I won't lie... I actually want to watch a full re-edit of The Birds without the birds... just a town of people going insane, believing that they are attacked by birds.
To be fair, it probably was a bad idea... For your highschool teacher. This man knows how to pull it off. Things can either land the punch perfectly or just flop over, depending on whose hand it is in. Having said that, your idea did have potential. Just not in the hands of your highschool theatre teacher, unfortunately.
I just used this video as an example of what it felt like when I wrote a story where a character reveals a shocking twist except I somehow forgot to add the line in with the twist so all the characters gasped in horror at absolutely nothing.
It really is. As good as The Birds is - especially for the time it came out - when you boil it down it's more or less just another monster-type movie. Removing the titular birds but keeping everything else intact turns it into more of a psychological horror movie where some unknown and unseen force is driving the entire population into some sort of hallucinogenic madness. What it comes down to is the monster you can see can be thwarted, defeated and killed through the scientific method of observation, measurement and testing, whereas the monster you can't see is much scarier because you can't apply the scientific method to something you can't see, robbing you of the safety and security of being able to overcome it, and thus taking away your sense of empowerment over the monster.
@Bazukin Belyugovich I remember both versions - the old one had a different cause than the remake, and honestly the remake was scarier due to being more realistic and believable - but you're right, conceptually it was a very similar story.
This has happened to me also. Jones Beach. 2006. Full cup of French fries in hand. Damn seagull dive bombed me Tippi-style and flew away with the entire thing. Now I just give them away 😂
The real birds were Oreo cookies. Not kidding. In scenes calling for mass attacks of fast moving birds which would not be clearly seen, there were crew off camera continuously throwing handfuls of broken up Oreo cookies. That was the birds.
I have watched this many more times than I probably should have. The moment when the gas stand attendant falls over for no apparent reason always gives me a laugh! (Oh, and your Hitchcock impression is spot-on!!!)
as someone who suffers from ornithophobia (bird phobia) and, thus, can't even stand the bare sight of a bird, i have obviously been avoiding this movie my whole life. but seeing this edit, i really couldn't be any happier😂 you don't know how much i appreciate this as someone who likes hitchcock, thank you so much!😊
I feel terrible For you, i find birds absolutely beautiful and interesting creatures 😱 are you afraid of their presence or does only looking at The pictures of a bird trigger your phobia?
@@anttitheinternetguy3213 that's so kind of you to say! :') to answer your question: both i would say and so much more. i don't like the way they look, the feathers, their little head movements, the noises their wings make before they take off, every other noise they make with exception to gentle chirping (imagine spring time and they're sitting on some distant tree where i can't see them with my bare eyes, whether i'm out somewhere or indoors). they could be alive, dead or taxidermies displayed in museums, in movies, so not even on site in real life .. it doesn't matter. even birds in drawings and animated movies trigger me. the only grand exception is when they don't look very bird-like, for example, because their characteristic features are omitted or alternated in some way. so donald duck, for example, is absolutely okay for me to look at😊 i'm most afraid of owls, no matter what kind. in addition to everything else i mentioned, it creeps me out that they're able to move their heads in all sorts of directions. if i ever get near one (which hasn't happened yet), i will most probably faint right on the spot🙈 parrots and how they're able to learn how to speak human languages, even if it's just a few words, are super unsettling for me, too. that was very long but i hope this little insight was somewhat helpful :)
So a person whose worst fear is more existential than physical would be immune? Cause fearing something intangible like poverty, humiliation or failure is a whole lot harder to take the form of than something like, say, zombies or monsters.
@@Dargonhuman I don't think that would grant immunity. My guess is that then, you'd just get into 'anthropomorphisised personification of a natural process' territory. (Terry Pratchett term.) Death can be the Grim Reaper. Famine is a Horseman of the Apocalypse. I think Poverty, Humiliation, and Failure aren't a stretch given that.
