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The Birds (1963)

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Queer Horror, Gay Horror, Lgbt Horror, Film Reviews, Queer, Tv & Film, Gay, Film History, Lgbt

4.7931 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Alma! We're covering another Alfred Hitchcock film with 1963's The Birds.

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0:00.0

You have to control

0:02.0

You have to control yourself! And welcome back to horror queers.

0:27.5

We're talking, I mean, birds don't just go around attacking people without no reason.

0:33.0

We're talking, are the birds going to eat us, mommy?

0:36.9

And we're talking, they said when you got here,

0:39.3

the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? I think you're the cause of all this. I think

0:43.6

you're evil. Evil! I'm Joe. And I'm Trace, and we are talking one really dedicated and

0:50.8

committed practical Joker. Oh, okay. Honestly honestly joe i forgot or didn't i was never aware

0:59.4

that this was the plot of the first hour of this movie oh yes yes for some reason i thought you

1:04.7

were talking about hitch which is like oh though i'm old here i'm putting brains on, and it's hilarious.

1:11.5

Melanie, Melanie's entire thing is, I'm bored. Let's go do a practical joke on this guy that pissed me off.

1:17.2

This is so true. She is very committed to seeing this through.

1:21.5

Yeah, I really enjoyed this. Everyone, we are discussing Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

1:26.2

I believe our third Hitchcock film following

1:29.1

Rebecca and Psycho, right? Oh, no, there's another one. We've done rope. We've done strangers on a

1:35.0

train. Oh, fuck. Oh my God. Yep. Okay. Well, our fifth Hitchcock film following all those other ones.

1:42.1

I mean, let's be honest. We can do many, many of his films, can't we? Well, and that's the thing is, I mean, like, because I think Strangers on a train and rope were first time watches for me. But as I've said multiple times, I've seen the really big Hitchcock films, but also not. I've never seen North by Northwest, notorious, suspicion. Like, none of those I've ever seen. I really want to start going through all these films because just revisiting this I was like oh right

2:04.8

like I love these movies oh right these movies are really fucking good well had you seen this before

2:11.3

I'm assuming you'd seen this before Joe I had seen this several times yeah several like as a kid as an

2:15.8

adult um I didn't watch any hitchcock as a child so

2:19.7

i think it would have been you know i've i've talked about my descent into film bro territory

2:25.4

around the end of high school and into the first couple of years of my university career

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