10 Horror Movies Actors Wanted You To Hate

The Birds is one of the films that popularised horror cinema from the 1960s onwards, and has earned its place as one of Alfred Hitchcock's best known features. Focusing on a series of sudden, violent and often fatal bird attacks, the film generated a newfound fear of our flying friends in the public and turned model Tippi Hedren into a star.

Unfortunately for her, during her time on set she developed something of an enmity with the lecherous Hitchcock, a notoriously boisterous director. Hitchcock's unwelcome advances caused friction between himself and Hedren, and in her telling led him towards several unnecessary technical choices, such as in the infamous bedroom scene where he unleashed live birds on her.

Hedren hated her time on the film, she hated the director, she hated the film itself, and she wanted audiences to hate it -- both because of her experience and for the sake of the audience empathising with her. Ultimately, she kept a stiff upper lip, saw it through, and now reigns supreme in a solid gold piece of cinematic history, which was hated in the best possible way by millions, and whose subtext about the struggle between actor and director gives it a whole other dimension.