Alfred Hitchcock famously (and creepily) said, "Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints." (Source) Oof.This guy enjoyed working with coolly elega...

"Why do birds suddenly appear / Every time you are near?" The Carpenters knew. Those birds just wanted to get close to Melanie Daniels.But, what do these avian aggressors represent? Everyone has an...

"Back in your gilded cage, Melanie Daniels," says Mitch in the pet shop. Cages and cage imagery are everywhere in the The Birds. Not surprising for a movie about birds, we guess, but most of the bi...

Check out the title credit sequence: birds are swooping and crashing into the titles, and the words shatter. Watching it on TV makes it look like your screen is about to shatter into pieces. This m...

The lovebirds are a symbol of love. We suspect you could have figured that out.Whose love is also pretty easy to figure out. Melanie and Mitch argue about the lovebirds right at the beginning of th...

Most people in this movie don't see what's happening right before their eyes. Whether it's self-awareness or awareness of danger, they don't want to know about it. AMC's Filmsite notices that "nume...