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Genre
Hitchcock was known for his suspense films, and yes, the film has a boatload of suspense.
But, The Birds was his first shot at a straight-up horror-genre film. He nailed it: it's chock full of horror-movie tropes. For example, the overwrought villagers who mutter darkly among themselves ("I think you're the cause of all of this. I think you're evil. EVIL!") hark back to at least Bram Stoker's Dracula. And, of course, horror films love monsters—and The Birds has one of the great monsters ever in its hordes of flapping, squawking antagonists.
Hitchcock being Hitchcock, he plays with the horror genre in daring ways:
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