The Birds

Melanie travels to Bodega Bay to meet lawyer Mitch, but the visit becomes anything but pleasant: The birds in the small town begin attacking people. Gradually they increase in numbers until they become a swarm of thousands pecking at defenseless people with a demonic and deadly fury. Is it nature settling scores with humans who have taken it for granted for too long? Is it the beginning of doomsday? Or is the bird threat a projection of human aggressions and repressed feelings? From the birds, you get no answers, and it is precisely this uncertainty that makes The Birds the ultimate nightmare. After Psycho, there was great anticipation for Alfred Hitchcock's next film. How would he manage to repeat the enormous success? It wasn't just the audience and critics asking this question, but also Hitchcock himself. Therefore, he also waited three years before launching The Birds, his most expensive, technically ambitious, and most thoroughly planned film. All resources available for film production at the time were utilized. The film's production designer, Robert Boyle, drew inspiration from Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream'. Just like Munch, Hitchcock wanted a subjective approach, so that the audience could identify with the character's feelings and the physical dangers they are exposed to.