Killing birds - uccelli assassini (1987)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Claudio Lattanzi

Writers:

Sheila Goldberg (dialogue)
Sheila Goldberg (story)

Release Date:

13 July 1988 (France)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A group of students goes into the woods to study birds, and soon the dead begin to rise to devour the living.

Plot Keywords:

Ornithologist | Computer | Blind | Hanged Boy | Boy Strangling

Cast

Lara Wendel	...	Anne
Robert Vaughn	...	Dr. Fred Brown
Timothy W. Watts	...	Steve Porter
Leslie Cumming	...	Mary (as Leslie Cummins)
James Villemaire	...	Paul
Sal Maggiore	...	Brian (as Sal Maggiore Jr.)
James Sutterfield	...	Rob
Lin Gathright	...	Jennifer
Brigitte Paillet	...	Steve's Mother
Ellis Paillet	...	Steve's Grandfather
Nona Paillet	...	Steve's Grandmother
John H. Green	...	Dr. Green

Also Known As:

Dark Eyes of the Zombie
Killing Birds - Raptors (Italy) (video title)
Raptors
Zombie 5: Killing Birds (USA) (DVD box title)

Country:

Italy

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Belgium:16 (video rating) | USA:Not Rated | Italy:VM14 | France:-12

Filming Locations:

Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA

Company:

Filmirage

Trivia:

The house featured in the beginning of the film is the same used in E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà (1981) (aka 'The Beyond').

Movie Connections:

References E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà (1981)

Complete waste of time

Terribly bad acting is what annoys you here right from the start. The acting, along with the soap opera-like music, completely ruins the film before it even properly begins. I don't know by what standards the teenage protagonists were cast but they're NOT attractive and they sure don't succeed in making themselves appear believable. Killing Birds suffers a little too much from awful sound editing and low budget production values to make it worth renting. Luckily it got released as an unofficial sequel in the Zombie-series otherwise it was doomed to disappear into oblivion right after its premiere. At least now it enjoys a modest cult-reputation. Completely undeserved, because any other Zombie film contains more gore in the opening minutes than this production features throughout the whole playtime. The plot may have had some potential (the great Alfred Hitchcock already knew birds had something eerie forty years ago) but you're simply not interested due to the annoying characters and the tensionless surrounding. One to avoid at all costs.