No Spooky Halloween Bats here, but Alfred Hitchcock's Birds yes!

Didn't this haunted door (assuming you've seen it around) remind you of something? Even though these are bat cutouts...


... I had scenes of the movie The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock flashing up.


Filmed (1963) in Bodega Bay, a small coastal town, 50 miles north of San Francisco...


... where in fact the air can be disconcertingly thick with squawking and chattering (being a center of Bird Migration)...


... and described as genuinely frightening, The Birds is the perfect Halloween movie. Time to watch it again!


Tippi Hedren was having a laugh here...


... it is funny, well, these raven cutouts are. You can print them out here (pdf file), then display them in glass vases. Spooky!


And The Tides Wharf Restaurant, in which the locals shelter from the bird attacks, is where Tippi Hedren has returned over the years...


... to meet her fans and sign autographs, you can read about it on Kathlene's Bodega Bay Life Blog. I wonder if her daughter Melanie Griffith ever went along?


And what do you think of the Tippi Hedren Barbie doll? She doesn't look frightened at all!