saw Psycho. You'd feel different about a group of birds on a wire once you saw The Birds.
Also, keep in mind that Hitchcock's film came DECADES before all those Syfy movies and, in a certain way, inspired that ENTIRE CHANNEL. But with a much better cinematic flair(if, indeed, a flawed and slow script.)
Ok, maaaaaaybe if these birds were massive. Maaaaaaybe if they were all eagles or something. But just generic birds.
As noted above. Hitchcock WANTED generic birds to be the killers.
I don't care how many they are not that big of a threat.
Sure they are. The film "pulls its punches" on the attacks except for the one scene where the farmer is found with his eyes pecked out. That's how the birds kill in the main(Annie's eyes are pecked out, too but Mitch covers them with his hand to block Melanie's view.) Though the climactic attic room attack on Tippi Hedren shows us how a hundred beaks tearing into a victim's flesh could probably kill the victim via shock and blood loss("A death of a thousand cuts.")
If birds came flying at humanity in waves, by the thousands, by the MILLIONSno guns could stop them. No cannons could stop them. And though The Birds didn't have the budget to show this, birds attacking in waves by the thousands(millions?), could destroy all electrical towers, down airliners by clogging their jet turbines, poison water by filling reservoirs with dead birdsit wouldn't take long for nature to take back the world from humans.
All that said, no, perhaps the birds aren't scary AS birds. "The Birds" was the next film after "Psycho" from Hitchocck, and it made less than half OF "Psycho" and one reason cited at the time was that the knife-wielding shower-killing psycho of "Psycho" was far more terrifying thanbirds.
So I'll agree with you there. But The Birds isn't necessarily about shocks and terrorit is about the destruction of the world by a mass attack.
From unknowable sources. And for unknowable reasons.

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You must be a child. Either physically or mentally. I'm watching this on BBC America right now and it's a masterpiece. I just can't figure out what's driving the birds..

People said the same thing about your generation. These ''youth of today'' rants are always so dumb

I wouldn't accuse all youth of being so abysmally afflicted. It's just people with bad taste; I'm sure they existed when this film originally came out, just as they exist to-day. They just didn't have the internet around to show off their negative qualities and subpar breeding/upbringing.

It's me.Barait's always bloody Bara!

Amen.

Simply more proof, that the youth of today is simply too retarded to understand anything, gets "bored" by everything that isn't CGI and Explosions and have their brain only so their upper head isn't completely empty.
A common, but still sad sight you are, cokezero.