The birds was an amazing horror film if not slightly random. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock And starring Tippi Hedren as the lead actress. The film starts with main character Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursuing a love interest ( Mitch) when all the birds of every kind start to attack people. When I read this on the blurb It sounded almost comical but was anything but. The scene that gripped me the most was when Melanie was outside waiting for a child (Mitch's younger sister) to come out of school . She was sitting on a bench with a cigarette and the children's singing in the background. When we start to see shots of behind her and on the children's play equipment is a crow, and then we see her and one by one, more crows appear behind her on the children's play equipment until the whole background school play area is full. She looks behinds her and slowly walks into the school to warn the children. The children come out of the slowly and are told be careful until she says run. As soon as the school, teacher says run , the birds attack the children violently.
This film was totally original and making something that seems so harmless completely terrifying. This movie builds suspense throughout and leaves the film on a cliffhanger . I thought it brilliant there was no sequel so we are left guessing.
The film is almost more scary when you can't see any birds because it builds that tension and silence.
I thought this a brilliant film and a complete original horror.

I watched Rope by Alfred Hitchcock on my own on a DVD. Overall i enjoyed the film, i liked the fact that it was different (by shooting it in one (several rolls needed) continuous take). I thought that the scripting was very good, the way the audience laughs at a comment made related to murder whilst the character doesn't notice how this is funny due to there lack of knowledge in the situation. Thinking of murder as an art is an interesting angle on it, one hard for a normal, non psychopathic audience could understand. I felt however that if the murder was not shown at the beginning of the film then there would have been a lot more tension when the chest was nearly opened as the audience would not know whether there was a body in there or not.