Movie : Flu Bird Horror

Rating:

This is one of those movies that we know will be bad even before we watch it. But we sometimes need a movie that can be funny in it’s mistakes and all of its flaws can actually be a good thing. Well not this time. First of all the acting – which in horror films is rarely any good – here it’s plain terrible. I don’t think any of the characters are believable, and most of the cast seems like they’re not even native english speakers. Or maybe they’re so scared of the birds. Anyway – we have a simple setup – somewhere in the woods for no real reason a bunch of giant mutant birds that look like pterodactyls decide that they’re hungry for human flesh and start hunting people. And since they’re big and strong and well … flying it’s pretty easy for them. To add some spice to the flavor a bunch of kids that are on a reso-program end up in those woods too and are being haunted by the evil dinosaurs / birds / whatever. And to have it all cliche ridden we have a blonde, a mysterious and smart brunette, a black guy, a rebel type leader, a fat kid and a hiphop fan whose lines are actually the funniest cause it seems he had learned them from just one rap album. And I mean ALL of it.

But funny aside – can it be scary? No. It’s pretty simple, there aren’t even many sudden moments with loud sounds. They’re running, they’re hiding, the birds are flying. Killing some people on the way. Pretty standard. And the ending wasn’t really that creative either.

Sorry guys, your birds are as scary as a bunch of chickens. Sorry Sci-Fi (or SyFy now) had many better ones. This one lacks pretty much everything.