Several sequences are homages to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), for example, the image of all the children in the island's village square ready to attack Tom and Evelyn, and the final escape from the island. 'Chicho Ibáñez-Serrador' originally wanted Anthony Hopkins to play Tom. Director Cameo: ['Chicho Ibáñez-Serrador' ] The man that Tom asks about the noise in the village.