10 Rip-Off Horror Movies (That Messed Up What They Copied)
1. Birdemic: Shock And Terror
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds from 1963 still holds up as a chilling watch several decades after its release.
The movie where the world's avian population suddenly decides to go mental, The Birds scarily frames mankind as being totally at the whim of nature, powerless to stop the animal kingdom should it ever decide to rise up against our dominance.
2010's Birdemic: Shock and Terror attempted to emulate this great picture and failed. So, so hard.
The plot of Birdemic doesn't matter, neither does the ability of its actors, its script, or its cinematography. Just one thing matters about this film - it has the worst special effects in cinema history.
The birds don't look remotely real. They don't look remotely three dimensional. They look like somebody made a flash animation running at 1 frame per second over the top of some live action footage. They are stunningly rubbish.
Birdemic could have resurrected Lawrence Olivier and it would still suck. The unbelievably bad CGI makes it a laughingstock from start to finish. The cruddy performances and boring plot really don't help matters.
This certainly isn't a Hitchcock film. In fact, it's barely a film at all.