“It could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made…..” That’s an actual quote from movie director Alfred Hitchcock. And what movie was he talking about?

“The Birds”. A movie that was released this week back in 1963. The film focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California.

The movie was partly inspired by the true events of a mass bird attack on the seaside town of  Capitola in California on August 18, 1961, when residents awoke to a scene that seemed straight out of a horror movie. Flocks of seagulls and seabirds were dive-bombing their homes and crashing into cars.  Alfred Hitchcock heard of this event and used it as research material for his film. (The real cause of the birds’ behavior was toxic algae, but toxic algae was not heard of back in the early ’60’s)

Take a stroll down Memory Lane and check out the trailer for the movie below: (VIDEO: YouTube/True Cinema Buff)