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Dead Birds (Dol)
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781404972889
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 1404972889
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Running Time: 91 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Editorial Review:
When a group of criminals on the run after a bank robbery take refuge in an abandoned house, they have no idea what evil they have come upon. Isolated and presumed deserted, the house is anything but safe...As the night wears on and a thunderstorm grows outside, each member of the group begins to have visions of the atrocities that occurred within the house, haunting it forever. Voices in the well, visions of mangled bodies and clawing under the stairs plague their waking hours. As the fear in the group begins to grow and the supernatural forces in the house start to manifest themselves, the group turn on each other and exact the wrath of the soul trapped within the walls.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Watch carefully.... VERY cool easter eggs! (no spoilers)
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This movie is so creepy. I notice the other reviewers have used the same word. This makes it different from several other horror movies, in that it does not rely on blood and guts to get under your skin. It does it by using your mind against you.
The movie takes place in a time-period not normally picked for horror movies. This ups the ante for a 5-star rating, just for being different.
The acting is good, adding a woman and a free black ... Read More
Rating:  - the worst Horror movie ever
boring! And what is happening? Nothing. Tese people go into that house and the whole time they are looking in the rooms and searching around the house but nothing happens. Some people disappear, that`s all. Don`t buy it. Go for The (NEW) Hills have eyes or saw but forget about this one.
Rating:  - Thrushed into the Limelight.....(!)
`Dead Birds' is an interesting and unpredictable horror movie. It's a haunted house thriller, with ambivalent twists and turns and a cock-sure sturdy ambiguous ending. It's well acted by a cast of (to me!) unknowns, has scary effects and drips with American Civil War sweaty intensity.
The characters are unsympathetic. The `hero' kills a child in the `Wild Bunch' style opening scene, and thereby opens the obligatory can of worms without whose opening, nothing in a horror movie can happen.
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Rating:  - Scattershot...some buckshot hits its target. 2.5 stars
Not too bad for a low-budget flick. It does have its share of atmosphere, the Civil War/Western side is a nice touch.
The problem for me was the murky development of the storyline explaining the demonic forces at the Colonial Mansion. The whirlwind culmination of events once the background story was revealed left me wanting.
There is an all-to-brief expositional mishmash of what the demonic creatures are and who and how they orchestrate events? Everything "ghost-like" (in the ... Read More
Rating: - Suprisingly Great Film!
I didn't know what to expect when first I watched this film. I was impressed by the low-key acting through the first of the film. This helped set an eerie tone for the rest of it. The kids were truly horrifying and the way they were shot, I about jumped out of my skin. Had to pause and step forward to get a good look at them. Even the end was tolerable. A rare thing in these kinds of films.
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