Saturday, October 23, 2010

Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"

For the past few months I have been thinking about fall and Halloween.  I love this time of year!  For many years now I have wanted to have a Halloween costume party for kids and adults.  Even though it won't happen this year, I still like to think about what would make a great, unique costume.  I do not like the current style of horror movies, you know the leave nothing to the imagination slash and gore movies. Any one can just fill up the screen with all those typical horror movie effects, but not everyone can make a classic movie like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds".  This great movie was filmed in 1963 and depicts the city of Bodega Bay, CA which has suddenly become the home of wildly strange acting black birds who are terrifying and attacking the citizens.  It features actress Tippi Hedren in the title role as a visitor to the city.  Her outfits and style is so wonderfully vintage. She wears classic 60's suits and is featured with black birds in her hair and specs of blood where the birds have attacked her.  A must see thriller if you have never seen it and a great Halloween costume!  Happy Halloween !