Revisiting Hitchcock's Horror Classic "The Birds."

I remember sitting in the dark 
in the back row of the Acadia Theatre
with my brother Roy in late 1963 or early 1964.

Acadia Cinema's Al Whittle Theatre, 

Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

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The last tense minutes 
of Alfred Hitchcock's horror thriller The Birds 
played out on the screen.

I was scarcely breathing as 
Melanie Daniels, Mitch Brenner, 
his mother and his daughter, 
with a pair of caged lovebirds,
slipped out of their house and eased into their car.

Then they drove, gathering speed, 
into unknown future
through tens of thousands of perching birds.

Theatrical Poster for the Film The Birds (1963)

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Roy and I had started off laughing hysterically
at the preposterous sight of seagulls, 
sparrows, and crows attacking people.

But then the movie became suspenseful, and scary,
as the chaos and fear spread in Bodega Bay.
Roy and I grew quiet.

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I never forgot the spooky feeling that night 
as my brother and I left the lighted theatre lobby
and walked home through the dark streets of Wolfville.

A couple of weekends ago
Terry and I turned a corner in Honolulu,
and I was catapulted into Hitchcock's The Birds.

It was the creepiest sensation.
Suddenly I was tiptoeing past hundreds of noisy birds.

The sight of all those birds perched on and around the house
made my hands sweat and my breath stop.

It didn't phase the Ever-Patient Terry.
He simply waited across the street
while I took pictures in amazement.

 

When we returned to our hotel later in the evening,
I asked about the house surrounded by birds.

Nothing sinister.
Just a family that loved birds 
and fed them regularly.

For the rest of our time in Honolulu,
I felt uneasy walking past this house,
especially in the dark.

I couldn't shake my eerie movie memories.

Did you ever see The Birds?

What did you think?

Here's a clip from the ending of Hitchcock's classic The Birds.
Enjoy!

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