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Way South Of Dixie...
A band of confederate soldiers, led by Henry Thomas, rob a bank, killing everyone inside and out, and head for a plantation-home hide-out. DEAD BIRDS has an exquisite atmosphere of building dread, that starts right at the beginning. The ruthless robbers are soon thrust into a supernatural nightmare, and are ill-equipped to handle the terror that awaits them! One by one they meet the horrifying inhabitants of the house, as the dead reach for the living, and reveal their secrets. DB is oldschool scary w/ some surprising gore elements tossed in for added impact. Check out those things creeping around in the cornfield! Yikes!...

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This B movie earns a C
The movie started out interesting and I have to admit I did enjoy watching it through. The setup was fair but about the mid-point things just start to go onto cruise control and become typical horror movie stuff. For me it felt like the movie started out with its own uniqueness and then that fell away later leaving this movie with nothing to set it apart. In addition, there were are couple of convoluted scenes and plot/story holes that I felt did not get resolved. <
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>The movie opens with a group of men (well, one woman too) stealing some bags of gold coin from a bank in some southern locale (I'm sure it said where the story was supposed to be based in the opening somewhere) killing a large number of people in the process, many of the deaths unnecessary. Some reviewers have commented that this sequence was gruesome but I found it phony (don't worry, the special effects do get a little better). <
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>So, after the robbery the group takes refuge in some abandoned plantation house surrounded by an eerie corn field. The movie stops in a couple parts to tell you how they knew of this plantation and who it belonged to, but I never found that story to be fully developed. Did the person that told them about the plantation tell them so in passing or did he expect them to eventually take refuge there? If the latter, why did he want them to go there? <
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>Anyway, things are not as peaceful as they seem. Soon we meet ghostly manifestations that want to do harm to our bandits but always do so off the screen so we are left with an idea what happened to them but we don't actually get to see it. The motivation behind the ghosts threatening behavior is made known by one ghost in specific who tells one of our hapless robbers everything you had been asking yourself up to that point in a succinct and straight-forward "I had to do it" speech. Hmm, OK, so there is all the mystery gone. Now it is just a matter of killing people off and there isn't anything particularly original and scary about how that is done. I admit the beast in the corn field both at the beginning and then end was pretty cool though. <
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>As far as acting goes, I thought it was on par with my expectations of what it should be. The gentleman who also starred in "Almost Famous" (I'm too lazy to look up his name right now) I felt especially did a fine job. <
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>Overall, I wasn't impressed with the movie and didn't think it was the sleeper hit that much of the hype around it had led me to believe it would be.

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WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED.....
This movie sounded promising to me at first. <
>I was looking forward to the Civil War era setting and the atmosphere of the old plantation. <
>But I must not have read the other reviews closely enough. <
>I'm not a 'gorehound', and I found this film to be quite gory. <
>Showing victims being skinned alive and other graphic scenes are scary, but it's not the kind of suspense such as 'The Others', which I'm STILL trying to find an equal to. <
>The plot ending, which would explain exactly why the 'spirits' are there and why they're doing what they're doing - is hazy. And I don't understand what happened to the children. <
>I believe this could have been a film with more depth, if it hadn't been for all the gore.