In Louisiana, a soldier returning from Vietnam finds his wife in bed with her lover and he kills him, her and a couple of friends, but he is attacked by a bird and he loses his eyes. Years later, the bodies have not been found and the former soldier is the specialist in birds Dr. Fred Brown (Robert Vaughn),living in a house nearby the swamp. When a group of college students is assigned for a research of a woodpecker near extinction, they head to Dr. Brown's house to get some tips of how to find the rare bird. Then they drive through the swamp where they find the house where the murders happen and they decide to stay there. During the night, weird things happen and they are attacked by the victims of Dr. Brown.

"Zombie 5 – Killing Birds" is a stupid, gore and messy collection of clichés. The acting is terrible and histrionic; the screenplay is imbecile with mistakes in the continuity; the soundtrack is annoying and inappropriate for a horror movie; and the sets are very poor. Indeed it is an awful end of career of Robert Vaughn. My vote is three.

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Not much of a film. A group of students head into Louisiana territory to find the Ivory Bill Woodpecker before it is declared extinct. They meet up with a blind vet (Robert Vaughn) who had killed his wife and her lover, something that is not a crime in the South. He was blinded by birds. And that's about it as there are ghosts at the old house, visited by the group.

Was that a zombie an hour into the film? Film is a real stinker.

Good luck in trying to make sense of this one: it's a total mess, even by '80s Italian horror movie standards. The free-wheeling, nonsensical plot goes something like this:

Vietnam vet Fred Brown (Robert Vaughn) returns home to Louisiana to find his wife in bed with another man; after killing the adulterous couple, and his in-laws, Fred disposes of the bodies, cleans up the scene, and frees the family's pet birds, after which he is attacked by a hawk, which claws out his eyes.

Years later, the blind ex-soldier's crime somehow remains undiscovered, and he now spends his time at home studying bird song. Hoping to locate a rare species of woodpecker, a group of Louisiana college students pay the old man a visit, and, following his advice, they set out for the swamps. After stumbling across a decomposing body in a car (which they opt to ignore),they finally stumble upon the old, deserted house where Brown's murder spree took place and decide to spend the night, firing up a generator in the basement.

During the night, the friends experience a series of strange, inexplicable occurrences, including grisly hallucinations, after which they are attacked by several zombies and a supernatural force (which pulls one unfortunate victim into the gears of the generator). In the morning, the two remaining survivors escape the house, meeting Brown as they leave. The blind man enters the dilapidated property, where he is attacked by a flock of birds. The End.

None of this follows any kind of logic, there's no explanation for the supernatural goings on, the violence is bloody but unconvincing, and the ending incredibly weak. Although not an official part of the Zombie series, it's easy to see why Killing Birds was given the alternative title of Zombie 5: it's every bit as random, badly acted and shoddily directed as Zombie 3 and Zombie 4—unfortunately, it's also a lot more boring.