@RockManLP_Reviews libs are living in fear with masks and lockdowns, the right is the side of the fearless. The right's not scared of anything except for vaccines, 5g, microchips, socialism, immigrants, rioters and looters, Islam, the deep state. Gotta stay strapped 24/7 you never know what could happen but the libs are all sheep for not wanting to get sick and spread disease.
Okay, now I figured out why the algorithm took me from short videos of birds to this channel. This particular video didn't pop up first, so I was confused.
this channel is really underrated, n after watching Joel Haver blow up recently, I truly hope you get more recognition soon!! Keep up the good content!
Or in this case, you tell everyone you know about the first rule of Fight Club, tweet furiously about it, write an op-ed for the New York Times, and then sign a deal with Netflix for a limited series starring Kegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
My parents had my siblings and me watch a bunch of Hitchcock films when we were young. I was about 7, and my siblings were a couple years older. I laughed all the way through the Birds, but my sister is still scared of birds. My parents also had us watch the shining when we were going to be snowed in for about a week. They had a good time scaring us.
There’s an invisible gelatinous cube in one of Lovecraft’s stories, which pushes its way through forests, cutting a clean path as it goes. This reminds me of that creature.
@@OddoFelacio Yes, they made that into the movie Color Out of Space (slight title change), with Nicholas Cage a couple of years ago. It was really good!
@Gary Allen I wish I could remember. It was a minor part of a story where the characters could hear the destruction, and later found an enormous swath of the forest cut clear.
I really want to see this in its entirety one day! Brilliant! And only spoken references to “nothing” like in the diner scene. The kind of idea I wish I had thought of!
What about "Front Window"? Jimmy Stewart sits in a chair for the whole movie with his leg in plaster, wishing there was something more interesting going on outside.
Stupidest comment here. They could act like republicans, with their bigoted, racist speech, or how about all the times they tried to overturn the election? Or how about trump being the cause of covid and the mess we are in? So stfu.
Just replaying the movie in my head but without the birds. -Melanie shopping for nothing in a store that specializes in empty cages and then buying one for Cathy...with nothing in it. -The guy who owns the farm (can't remember his name) dying from pecking out his own eyes. -Annie giving up her own life to save Cathy on the porch by being attacked by the vast, empty nothing. -Mitch boarding up the house so the absolute nothing can't get inside. -Melanie going upstairs to the room where nothing got in, being mauled by it, and then having a nervous breakdown over nothing. -The terrified mother in the diner bitch-slapping Melanie for absolutely no reason. This is high quality Hitchcockian suspense here.
G'mork explains The Absolutely Nothing: "It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it."
TBF a film where everyone starts going insane and believe that they're going to be killed by something they can see sounds like a terrifying concept if done correctly.
I won't lie... I actually want to watch a full re-edit of The Birds without the birds... just a town of people going insane, believing that they are attacked by birds.
Holy shit. That sounds even more frightening. Just a whole town of people going crazy for no reason.
That’s some Lovecraft shit
I’d pay good money to see that!
I would not want a full Reddit of The Birds.
Twitter would sue them.
I'd watch an edit of The Birds where the real birds are replaced with the birds from birdemic.
I asked our high school theater teacher to do this 20 years ago. He thought it was a bad idea.
I feel a sense of redemption.
To be fair, it probably was a bad idea... For your highschool teacher.
This man knows how to pull it off.
Things can either land the punch perfectly or just flop over, depending on whose hand it is in.
Having said that, your idea did have potential.
Just not in the hands of your highschool theatre teacher, unfortunately.
hitchkok,aren't you?
Maybe you could volunteer at the local highschool theatre club and get your "The Birds with no Birds" theatre play made
It's time to send him a hello with this video...if he's alive.
I mean he teaches high school, so that kinda says a lot about him
I really hoped it was just gonna say "Alfred Hitchcock presents: The "
Oh, that would have been perfect!
"Alfred Hitchcock doesn't present".
@Scom Tott A Hottsman on a Scorse.
Sounds like a script written by SpongeBob.
'Drop the "Birds", just "The"' - Sean Parker
The real birds were the friends we made along the way
And the real friends were the birds we made up along the way
The real way was made by our friends out of birds
LOL!!
