I was terrified of The Birds as a kid and once when my daughter was a teen we rented it on a visit to my mom’s house. We both told her how great it was. In these days of CGI it was cheesy and not scary at all! We all laughed and talked about how time and technology change things!
There was one movie with Lon Chaney and Vincent Price about vampires that was so scary I couldn’t sleep afterward though.
“She says she was also told that live birds would have to be used in some scenes, and she recounts spending five days with live birds being thrown at her and attached to her body. She finally reached her breaking point when a bird attached to her shoulder almost pecked her in the eye — after the exhausting experience she says she spent an entire week in bed.”
CGI doesn’t carry such real life risk