I’m generally not all that much into the horror genre in movies. I figure that I’ve had enough horror in my life that when I see a movie I want it to be funny or uplifting. (Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a great life and I know it, but as in every life there have been scary times too. In just the last 8 years my daughter nearly died and was in intensive care for weeks and in the hospital for a month and still has an “incurable” and life-threatening disease, My Beloved survived cancer, I was diagnosed with the Suicide Disease , I experienced the Great Recession as a fairly new founder of an investment management firm, and an 18-year old business that I founded and operated in a different industry went belly up and drove us into bankruptcy for the first time in a near-lifetime of being self-employed in a variety of businesses.)
Oops, sorry to get so far off track. Back to horror movies. So, although I’m not generally fond of horror flicks, there are some that I have enjoyed. “The Birds” is one of them. Perhaps a reason for same is that I enjoy watching Tippi Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette on film. (I enjoyed the latter in Disney films when I was growing up.)
Or perhaps it is because I have been to the locations of many of the famous scenes in the movie. Rememer the schoolhouse? Been there. It’s now someone’s personal residence. I’m also been to the town where key outdoor scenes were shot. I think that’s kind of cool and I enjoy the movie more as a result.
Anyway, I just learned that the film “The Birds” is 50 years old, is based on an actual incident in Montery, California in 1961, the reason the birds in the real incident went crazy, and that the director Alfred Hitchcock lived at the time in a small town named Scott’s Valley about 20 minutes from my home and I never knew it. That all fascinates me.
If you enjoyed “The Birds”, I invite you to click on the above link. You never know what you might learn.
Love,
Russ
Russ Towne's A Grateful Man 