Zombie 5 – Killing Birds

(Joe D’Amato; 1987)

(Media Blasters/Shriek Show)

A soldier comes home from who cares where to find his wife/girlfriend/ho in bed with some guy, so he proceeds to shit the guy’s throat with a rubber knife. He then lets the woman wake up to find her lover dead and run around screaming until the soldier slits her throat with a rubber knife. Then birds beck out his one eye, which makes him blind in both. Enter some college where some stupid students are going on a trip in New Orleans to find some woodpecker. So the stumble upon this blind guy but now he’s old and he happens to be the soldier that was pecked. Some sort of bird expert now. So they wander off to the house where the rubber knifing was done and proceed to walk around getting scared and yelling out each other’s names. Then some zombies come and kill people. Then the blind guy shows up and is eaten by birds. The End.

What a piece. The trailer makes it look half decent but this film is utter shite. There’s some ok gore sequences mixed in with really bad ones, and there’s no plot that I can make head nor tails out of. Don’t bother.

Mono.

The print is fine. Widescreen.

- Trailers for other Shriek Show films.

- Stills gallery

Standard DVD keep case.

Sound: 4

Picture: 5

Special Features: 1.5

Packaging: 5

Film: 2

Overall Rating: 3

(Rating scale is out of 10, with 1 being the worst and 10 the best)