Human bird war
Australia vs emus
China vs sparrows
Humans:0
Birds:2
Weird flex, but ok
“The absolutely nothing” sounds like a documentary of my life
Underrated 🙌
:(
I love you.
I want to give like but its 666 and I can't ruin it
Well, now, that's just Seinfeld.
This movie does exist. Its called "The Happening".
Was looking for this comment 😅
Mark Wahlberg is an absolute unintentional gem.
Nailed it ☝️
What, no!
Was thinking the same thing. Even the titles are similar.
@@Blitzkreig19 what!? Noooo
I just used this video as an example of what it felt like when I wrote a story where a character reveals a shocking twist except I somehow forgot to add the line in with the twist so all the characters gasped in horror at absolutely nothing.
Lol i laughed way too hard at that
M. Night Shyamalan: _"Write that down! Write that down!"_
Perfect!
What a twist!
Hahaha.
M. Night Shamalamadingdong
write nothing done!
It’s kind of scarier this way
It really is. As good as The Birds is - especially for the time it came out - when you boil it down it's more or less just another monster-type movie. Removing the titular birds but keeping everything else intact turns it into more of a psychological horror movie where some unknown and unseen force is driving the entire population into some sort of hallucinogenic madness.
What it comes down to is the monster you can see can be thwarted, defeated and killed through the scientific method of observation, measurement and testing, whereas the monster you can't see is much scarier because you can't apply the scientific method to something you can't see, robbing you of the safety and security of being able to overcome it, and thus taking away your sense of empowerment over the monster.
Makes it an excellent metaphor for mid century American politics.
@@Dargonhuman The Happening...
In concept, but in execution it just looks a bit daft.
@Bazukin Belyugovich I remember both versions - the old one had a different cause than the remake, and honestly the remake was scarier due to being more realistic and believable - but you're right, conceptually it was a very similar story.
"Birds" written and directed by Sartre.
Des oiseaux sont les autres
@@TiaMat99 Les oiseaux, ce sont les autres.
For Sartre though, it would've been 'Crabs'.
Les mouches
No, I'm pretty sure it was Nietzsche. "(Human) Beings and Nothingness."
Well, nothing is in cinemas now
ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html
Welcome to COVID chapter 2.
Me: **eating french fries on beach**
French fries: **start flying away for no reason**
Wait,that happens to you, too? 😂
This has happened to me also. Jones Beach. 2006. Full cup of French fries in hand. Damn seagull dive bombed me Tippi-style and flew away with the entire thing. Now I just give them away 😂
I would eat that piece of air to get my damn food
The real birds were inside of our heads all along.
Much scarier.
@Joe Doe "Damn he's good"
Maybe the real birds were the friends we made along the way.
If you've ever read "Xeelee" by Stephen Baxter, you know about the photino birds that destroy the universe.
The real birds were Oreo cookies.
Not kidding.
In scenes calling for mass attacks of fast moving birds which would not be clearly seen, there were crew off camera continuously throwing handfuls of broken up Oreo cookies. That was the birds.
I have watched this many more times than I probably should have.
The moment when the gas stand attendant falls over for no apparent reason always gives me a laugh!
(Oh, and your Hitchcock impression is spot-on!!!)
You're too generous re: the impression! (But the gas station attendant shot was the one that made me want to make it.)
@@ABeckettKing And then the scream reaction! Hahaha kills me every time!
@@ABeckettKing How about Tippi Hedren's return in her second most baffling role:
"ROAR without the lions"?
@@MandleRoss That would be an impossible VFX feat. Every shot is 90% lions, 5% blood and 5% actors thinking about phoning their agents.
@@ABeckettKing Hahaha. But you forgot the 1% of "people thinking about divorcing their husband".
This movie came just after Hitchcock's previous hit 'Sane'.
It can't hold a candle to Fine With Heights.
@@smaakjeks another awesome movie is from his British years, 'Escalator'.
