Wick presents Bad Film Club - Birdemic - Shock and Terror

"So bad it's... still really bad!" - Wickipedia!

Birds - our innocuous feathered friends who fly high in the sky, eat the odd worm, s**t on your car and keep Kate Humble and Chris Packham in business, right?  WRONG! 

Partly inspired by Hitchcock's The Birds, and featuring a cameo by Tippi Hedren (Melanie in the Hitchcock classic), Birdemic: Shock and Terror is the story of a platoon of eagles and vultures attack the residents of a small town.  It's not known what caused the flying menace to attack; many people die, but two people manage to fight back.  Will they survive Birdemic? 

Some critics have called Birdemic: Shock and Terror the worst film ever made.  Despite (or perhaps because of) its shortcomings - terrible script, special effects, terrible everything, really - it is rapidly attaining cult status worldwide. 

The film's writer/director/producer is James Nguyen, an American Vietnamese immigrant who is a Silicon Valley software salesman by day. Nguyen travelled to the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 to promote the film himself, handing out flyers to passers-by from his van, adorned with stuffed birds and fake blood, and blaring bird noises from its stereo.

His ‘on the fly' strategy worked - producers have since spent more money marketing the film than Nguyen spent making it!

"A Cheesy Horror Turkey Becomes a High-Flying Cult Hit." - New York Times

"Birdemic's hypnotic charm remains through Nguyen's secret weapon: sincerity." - THE VILLAGE VOICE