After classics like Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo and Psycho, among others, it was anyone’s guess what the famed "Master of Macabre" woul.
Fears of technological overreach, environmental decline, and the violent rise of the irrational: our 21st century anxieties were anticipated in an unlikely 20th century horror metaphor. “The Birds” – a haunting 1953 short story by Daphne duMaurier, and the truly bizarre 1963 Alfred Hitchcock movie that it inspired.