# These thoughts and questions are for The Birds

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 28, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-thoughts-and-questions-are-for-the-birds/708360 "2014-12-28T15:59:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-thoughts-and-questions-are-for-the-birds/708360/21 "2014-12-29T18:18:33Z")

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And the little girl who played Mitch’s little sister was the actress who grew up to become Purina Alien Chow in the movie _Alien_. IIRC, she was the last one of the crew to get munched.

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-thoughts-and-questions-are-for-the-birds/708360/22 "2014-12-29T18:22:47Z")

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Following the success of Psycho that alone would prime the audience to be waiting for a horrific scene at every moment. But The Birds is actually a much tamer movie.

I’ll always give _The Birds_ a higher fright score than _Psycho_, because I saw the former when I was a little kid and it scared the holy bejeezus out of me - in particular, the scene with the dead guy whose eyes had been pecked out.

I saw _Psycho_ for the first time as an adult, and it didn’t frighten me nearly as much.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-thoughts-and-questions-are-for-the-birds/708360/23 "2014-12-29T18:29:21Z")

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> [@teela\_brown](#):
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> I’ll always give _The Birds_ a higher fright score than _Psycho_, because I saw the former when I was a little kid and it scared the holy bejeezus out of me - in particular, the scene with the dead guy whose eyes had been pecked out.
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> I saw _Psycho_ for the first time as an adult, and it didn’t frighten me nearly as much.

I can understand that. My own opinion is colored by reversing that order, Psycho when I was somewhat young, The Birds later. The first time I saw both was on broadcast TV and some scenes were clearly censored. Not like I could see much on a fuzzy B&W 12" screen anyway.

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