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[deleted] t1_je4pfja wrote

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almstlvnlf t1_je4tjxv wrote

Same! Still don't really want to look at it

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[deleted] t1_je4vt0m wrote

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MulciberTenebras OP t1_je4ypf5 wrote

That film celebrated its 60th anniversary yesterday (March 28, 1963)

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almstlvnlf t1_je8eizm wrote

Never watched The Birds. Grew up with my parents telling me stories about how they saw it in the theater, walked outside after the movie and pigeons were flapping around in parking lot. Freaked them out so much that they passed that stuff to me!

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Airy_mtn t1_je65qz3 wrote

Same! The only others that scarred me for life were The Fly and Bad Seed.

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turdferguson3891 t1_je4r7ai wrote

Me too. I don't know what Opium those filmmakers were smoking back then but it must have been good.

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Juan_Carlo t1_je5idck wrote

Yes. Everything about OZ did, though. Even the Lion and the Tin Man and the Scarecrow. The makeup just looked so old and creepy and unlike Disney's anthropomorphized cartoon animals.

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bcanada92 t1_je5d81x wrote

Same here. There's some uncanny valley shit going on with their faces. They looked a little too real— especially for 1939.

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drwiki0074 t1_je61hm6 wrote

I thought I was the only one. Horrible. I mean, thinking back to it, I think it was just the way they looked, but the idea of monkeys that can fly is probably not that scary in real terms. I mean you'd have to worry about them maybe dropping a deuce on the hood of your car sometimes which would be pretty nasty. Ozzy Osbourn would approve though.

They'd probably put seagulls and pigeons to shame.

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NJdeathproof t1_je62wq1 wrote

My mom is terrified of them - she still won't watch the movie to this day.

She also got freaked out by the hourglass scene in the witch's castle.

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Affectionate_Tap6416 t1_je6ex2v wrote

I never knew they existed till i turned 40 because my mum covered my eyes when they came on. Only realised when my friend asked for me to make a flying monkey outfit for her dog! And they frightened me at 40!

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