The Birds (1963)

Part of the summer series Alfred Hitchcock Presents!

When socialite Melanie meets a playful lawyer in a pet shop, she decides to play a joke on him and deliver a pair of love birds to his home on the California coast. However, the town soon finds itself under savage attack by wild birds, and Melanie plays a central role in the town’s bid for survival.

Hitch’s much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films — a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror.

The Village Voice

Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.

The New Yorker