The Birds

Originally posted by orangutan
A lot of the power in his horror is precisely the lack of graphic detail. It's all suggestion - what can you show that cannot be made worse by your own imagination?

One of the interesting features of The Birds is the lack of soundtrack. There's something unsettling about it, because you're used to "scary" music in films like that.

Originally posted by GalaxyShield
I saw this movie for the first time the other night, and found that it was at times, terrifying. I know it's not as graphic as modern horror/thriller movies, but something about it scared me more than modern horror does. I can't figure it out.

There's something about Hitchcock's (all jokes aside, for now) movies that are far more horrorish than mode ...[text shortened]... id it is what's scary about it.

Anybody else get this sort of feeling from his movies?

Dude who wants birds attacking them? That's why it's scarier!