Be glad your husband is only henpecked.
The idea of regular birds conspiring to kill every human in town. Birds attacking everyone left and right, and they can't be outrun.- When Mrs. Brenner goes to check on the farmer, only to find the windows are shattered open and the farmer is dead in his bedroom, his eyes pecked out...
- The zoom-ins to his corpse, especially with the lack of Scare Chord.
- When Mrs. Brenner runs back into her car, her window is cracked in a way it wasn't when she entered...
- The scene where a whole flock of sparrows swoop down the chimney and attack everyone in the living room.
- The iconic scene of the ravens just sitting there... all of them... sitting there on the playground jungle gym waiting for the school kids to come out...
- The attic scene. Good grief... Just the fact that despite Mitch boarding every door and window, the birds still managed to find a way into the house.
- The birds pecking through the door, trying to get into the house.
- They were pecking from the walls. They were literally about to actually enter the house had they not retreated from the attack.
- When Melanie glances out of the telephone booth and sees a fellow citizen with his face dripping with blood from the birds' attack.
- The ending.
The birds simply... stop. We never know what caused them to attack, why they stopped or if they are going to start again, or even if it's just an isolated incident. An alternate ending has a lot of birds on the Golden Gate Bridge. - Poor Annie. When Mitch and Melanie find her, she looks like a rag doll flung across her porch steps.
