Best movie of this year hands down!

Good concept, poorly executed.

Did you people see the same film I saw?

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

In Louisiana, a soldier returning from Vietnam finds his wife in bed with her lover and he kills him, her and a couple of friends, but he is attacked by a bird and he loses his eyes. Years later, the bodies have not been found and the former soldier is the specialist in birds Dr. Fred Brown (Robert Vaughn), living in a house nearby the swamp. When a group of college students is assigned for a research of a woodpecker near extinction, they head to Dr. Brown's house to get some tips of how to find the rare bird. Then they drive through the swamp where they find the house where the murders happen and they decide to stay there. During the night, weird things happen and they are attacked by the victims of Dr. Brown."Zombie 5 – Killing Birds" is a stupid, gore and messy collection of clichés. The acting is terrible and histrionic; the screenplay is imbecile with mistakes in the continuity; the soundtrack is annoying and inappropriate for a horror movie; and the sets are very poor. Indeed it is an awful end of career of Robert Vaughn. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): Not Available

Title: Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1987) Director: Claudio Lattanzi Cast: Robert Vaughn, Lara Wendel, Timothy W. Watts Review: This series of films, though released in the states as Zombie 3, Zombie 4: After Death and Zombie 5: Killing Birds have really nothing to do with each other. I have the sneaking suspicion that these flicks were separate zombie films filmed by the same production company. For their release here in the states on DVD, they were titled as sequels to Fulcis films to cash in on the fame of that first flick, except for Zombie 3 which really is a sequel but only in name since it has nothing to do with Fulcis Zombie story line. (oh I'm getting cross eyed over here) In Italy the last two films are known for their real names "After Death" and "Killing Birds".So, Killing Birds is the story of this Vietnam vet who upon his arrival from the war finds his wife asleep in bed with another man. The guy goes nuts and murders his own wife and her lover and his two neighbors who were babysitting his son (it wasn't their fault, they walked in on the murder). Not only that but the wacko war veteran killed his own pet eagle in the process. Then right there and then, another one of his pet eagles (the guy was a bird enthusiast before the war) violently attacks him and rips out his right eye. He is committed to a psycho ward and then the movie jumps a few years into the future and he is peacefully living in a home in the middle of nowhere, studying the mating calls of different types of exotic birds, that just so happen to live right out in his backyard. In comes these students who come to ask him about these exotic birds. How do zombies come into play in this flick...thats what you'll have to wait (really wait) and see.Surprisingly, this flick is actually better made then zombie 3 and 4 put together! The film looks great! Nice cinematography, nice lighting, cool direction. Unfortunately in spite of all these good things that the movie has going for it, the film is plagued with an incredibly boring storyline. For Christ sake, this movie is about a group of nerdy bird watchers! Yup, bird watchers! Nothing more exciting then that to make a zombie movie out of! Anyways, for the first HOUR of the film, nothing much really happens. These group of journalists and students just sitting around talking crap, doing nothing but searching rooms and opening doors, something I utterly despise on ANY movie! The major problem with this flick is that it disappoints on two levels. And they are not just two Etty bitty little things...they are two major problems. The film is called Zombie 5 yet for more then an hour there isn't a zombie seen on film. And when we do see a zombie, its the crappiest looking thing you have ever seen! Not only that...there's only Two whole zombies in the flick! Count em...TWO! So right off the bat when the timer hits one hour and you haven't seen a freaking zombie you start to think that there's something seriously wrong with this here picture.The movie is also titled Killing Birds, and here I am thinking, OK, heres something cool. Zombie Birds that go around killing people. I immediately got the idea of a zombie version of Hitchcocks "Birds" or maybe a more elaborate version of the zombie birds that we saw on Zombie 3. But Noooooo, this movie only has a bird attack at the beginning of the flick and at the ending. And thats it. The middle of the film is a lot of filler if you ask me.This movie doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a zombie flick? Is it a haunted house flick? Is it a killer zombie birds flick? I can honestly say that its neither of those! Its just a boring lifeless old mess of a movie with horrible performances and no zombies! To be honest, it just felt like more of a rip-off of the evil dead. There's these shots in which the camera runs through every single door slamming it open as it passes through just like on Evil Dead.To add injury to insult, the music in this movie is not just bad...its like going to the dentist and having him drill each and everyone of your teeth...TWICE! Seriously though, the music is like something you'd hear in one of those amateur wedding videos. You know, the kind they put in the background as you are watching stills of your best friends wedding. It just really blew and took the horror element right out the window. Which of course sucked big time."Starring Robert Vaughn" Ha! What a joke. He appears for five minutes in the beginning and for five minutes in the end....thats it! So there's yet another reason to feel cheated.So, the film looks great, technically I guess you could say this one looked better then all the others. But in terms of being scary or horrifying no way! Its slower then a slug parade. So watch it, but be warned you just might fall as sleep in the process! Rating: 1 1/2 out of 5