@@iododendron3416 I always liked Dial N For Nothing
@@smaakjeks or Aquaintances at a Bus Stop
@@iododendron3416 Yes, that's a good one. What about Just Some Regular Mail?
I too become frightened at the sight of empty playground equipment.
as someone who suffers from ornithophobia (bird phobia) and, thus, can't even stand the bare sight of a bird, i have obviously been avoiding this movie my whole life. but seeing this edit, i really couldn't be any happier😂
you don't know how much i appreciate this as someone who likes hitchcock, thank you so much!😊
Sheldon? Is that you?
07MAY2021 - Please don't think me unkind or cruel, but your comment is the best and possibly the most relavent. You're afraid of nothing.
I feel terrible For you, i find birds absolutely beautiful and interesting creatures 😱 are you afraid of their presence or does only looking at The pictures of a bird trigger your phobia?
@@anttitheinternetguy3213 that's so kind of you to say! :')
to answer your question: both i would say and so much more. i don't like the way they look, the feathers, their little head movements, the noises their wings make before they take off, every other noise they make with exception to gentle chirping (imagine spring time and they're sitting on some distant tree where i can't see them with my bare eyes, whether i'm out somewhere or indoors). they could be alive, dead or taxidermies displayed in museums, in movies, so not even on site in real life .. it doesn't matter. even birds in drawings and animated movies trigger me. the only grand exception is when they don't look very bird-like, for example, because their characteristic features are omitted or alternated in some way. so donald duck, for example, is absolutely okay for me to look at😊
i'm most afraid of owls, no matter what kind. in addition to everything else i mentioned, it creeps me out that they're able to move their heads in all sorts of directions. if i ever get near one (which hasn't happened yet), i will most probably faint right on the spot🙈
parrots and how they're able to learn how to speak human languages, even if it's just a few words, are super unsettling for me, too.
that was very long but i hope this little insight was somewhat helpful :)
@@min2538 Just in case... ua-cam.com/play/PLCmm0rfhsouxX59lbD43VMHhNwyTcbBsW.html
Taking "in the best horror films, you don't see the monster"' quite literally.
Critics are calling it "Terrifyingly mundane!" and "Thrillingly uneventful!"
The funny thing is, there is absolutely nothing in cinemas now.
Psyche - a film where a woman takes a shower.
I'd watch it ;)
@Joe Doe ;)
That's not nothing.
Rear window: a jornalist stares at his window, seeing nothing interesting at all.
@@marreco6347 He knows he'd be a full time Baker by now if he had stayed with Uncle Jake.
As they say, the less you can see, the more you can fear.
"The bigger the bonfire the more darkness is revealed".
Next, do “Harvey”, the story of a six foot tall rabbit who’s best friend is an imaginary Jimmy Stewart that nobody else can see.
I'd watch that
Jimmy Stewart is my imaginary friend, too
"We shalln't fight on the beaches, we shalln't fight them on the landing grounds, we shalln't fight at all in fact".
@Joe Doe Cracking up over here ...
Wait, do you think Hitchcock and Churchill were the same person?
@@wolfincognito yes.
this just turns it into an existential horror movie, and its great
This opens up a whole new genre that could make some movies even scarier. Well done.
“People describe seeing an entity that takes on the form of your worst fears.” - Malorie, Bird Box
you mean "absolutely nothing box"
So a person whose worst fear is more existential than physical would be immune? Cause fearing something intangible like poverty, humiliation or failure is a whole lot harder to take the form of than something like, say, zombies or monsters.
@@Dargonhuman I don't think that would grant immunity. My guess is that then, you'd just get into 'anthropomorphisised personification of a natural process' territory. (Terry Pratchett term.) Death can be the Grim Reaper. Famine is a Horseman of the Apocalypse. I think Poverty, Humiliation, and Failure aren't a stretch given that.
So basically this is the trailer for "The Happening"
They made the full length version and called it “The Happening.”
That isn't the same.
I used to live near Bodega Bay. Nothing happens there except for the occasional barking match between a seal and a dog.
