Killing Birds
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| Directed by | Claudio Lattanzi |
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Joe D'Amato Claudio Lattanzi |
| Written by | Claudio Lattanzi Daniele Stroppa Sheila Goldberg |
| Starring | Robert Vaughn |
| Music by | Carlo Maria Cordio |
| Cinematography | Joe D'Amato |
| Edited by | Kathleen Stratton |
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| Distributed by | Shriek Show |
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91 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Killing Birds (Italian: Uccelli assassini) is a 1988 Italian horror movie released in the United States under the title Zombie 5: Killing Birds; a.k.a. Raptors. Despite this title, zombies only feature in the last few minutes of the movie, and only one character is attacked by birds.
Fred Brown (Robert Vaughn), a soldier, returns to Louisiana from the Vietnam war to find his wife (Brigitte Paillet) in bed with another man, and kills them both and his parents (Ellis and Nona Paillet), only sparing his son. While he is cleaning his knife, a falcon attacks him and tears out his left eye and blinds him in the other. He ends up at a hospital where he says goodbye to the child before he is taken into foster care.
Twenty years later, a small group of college seniors, Steve Porter (Timothy W. Watts), Mary (Leslie Cummins), Paul (James Villemaire), Anne (Lara Wendel), Rob (James Sutterfield), Jennifer (Lin Gathright) and a local cop, Brian (Sal Maggiore Jr.), are assigned to locate the Green billed woodpecker, a rare species which will be officially extinct by 1992, four years after the current point of the movie. Steven and Anne meet with Fred Brown, who gives them a packet of information on the bird they’re searching for. The group makes the former home of Brown their “base” for as long as they’re searching, which turns up nothing on their first day other than a rotting corpse in an abandoned truck.
Upon settling in the house, strange occurrences, such as doors closing on their own and Steve seeing things that aren’t there, begin. These become more prevalent as time goes by, including a nightmare where Brown kills Mary in a similar fashion to how he killed his wife. While exploring the aviary she discovered earlier, Jennifer is chased into a tool shed by a zombie, only to be beaten to death by another that was hiding in there. Brian is burnt to death in a freak accident caused by the fuel leaking from the generator. Mary, who suspects it to be the man in her dream who killed Jennifer, finds her corpse.
The survivors make it to the camper only to realize that Brian had the keys. While Rob makes an attempt to hot wire the camper, a zombie attacks and kills Mary. They quickly abandon the camper to make a last stand in Brown’s house while Brown suffers a mild heart attack when he realizes what is happening. While trying to fix the generator, a door slams open and blows dust into the room, frightening Rob into running into the generator. His necklace is caught in the generator, and he is strangled to death when the wire cuts into his throat. Paul, who witnessed the whole thing and didn’t help Rob, tells Steve and Anne that it was the zombies who killed him.
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