Review:Flu Bird Horror (2008)

Posted by phillip in Reviews on September 22nd, 2008

Once in a great while, a movie is made that defies all odds. Poor production value, foreign locations that look like foreign locations, and bad acting. Yet it somehow gels together to make a masterpiece. Well this is one of them.

Flu Bird Horror is about a group of juvenile delinquents that are at a reform camp which happens to get attacked by pterodactyl looking-like things. Did you know that The Avian flu can morph ordinary pigeons into dinosaurs? Me neither. Any whooty…these delinquents get picked off one by one in the forest as the local ranger (Lance Guest, Last Starfighter, Holloween 2) desperately looks for these kids. At least its original.

Like a fine crafted Matrushka Doll, Flu Bird Horror (ah-chooooo, Gazuntight!) is truly a horror within a horror within a horror. The first horror is that it was ever written. Well maybe it was never written…maybe there was never a script at all. The second horror is that they actually tried to pass Romanian farmers off as Americans. This might have worked except they gave these actors a speaking role…very bad move. The third horror was that Leigh Scott (Hillside Cannibals, Transmorphers), the writer/director, convinced the executive producer that this was all going to end up well…or at worst, the exec producer might get laid if he ponied up a few G’s.

Now that we got that out of the way, there were some positive notes. It was only a feature and not a mini series. No real dinosaurs were harmed during the filming of this movie. And lastly, the two young performers, Sara Butler (A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser) and Jonathon Trent (Transformers 2, Downstream) were pretty good. Despite some less then flattering comments about the cast by would-be, wanna-be critics, this ESL (English as a second language) challenged script actually was translated well by these two actors. Kudos for taking lemons and…well…don’t take anymore lemons in the future. You two are better than that.