Screened as part of NZIFF 2010

Birdemic: Shock and Terror 2008

Directed by James Nguyen

James Nguyen’s insanely bad eco-horror, inspired by The Birds, Apocalypse Now and An Inconvenient Truth, is already a legend. “We confirm that it’s the worst-film-ever experience of the season and that you need to see it.” — Vice

USA In English
92 minutes DigiBeta

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Photography

Daniel Mai

Editor

Kim Chow

Music

Andrew Seger

With

Alan Bagh (Rod)
,
Whitney Moore (Nathalie)
,
Whitney Moore (Nathalie)
,
Adam Sessa (Ramsey)
,
Janae Caster (Susan)
,
Colton Osborne (Tony)
,
Danny Webber (Rick)
,
Mona Lisa Moon (Mai)
,
Catherine Batcha (Becky)

Elsewhere

Move along Ed Wood Jr, there’s a new bad(ass) filmmaker in town: his name is James Nguyen and he is the perpetrator of this hilarious cinematic mind-fuck. At the Sundance Film Festival he promoted Birdemic in a van decorated with ugly birds and paper signs that read ‘Why did the eagles and vultures attacked [sic]?’ before renting out a local theatre to show his disasterpiece. The word of mouth from that screening catapulted Birdemic into the pantheon of the world’s most celebrated worst movies overnight. Birdemic struggles in vain to depict a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is suddenly and inexplicably attacked by birds. The film’s dramatic failings may be due to a cast failing to act their way out of paper bags but it’s more than likely to be the animated GIF file eagles and vultures that dive to the ground and explode into flames. Comes with my personal 100 per cent guarantee to make you pee your pants with laughter. — AT