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The Birds. With a shrieking din, the lettering of the titles and credits comes on, only to be pecked from the screen by a squadron of crazed starlings. Hav...

Read the Empire Movie review of The Birds. Genuinely disturbing thriller classic from the master of...

Read the Empire Movie review of EMPIRE ESSAY: The Birds. A mysterious army of enemies, with no sugggested motive and, what's worse, they're your friendly...

On March 28, 1963, Alfred Hitchcock premiered his 'Psycho' feature follow-up, 'The Birds,' in New York.

If The Birds works at all it\'s because of the sound design.

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Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.

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