The year is 18 hundred-and-something. A small group of Confederate soldiers led by William plan and execute a brutal bank robbery in rural Alabama. William along with his girlfriend Annabelle, younger brother Sam and three other men head off to a pre-designated hideout, an abandoned plantation estate which belonged to an old war buddy of William's, now dead. Upon their arrival, they shoot and kill a strange looking animal which has emerged from the corn fields surrounding the house, and discover a human body hung up like a scarecrow. Despite the morbid warnings, they settle in for the evening. Soon, each member of the gang begins to experience odd disturbances; ghostly voices and violent images of events which took place in the house years before. One by one, the gang succumbs to the deadly forces within the house.
This really isn't a bad little haunted house film. The cast is very good, the setting of the abandoned plantation house is genuinely spooky and the gore is pretty nasty. The storyline is a little cloudy and doesn't make a whole lot of sense and it may move a little slowly for some, but all in all, Dead Birds is better than most of the stuff sitting on the shelves in the horror aisle.
This really isn't a bad little haunted house film. The cast is very good, the setting of the abandoned plantation house is genuinely spooky and the gore is pretty nasty. The storyline is a little cloudy and doesn't make a whole lot of sense and it may move a little slowly for some, but all in all, Dead Birds is better than most of the stuff sitting on the shelves in the horror aisle.