Stare long enough into the nothing, and youtube will recommend it to you
Not gonna lie, this was actually scarier. Fake birds, or even cgi birds, are not scary. But possible hallucinations are.
The birds in the actual film are 100% real, though. Hedren really was attacked in the attic scene.
I take you have seen the making of the movie.
That's the problem with accepting that everything is CGI.
They used real birds though
The best movie about hallucinations is "Bug".
>fake birds
Have you even watched the movie? They were real birds.
Now I wanna see this entire thing.
This trailer edit was so good that Shyamalan made a movie based on it titled "The Happening"
"The Birds": A drama about collective insanity. A whole townships starts to believe they are attacked by vicious birds
“The”
I would love to see more of this! Love the original movie and I actually live near Bodega Bay. Seeing people freak out over nothing is epic!
I lived in West Petaluma, and my friends and I would go out to Bodega Bay frequently. It’s a beautiful place.
For those wondering, there is a version of the Birds without any birds. It's called the Happening.
Nope.
This was the pitch for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening.
_Seinfeld: The Motion Picture_
The funny bit is that this happens in real life. Hysteria is highly contagious in bovines, sheep and humans.
Love that you put humans last
@@danielle3064 alphabetical order you bird brand.
@@jackalenterprisesofohio I've been called a titanic buffon once. Bird brand is a new one
@RockManLP_Reviews libs are living in fear with masks and lockdowns, the right is the side of the fearless. The right's not scared of anything except for vaccines, 5g, microchips, socialism, immigrants, rioters and looters, Islam, the deep state. Gotta stay strapped 24/7 you never know what could happen but the libs are all sheep for not wanting to get sick and spread disease.
Only when you let a spavine run the herd. In humans they are fat and have pink hair.
Thats what its like to have anxiety
Okay, now I figured out why the algorithm took me from short videos of birds to this channel. This particular video didn't pop up first, so I was confused.
When flipping the bird is flipping the script
A version of the film, where Hitchcock not tortured the actors.
I am stil confused how this guy isn't hired by Netflix.
this channel is really underrated, n after watching Joel Haver blow up recently, I truly hope you get more recognition soon!! Keep up the good content!
Perfectly edited... I had no idea it was fake until like 10 seconds in
There should be only one pigeon edited in and rename it "The Bird".
Music by The Trashmen.
that's EXACTLY what the Birds is like to watch. But funnier!
And scarier.
This would be the best version of The Happening; the version we deserve.
What's next? Citizen Kane without the cane?
The Man Who Wasn't There without the man who... hang on...
@@ABeckettKing The Grapes of Wrath but with nary a vineyard in sight.
@@carag2567 erm.....
@@princezzpuffypants6287 Do you not get the joke?
If you, are thinking...
Of going into...
This house...
DON'T
It's like "The Happening" if it were by a good writer/director.
Superb Hitchcock impression, the 60s voice recording style really sells it
The end where they're all running away from nothing is terrifying.
The first rule of Flight Club is, you do not talk about Flight Club.
Or in this case, you tell everyone you know about the first rule of Fight Club, tweet furiously about it, write an op-ed for the New York Times, and then sign a deal with Netflix for a limited series starring Kegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
Never watched Birds but I would def watch this
Then you truly won't get the funniness of this.
My parents had my siblings and me watch a bunch of Hitchcock films when we were young. I was about 7, and my siblings were a couple years older. I laughed all the way through the Birds, but my sister is still scared of birds.
My parents also had us watch the shining when we were going to be snowed in for about a week. They had a good time scaring us.
Suddenly, this video has over 100k views just out of nowhere. Really glad about that honestly. This video’s hilarious.
It should be called "Anxiety: The Movie"
This would be... kinda lovecraftian
There’s an invisible gelatinous cube in one of Lovecraft’s stories, which pushes its way through forests, cutting a clean path as it goes. This reminds me of that creature.
@@timopper5488 Theres also a short story I think it's titled A Color Out of Space like that
@@OddoFelacio
Yes, they made that into the movie Color Out of Space (slight title change), with Nicholas Cage a couple of years ago. It was really good!
