Killing Birds (1988)

Directed by

Claudio Lattanzi, Joe D'Amato

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, zombie film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

3.7 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In Louisiana, a Vietnam veteran returns home, kills his family, and is blinded by a falcon. Twenty years later, a group of students searching for a rare woodpecker encounters him and faces zombie attacks.

goryatmosphericpulpunsettlinggrungycampycreepyviolent

What happens

Killing Birds is a 1988 Italian horror film starring Lara Wendel and Robert Vaughn. The film is set in Louisiana where Fred Brown returns from the Vietnam War to find his wife in bed with her lover and slaughters the whole family sparing the newborn son. After the massacre, he is attacked and blinded by a falcon. Twenty years later a group of students led by Steve and Anne meet Brown, and begin their search for a nearly extinct breed of woodpecker and come across grisly occurrences including boys being killed by vengeful zombies. The film was first released in July 1988 in France, and in August in Italy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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