‘The Birds’ Barbie

I absolutely love it when pop culture spins back in on itself. A great example of that is here:

http://www.barbiecollector.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=L9633

It’s a Barbie-themed, um, well, sort of a little playset - Barbie in a nice Tippi Hedron outfit with avian menaces swooping about her head - in honor of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film The Birds.

This is perfectly cool and nice and everything, but I’m wondering: why The Birds?  Sure, it’s a classic horror film, one that’s creeped me out ever since I was a little kid (especially the scene where the old man’s corpse is discovered with its eyes pecked out).  Is it an anniversary of the film or something?

And, one wonders: what’s next?  Barbie as Norman Bates’s mom in Psycho?  Barbie in The Exorcist, with a button on her back that spins her head around?  Barbie as Barbarella - Barbiarella?  The mind reels.

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