This is the last of my Hitchcock related movie reviews, so I had to end with Birds. This is a singular movie, one that mixes birds with horror. I recall watching this movie as a young lad, then afterwards while playing hardball (that’s right, I said hardball) on the boulevard, having a distinct feeling that the neighborhood pigeons were menacing me, out to peck me to death.
This was a game changing film, made by a very disturbed and sick man: Alfred Hitchcock.
The lead actress, Tipi Hendren, is said to have been sexually harassed on a daily basis by Hitch. He had a thing for his blonde actresses and behaved in a manner that was awfully similar to the psychotic in another one of his films: Psycho.
Apparently, they didn’t use fake birds in this film and Tipi didn’t have a fucking stunt double. Those birds truly went ham on her and she was injured during the production, most likely because she didn’t give into Hitch’s sexual advances.
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