| View Larger Image | Flu Birds | Video On DemandStarring: Sarah Butler, Clare Carey, Serban Celea, Gabriel Costin, Lance Guest
Directed By: Leigh Scott
Also With: Kenneth M. Badish (Producer), Mark Moran (Producer), Brad Southwick (Producer)
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| | Binding: | Video On Demand | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 89 minutes | | Studio: | First Look | | Release Date: | August 25, 2009 | | Genre: | Horror | | Synopsis: | During what is supposed to be a quiet camping retreat, six teens find themselves being hunted by giant birds infected with a mysterious virus that has morphed the birds into deadly predators. When the teens flee from the woods to a nearby military bunker on the outskirts of town, the flock of infected birds descends, spreading the killer virus they carry throughout the nearby town. One by one, the townspeople succumb to the virus, but a small group of them and the teens are able to find impenetrable shelter???at least for now. Will the teens be able to make it out of the town alive or will they end up as bird food? | | Sales Rank: | 40,664th |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 8 reviews)
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Gut-busting by M (Gnawing away at your reality)  2 Stars
August 20, 2009
If you're looking for a horror flick that is SRS BSNS, stay away from this. But if you're looking for a movie to rip on with friends, then you'll laugh at this. The premise seems amusing enough, but the delivery is so bad it's almost hysterical. The plot, acting, and special effects are terrible. A couple of the actors DO try hard and make genuine effort, but most of them - especially the girl with the pink streak in her hair - were awful. The girl in question stares off several times - fiest when the flubird is outside her tent, and her expression is comical. Later on when the fort gets blown up, she's standing outside with the others and while they're talking, she has that slack-jawed stare again.
The symptoms of the flu (the holes in the flesh) were actually the creepiest/scariest thing in the movie because they were the most realistic special effect. I shudder to think of these holes on my skin, but the flubirds are hysterical. They're just cheap rubber puppets that are given no explanation. They just appear out of nowhere, with no origin. And the ending completely fell flat on its face. The only reason I watched this was because it was on the list of available videos on Redbox and I figured, hey it sounds cheesy and might be worth a laugh, and it's only a buck!
And one buck was just about right for this movie. I feel sorry for the better actors in this movie, now they're stuck with Flubirds on their resumes.
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Like a car wreck by Nathan Christian (New Stanton, PA USA) 2 Stars
May 27, 2009
you just have to look.
The cover is misleading...I thought this film might be along the line of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (Collector's Edition)but I was wrong! Instead the bird's look like mutant rubber rabid chickens. The film is really a bad b-movie with alot of hopeful young actors trying to get acting jobs on their resume.
If you are looking for trash you really don't have to think about or really like, then this is trash you should pick up.
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Great Fun, great cheese! by L. C. Dixon (Dallas, TX)  5 Stars
May 12, 2009
This isn't a movie in which you should be thinking about top-quality, Oscar-worthy acting and plotting; it's a gem of a flick: hilarious, scary, with freakishly absurd special effects. I could see a MST3K treatment of "Flu Birds" somewhere down the line. Seriously, great, great fun.
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please don't rent by PROFESSOR MO-JO (NASHVILLE)  1 Stars
October 19, 2008
This is an awful movie. I wish I hadn't rented it. It was so bad I could barely watch the whole thing. What a waste of time.Do yourself a favor....don't bother.
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Leigh Scott strikes again. by Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH) 1 Stars
October 10, 2008
Flu Bird Horror (Leigh Scott, 2008)
I can't believe I sat and watched a movie with the grammatically monstrous title Flu Bird Horror all the way through. Without fast-forwarding, even. Like that other infamous Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie, The Bone Eater, I couldn't look away-- I had to find out just how awful this thing was going to get. And from that perspective, it fulfilled my expectations quite well. There's no depth at which it couldn't find a way to sink even lower. Fortunately or not, this monstrosity has yet to show up in IMDB, and I erased it from my DVR as soon as it was over, so no interesting stuff about the cast, crew, etc., except that yes, this is the same Leigh Scott who was responsible for the similarly awful Hillside Cannibals.
Plot: a bunch of mutant condors threaten a bunch of mutant (well, okay, not really) kids from juvenile hall out in the woods on a retreat. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Scott started out his career working for Roger Corman's monolithic genre studio Concorde Pictures, and it certainly shows here; character development is nonexistent (even when there are tantalizing clues thrown into the mix; female lead Ava says at one point that she's in juvenile hall for arson, but aside from another couple of sentences of dialogue, it's never mentioned again), plot is paper-thin and more of an excuse for some amateur gore effects. Technical stuff is competent, as one would expect from a project with a director of Scott's experience (this is-- at least-- his fourteenth movie), but nothing to write home about. What really hurts this otherwise mediocre picture, though, is that the characters, flat as they are, still manage to be entirely unsurprising; every time you expect a plot twist, there it is. No one ever does anything unexpected (including Scott; I'm not sure on this one, but given that he's been the screenwriter on most of the Sci-Fi Originals he's directed, I assume that's also the case here). Give this guy a really good script and I have little doubt he could turn out a serviceable movie, but whether that will ever occur is anyone's guess. *
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