A couple of gory scenes are all that one can recommend from this bottom of the list Euro-zombie crapfest. First rule of spaghetti zombie movies should be that you have to include more than 1 or 2 zombies that only appear intermittently. Second rule is the story doesn't really matter cram your movie full of action and gore and everyone who likes these kind of movies will be happy. This movie tries to tell a very muddled story about this Vietnam vet getting revenge on his wife for screwing around and somehow turning her and the rest of his family all into zombies with the help of a bunch of birds who for some reason pluck the crazy vets eyes out or something like that. The problem is, as you can tell by that description, is that nothing really makes any sense and the more they try to tell a story the more stupid it becomes. Rule number 3 if your gonna make a stupid movie go for it. Go balls out and make it as dumb as you can. Then at least we can all get a few good laughs. The worst thing about this movie is of course the fact that it's a challenge to stay awake through most of the boring talky senseless parts which make up the majority of the movie. If you just want some gore watch the first few minutes for the murders then fast forward about 60-70 minutes until a couple of zombies show up and some dumb Italians in ugly 80's clothes get killed in ridiculous ways.

First of all this movie is not really Zombie 5 as someone pointed out Zombie 4 After Death came out a year later. Rather, both movies are just being repackaged and given new names simply to make some connection to Fulcio's Zombi 2. The only thing they have in common is that the dead do rise. I liked After Death a little, I thought it was a nice little zombie flick, nothing super great, but worth a look. This one, however, was really kind of tedious. Started promisingly enough with a man going on a killing spree after he finds his wife in bed with another man, but then it almost turns into a teen flick as we are introduced to the rest of the cast. The music even makes it seem like a teen comedy. Oh, and though it really is not clear at all there has been a significant number of years that has passed since the killings. Well we meet our young group of bird watchers and one annoying bus driver and a rather unremarkable reporter and all you can think is I hope they all die in extremely horrible ways. Not a good way to establish your characters in a horror movie is it? I mean when they aren't arguing over stupid stuff they are mumbling their lines so badly they sound like the parents in a Charlie Brown cartoon. Well they set off to find a bird which has not been seen in 20 or so years, and they run across a blind bird watcher. You'll know who he is and you will know what one of the gang of teens is right away so there is no real surprise at the revelation at the end. Well after they bother the blind guy they proceed to go bird watching get lost in the woods and find a house. They immediately set up camp here, despite the fact there vehicle is like just over the hill and if they would have continued searching for another 5 minutes they could have gotten out without anything happening. But hey, its a horror movie. Well finally some stuff starts to happen as people begin to die while their friends just stand there watching the person die. Of course they don't offer to help just standing there like idiots and then reacting well after the fact when it is far to late. My favorite being the guy who gets caught in a generator gear and gets ground up while this moron stands there not offering to help, then after the guy has had it he runs up stairs and says "they got him". I had to say, no they didn't the jerk got caught and you kind of let him die. As for the zombies they aren't in this movie much and they don't make much of an impression. The plot is practically nonexistent as there is no explanation for why any of it is happening besides the blind man's explanation at the end. Then you expect a rather grisly conclusion, but it never materializes and it just ends. Not a real zombie movie I say the makers were trying to make a movie more in the vain of "The Beyond". Of course that movie looks better, sounds better, and has better kills so there is no comparison there. I don't know maybe this was two movies that got bumped together. One film crew was making a horror movie, the other a teen romance, but they ran into each other and the teen romance people thought, a horror movie cool. That would explain the strange changes in the music in the first thirty minutes or so.