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Originally Posted by hammerfan
Watching Brides of Dracula right now. Having myself a little Hammer marathon. Starting with this, then will move on to Curse of the Werewolf. Tomorrow I'll continue with Phantom of the Opera, Paranoiac (which I highly recommend to neverending and everyone), The Kiss of the Vampire, Nightmare, Night Creatures, and ending with The Evil of Frankenstein.
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Brides of Dracula was always my favorite Hammer film, beautiful cinematography and engrossing.
The Birds
7/10
Been a long time since I've seen the Birds. Forgot about the opening story of the very forward Tippi Hedren breaking into a stranger's house to drop off Love Birds and then staying at his ex-girlfriends place. I now notice the birds are matted over the human scenes. Never noticed that the first time.
Nice to see the beautiful Jessica Tandy, lookin fine. Of course Tippi and Suzanne Pleshette are quite fetching as well. I forgot Veronica Cartwright was in this. Bizarre coincidence, I had just watched veronica about the same age in the Twilight Zone episode "I Sing the Body Electric", not to mention a few Leave It to Beaver episodes. She was perhaps best known as the blonde in Alien.
In "Psycho fashion", there's the 'left turn' at the 1/3, or so, point of the flim, and the birds muscle in. I forgot how quickly the film ends after the first attack. Seems to end abruptly.
Impactful as horror-suspense (I think less so circa 2014), but not a particularly strong narrative, nor strong characters.