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| Credited cast: | |||
| Jessica Lee Keller | ... | Maddy Stern | |
| Lindsey Sporrer | ... | Taylor | |
| Greg Evigan | ... | Harvey Sullivan | |
| Leslie Easterbrook | ... | Dr. Slater | |
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Dillon Cavitt | ... | Justin |
| Evan Miller | ... | Brett | |
| Sarah Joy Byington | ... | Paige | |
| Heath Allyn | ... | Dale | |
| Mark Hanson | ... | Russell | |
| Craig Nigh | ... | Keith Stern | |
| Sam Stinson | ... | Trent | |
| David Lee Hess | ... | Gas Station Clerk | |
| Carlton Caudle | ... | Gatekeeper | |
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Clint McCreery | ... | Dog Wrangler |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Spencer Greenwood | ... | Compound Guard #1 | |
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When Maddy Stern discovers her father has gone missing during a routine birdwatching excursion, she and her college pals trek out into the wilderness to find him, only to end up in a wealthy scientist's desolate ranch aviary, where they encounter a pair of giant, hungry terror birds believed to be extinct for centuries. Written by Jake Helgren
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Given the title of the movie, "Terror Birds", you know exactly what you are getting yourself into when you sit down to watch a movie like this. But still, I did so, because once in a while a couple of these creature features actually turn out to be surprisingly good and entertaining...
..."Terror Birds" wasn't one of those times!
While the movie definitely was entertaining enough, for what it was of course, then it was also horrible generic in terms of how movies of this particular type goes. It followed a very straight forward script, but also one that was so mundane that it sort of felt like it was running on autopilot, and it offered very little to the audience.
The idea of the movie was adequate, although it didn't make sense about the acquisition of the birds or how they would come to be alive. But hey, science facts is hardly the crucial ingredient in a movie such as this. But at least serve the audience something that passes as just an ounce of believable or agreeable.
Creature features such as "Terror Bird" needs to have either realistic practical effects or really good CGI effects. "Terror Birds" had none of this. The CGI animated birds were just not believable, it looked too fake. And the CGI animated blood in some scenes was just atrocious to bear witness to. And bad CGI in a creature feature drags the movie down, far, far down.
As for the acting in "Terror Birds", well... First of all, I wasn't familiar with anyone here, and I consider that to be a good thing. I enjoy watching unfamiliar faces on the screen, because then I don't associate them with previously portrayed characters from other movies. However, the actors and actresses here had so little to work with that they were indeed fighting and losing a steep uphill battle.
I managed to sit through "Terror Birds", as it was sort of pseudo-entertaining, albeit a less than mediocre movie experience. It is not a movie that I will be watching a second time, that's for sure.