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Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

I am a Civil War buff. And when I read that Dead Birds is about some Civil War times, I was thrilled. But what a shame this movie turned out to be! So boring that mere 90 minutes drag like all 900 hours. No tension, no real horror, no action. The beginning? seemed to be a real western, but then, when a horror genre crept in, a boredom crept in, too. and in galore quantity. I was deeply bored. Patrick Fugit and Henry Thomas are cool actors, here they are flat and unimpressive. Languid tempo and very very silly hooks make this good beginning very sour and then vapid and bland. I merely made myself watch this long piece of real trash to see the end. Which was another huge failure, too. Sad, but I nearly loathed the time I had wasted on that silly film. My recommendation - not recommended. To anyone. Even for laughs. It is so dead boring that it cannot be funny.

This has such a basic plot that I'll knock it off straight away so I can spend more time on why this sucks.After some rogue soldiers from the 1800s (1863 so we're told), rob and slaughter some Southern soldiers depositing some cizzash in the local bank. This is the best scene in the movie, although unfortunately it really has next to nothing to do with the rest of the film and takes only 5 minutes. It is quite violent and has a couple of good gory effects.The best part of the 1800s? Crazy facial hair, it seems most of the extras in the town were chosen based upon the length and complexity of their face fuzz, after this scene though none of the primary characters rock much more than carefully trimmed stubble.Right, so the bad guys, 5 guys and one babe go on the run to Mexico, only night falls and they decide to stop off at an abandoned house on the edge of a cornfield. As they are coming to the edge of the cornfield something happens that I still don't really get, they are rushed by a… thing, and one of the guys uses lightning reflexes to blow it away.(Best as I can explain it looks like a smaller version of the Alien : Ripley baby from Alien Resurrection.) The rest of the movie is set over the ensuing night in the old house, and it is so horror cliché that I won't bother explaining it.After this finished I thought that it was an 1800s poor man's version of Event Horizon, a crew are trapped in a confined space, and the scariness that ensues sorta makes them turn on each other.Now a couple days later I think it is more like an alternate version of The Descent, where the first half is an unsettling caving trip gone wrong, but the second half is almost totally different, like a monster movie. Only the first half of Dead Birds is ordinary and the second half totally blows.When you finally learn what the hell just happened it does make sense in a nonsensical way, but you won't care because it is so poorly executed.I thought everything and everyone looked a little too clean in the opening town scene, you know, a clean neck and some strategic streaks of dirt on one cheek. That was a concern, if the filmmaker decides not to bother with an authentic look, maybe they'll be lazy in building suspense and delivering shocks, and let boring horror movie clichés do all the work for them, and they're all here; - A Flashback/Delusion/Dream, call it what you will, is the scariest part of the movie.People jump at shadows and all scares are comprised of something jumping towards camera accompanied by a loud music stab.Someone is missing, let's spread out and look.It is now maybe two nights since I watched Dead Birds, usually I have some scrawled notes with maybe a half page of points and reminders, and I let my memory do the rest, in this case I already can't remember the last two thirds of the film.Final Rating – 5.5 / 10. It's just not that good.If you liked this (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com

1863, Alabama. A motley group of thieves rob a bank and seek refuge in an old abandoned house that's haunted by angry and lethal demonic spirits. Will any of them survive the night? Director Alex Turner, working from an original, intriguing and unpredictable script by Simon Barrett, relates the arresting story at a slow, yet steady pace, does a sterling job of creating and sustaining a deeply spooky and unsettling mood which becomes more increasingly eerie and upsetting as the story unfolds, offers a flavorsome evocation of the period setting, stages the shock scenes with considerable skill and flair, and punctuates the narrative with startling moments of grisly violence. This film further benefits from fine acting from the sturdy cast: Henry Thomas as levelheaded leader William, Patrick Fugit as the soft Sam, Nicki Aycox as the fetching Annabelle, Michael Shannon as treacherous troublemaker Clyde, Mark Boone Junior as the scraggly Joseph, and Isaah Washington as the proud Todd. Muse Watson has a chilling minor role as an evil occultist. The grotesque creatures are genuinely freaky and scary. The special effects are excellent and convincing. This picture earns bonus points for its admirably hard and gritty no-nonsense tone: The gradual build-up and powerful sense of dread and unease culminate in a positively harrowing last third that's capped off by a perfectly grim surprise downbeat ending. Steve Yedlin's polished cinematography and Peter Lopez's shivery score are up on the money sound and effective. But what really makes this movie so good and commendable is a welcome and invigorating element of freshness and creativity: The story isn't cut and dried, there's a compelling ambiguity evident throughout, and the neat theme about greed and mistrust bringing about the thieves' ruination gives the picture some extra substance. Offbeat, inspired, and well worth seeing.

This movie is just awful - do not waste your time!I watched it after reading the synopsis and reviews on IMDb. Normally both are right on and I'm not usually disappointed.Not the case with this movie.I've seen amateur stuff better than this. Not only is it cliché' - they didn't even get the clichés' right.The acting is unbelievably awful as well. They all seem to be sleepwalking through the entire movie, especially the one female part. They're all totally ambivalent about the "scary" signs that should tell them to turn back.And, by the way, the title is "Dead Birds" yet only ONE dead bird is ever shown and, even then, it's completely inexplicable. "Scary" music builds and builds and builds with no real pay-off.Do yourself a favor - if you want to watch a scary movie no one's ever heard of, watch "The Other."