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Library Film
Series Features The Birds
The Birds (1963) is perhaps the strangest film Alfred Hitchcock ever
made, or at least the most unlikely. Though the film’s tension comes
more from suspense than horror, placing the narrative in the British
director’s wheelhouse, it’s still an odd choice for Hitchcock. While
it’s not the only quasi-horror film he ever made (Psycho has to be
counted there), it is the only film he ever made where the threat
didn’t come from another human being. In this case, it came from birds.
Near the end of his career, when he was entrenched as one of the
greatest directors in the world, he decided to make a B-movie creature
feature.
The Birds tells the story of a small coastal town in California where
the local avian residents stop acting like birds and start acting like
murderous monsters. The story follows Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren),
Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and a few hangers-on (Jessica Tandy is
excellent as Mitch’s chilly mother) as they try to escape the aerial
attack of feathered nightmares.
Join us on Thursday, October 20, at 7 p.m., for this fun (and
frightening) movie. It's the perfect film for an October night. David
Nilsen will be leading a brief discussion after the movie, and, as
always, there will be free theater popcorn, candy, coffee, and Jones
Soda. We hope to see you there.
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