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A lot of reviews criticize this movie and claim the zombies are only in the last few minutes. I just want to correct that and confirm that there are zombies through out the last half of the movie. The rest of the reviews about the bad acting and loss of plot are pretty spot on.

This movie is possessed by an agonisingly slow pace, unlikable characters, and an annoying plot involving a bunch of college students looking for a rare species of cardinal in the Louisiana bayou. The film is ambitious, I'll give it that. The screen writers throw in a bunch of horror cliche c*** that goes nowhere (hero the son of...that guy, some "historical" stuff pertaining to murders, facts about birds), you know, the kind of stuff that's supposed to come together at the end to prove something. The conclusion is especially terrible. It wraps up no loose ends and you are left wondering what the hell happened and why the hell the entire movie happened at all. It is a wholly unsatisfying experience with no redeeming qualities. I fully recommend avoiding The Killing Birds.

Robert Vaughn plays a Vietnam vet recently returning from the war only to find his wife in bed with another man. So he kills both of them and their friends before a bird takes his eye out. Flash forward two decades, and a group of students go off to study birds. Horrid acting, unsympathetic characters, lackluster plot, lack of action and insipid plot all combine to make this one to miss. Some day in the future when aliens visit Earth and see the landfills filled with films like this, "BASEketball", "Joe's Apartment", "Pootie Tang", "CHUD 2", and "Witch Academy", they'll get the wrong idea of Vaughn's worth as an actor. My Grade: F DVD Extras: Interview with Robert Vaughn; Picture Gallery; behind the scenes of "Flesh for the Beast" (yea, i have no clue why it's on this disc either); Theatrical Trailer; Trailers for "Flesh for the Beast", "Black Demons" and "Zombi 2"

Where the hell were the killing birds? There were birds, yes, but they didn't kill anybody! Argh! There is one zombie shuffling around in this film, though, killing off teenagers in some empty house. But don't ask me why or where that zombie came from, because once again, there's no explanation for any of the events whatsoever. So why on earth am I rating this fantastic film actually 3/10? Hmmm... Let me think. Well, the opening scene is pretty solid. It sets a certain dreary mood (and those teenagers haven't arrived yet at that point). Ehrr... It's got somewhat of an atmosphere to it, this movie, somehow. Uhm... What else? Huh... Oh, yes: It's Italian! There you go: That's 3 points. Yay!

Killing Birds (1987) * (out of 4) Incredibly bad, cheesy Italian horror film that's nothing more than a rip of Night of the Living Dead (again). A group of college kids travel to the Louisiana bayou for research and come under attack by zombies. There's also a side plot with a knife welding maniac and killing birds but none of this makes any sense. The gore footage is pretty good but the rest of the film is a real drag. Robert Vaughn has a small role in the film but adds nothing. On DVD under the title Zombie 5 Killing Birds. Joe D'Amato directed some of the footage.