Psycho/The Birds (DVD)

"I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of t

Advantages: Classic Hitchcock - I can say no more !!
Disadvantages: None

I'm starting this review with a quote from the Master himself, Alfred Hitchcock: "When a new Hitchcock film appears, the public and critics sit back at the start and say to themselves, 'Let's see him scare me.' My job is to get them up on the edge of their seats, and to keep them there. It gets more difficult all the time because one must find new ways to surprise an audience. Any time a viewer of one of my films can say to himself, 'I knew that was coming,' I've lost him." THE BIRDS After his groundbreaking 1960 shocker 'Psyco', Alfred Hitchcock re-emerged three years later with 'The Birds' - a story of a California coastal town filled with an onslaught of seemingly unexplained, attacks by ordinary birds. 'The Birds' was based on the story of the same name written by Daphne Du Maurier - this was Hitchcock's third ...

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THE THORN BIRDS DVD

Advantages: lovely mini-series to watch
Disadvantages: bit long to watch in one go

Colleen McCullough wrote The Thorn Birds in 1977. The story of illicit love between a priest and a young girl, set in Australia, starting in 1920 and spanning the next 60 years in Rome and Australia. The Thorn Birds was turned into a mini-series in 1983, starring Rachel Ward and Richard Chamberlain in the starring roles. I remember watching this, I would have been 11 at the time and I have also read the book several times. My husband gave me the DVD for Christmas, so here is a little review on The Thorn Birds. CAST +++++ Mary Carson - Barbara Stanwyck Megan Cleary - Rachel Ward Father Ralph de Bricassart - Richard Chamberlain Fiona Cleary - Jean Simmons Anne Mueller - Piper Laurie Luke O'Neill - Bryan Brown Dane O'Neill - Philip Anglim Justine O'Neill - Mare Winningham ...

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Dead Birds

Advantages: creepy, good sound
Disadvantages: slow

time goes on they come to realise that not all is as it seems in this innocuous looking shelter and they soon begin to think that staying there may not have been a good idea. Dead Birds was recommended to me a little while ago and I decided to rent it out to see what it was like. And whilst its title is misleading I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the film, it is by no means perfect but it is far from being a complete lemon. On one side the film is fairly original in that it is set during the American Civil War, and in that whole setup looked good to me, the uniforms and the war-weary look in the people's faces all went to create a world that seemed believable and convincing, (to me at least). But it also follows standard genre conventions in that we have a creepy house, complete with a large cornfield that is spooky by ...

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