@Gary Allen
I wish I could remember. It was a minor part of a story where the characters could hear the destruction, and later found an enormous swath of the forest cut clear.
The self-aware tongue-in-cheek delivery is perfect!
That narration sounds so real! Spot on!
This is actually scarier
Is this what it's like to be in spring outside Australia?
Hats off to the creators of this video, from an old Hitchcock fan.
Ngl this is a whole new level of mystery magic beyond Quiet Place and Bird box.
- Inspired by the the event that didn't happen
The birds you fake are equal to the birds you make.
I really want to see this in its entirety one day! Brilliant! And only spoken references to “nothing” like in the diner scene. The kind of idea I wish I had thought of!
The fact that someone took time out of their life to make this video is the real humor happening here.
The man who knew too much about nothing.
What about "Front Window"? Jimmy Stewart sits in a chair for the whole movie with his leg in plaster, wishing there was something more interesting going on outside.
Or just having the wheelchair facing away from the window for the entire thing.
@@carag2567 That's a better scenario, sitting there watching box sets.
Martijn Hendricks removed the birds from every frame of the Hitchcock masterpiece as part of an art project called Give Us Today Our Daily Terror.
I gotta tell ya, it still looks pretty exciting.
Reddit sent me here. It’s lovely, I think I’ll stay.
Enjoy terrifying bouts of ominous silence! Violent waves of nothing! And shocking scenes of ennui. It’s like every Jim Jarmusch movie.
To be fair - nothing and no one SHOULD be in cinemas now.
Total crack up. This is hilarious! And yes, your Hitchcock impression is really quite good.
I think Hitchcock is great but I never liked the birds. I try every 5yrs or so to rewatch it to see if I can get into it. Nope. So this vid I like lol
This is what non-stand users see
It's Hitchcock himself speaking?!
*ADORABLE*
How fun! I live near Bodega Bay, and this is the best version of The Birds I've ever seen.
This reminds me of M. Knight S. movie *The Happening* lol
Just a bunch of people acting like Democrats.
Stupidest comment here. They could act like republicans, with their bigoted, racist speech, or how about all the times they tried to overturn the election? Or how about trump being the cause of covid and the mess we are in? So stfu.
@Strange Wayfaring Stranger Thank you for letting us know you are posting the stupidest comment here.
Been to the school house. There is nothing but rolling hills around it. Hitchcock and his movie magic. :-)
'A town of people deathly afraid of nothing in particular' sounds like a strange depiction of an anxiety disorder.
that's the genius of Hitchcock. you can remove important elements from his movies and the movie will still remain as intense as before
You, sir, are a mad genius! SUBSCRIBED!
This is brilliant.
I just had 2 post this on the HITCHCOCK facebook page... Brilliant Funny
Just replaying the movie in my head but without the birds.
-Melanie shopping for nothing in a store that specializes in empty cages and then buying one for Cathy...with nothing in it.
-The guy who owns the farm (can't remember his name) dying from pecking out his own eyes.
-Annie giving up her own life to save Cathy on the porch by being attacked by the vast, empty nothing.
-Mitch boarding up the house so the absolute nothing can't get inside.
-Melanie going upstairs to the room where nothing got in, being mauled by it, and then having a nervous breakdown over nothing.
-The terrified mother in the diner bitch-slapping Melanie for absolutely no reason.
This is high quality Hitchcockian suspense here.
nothing is certainly scarier than birds
G'mork explains The Absolutely Nothing: "It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it."
That's oddly satisfying...in an almost ASMR kind of way. Thank you! ♡
Kudos... this made me laugh so hard I cried. This is just hysterical. Thanks so much for the laughs.
Brilliant! Thank you! 😁
Reminds me of Monty Pythons(peace be upon him) "suddenly ......, nothing happened"!
TBF a film where everyone starts going insane and believe that they're going to be killed by something they can see sounds like a terrifying concept if done correctly.
I thought M. Night Shyamalan did a film similar to what you descripted.
Ah, my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie: The