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Hitchcock Fans Flock to California: Bodega Bay is proud to say it's going to The Birds. The picturesque California town north of San Francisco recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the site where Alfred Hitchcock filmed the thriller where gulls, ravens and other fowl inexplicably ravaged the community.

Brian Larson of the Bodega Bay Lodge and Spa even played up the "moody" skies along the bay's coast and omnipresent beady-eyed vultures awaiting their turn to rule the roost.

"Tourists haven't been attacked in a long time," Larson says.

Bewitching Appeal: When The Blair Witch Project became a surprise hit, fans began flocking to Burkittsville, Md., and local officials complained that thrill seekers were snatching up road signs and vandalizing tombstones.

The obsession reached such heights that the mayor offered this exasperated message on her voice mail: "This is the town office, Burkittsville, Maryland. … If this is in regards to The Blair Witch Project, it is fiction."

But Burkittsville, a tiny hamlet of 200 people, wised up to the fast-buck mentality. Previously unemployed locals quickly found a place in a burgeoning tourist business, selling $7 versions of the rock-and-stick totems featured in the movie and "witch-chaser" bags filled with smooth stones, garlic cloves and lavender sprigs.

A Bloody Good Workout: The Hermosa Beach Community Center in California, still a magnet for the community, was the very spot where Sissy Spacek was doused with pig's blood in Brian DePalma's 1976 horror flick, Carrie. The gym today looks very much as it does in the film, and undoubtedly serves as a good reminder to the children: You shouldn't tease other kids.

Buck Wolf is entertainment producer at ABCNEWS.com. The Wolf Files is published Tuesdays. If you want to receive weekly notice when a new column is published, join the e-mail list.