The Birds

Melanie Daniels, a wealthy San Francisco socialite with a taste for mischief, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner in a pet shop, where he plays a prank on her. Determined to get back at him, she follows him to the quiet town of Bodega Bay, where he spends weekends with his mother Lydia and young sister Cathy. Upon her arrival, Melanie is attacked by a seagull, the first of many increasingly violent bird attacks that soon terrorize the entire town.

A biology teacher and his wife take their two children to an island summer house to enable him to write an important thesis while getting over the death of their son. While they are there, large flocks of birds appear and begin to attack individual humans for no apparent reason. The town mayor (who is also the local doctor) refuses to believe that birds are responsible for the spate of injuries that are occurring but, before long, he has no option but to believe as the birds begin attacking larger groups of people.