The film also showcases the most inventive use of sound mixing—or in some cases, the lack thereof—that I’ve ever heard in a film (and I’ve experienced quite a few Manos Hands of Fate/War in Space extravaganzas). CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), © 2020 Macmillan | All stories, art, and posts are the copyright of their respective authors, The Shock And Terror Of It All. Walk around downtown Half Moon Bay. Having experienced Birdemic: Shock and Terror, as well as the illuminating Blu-ray bonus features, I realize that Mr. Nguyen categorizes this film as a “romantic thriller,” yet despite the astute Hitchcockian elements, the film struck me as more of a science fiction romance film. A generation that was taken from Vietnam before it could lay roots, and then transplanted to a land where the soil was rich but alien, never quite nourishing. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Camera movement. Apparently waving them wildly in the air is kryptonite to malevolent birds. This film shares many of the same themes and plot devices as James Nguyen's earlier film Julie and Jack. Hopefully the James Nguyen fun doesn’t stop here.

Birdemic can be watched through Netflix or ordered from Amazon. If the title of “Birdemic: Shock and Terror” does not immediately tell you what kind of movie it is, its teaser trailer should do the trick. Thu Jun 2, 2011 5:09pm 3 comments Favorite This. First of all, the film features such iconic characters as “Tree Hugger,” “AK-47 Ex-Army Dude,” and “Old Guy on a Bridge.” You have to see these gurus in action to believe them. We publish poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, visual art, and more.
SF-wise, Birdemic: Shock and Terror tackles issues like global warming and nanotechnology applications in solar power panels. Thank goodness Severin Films released this with a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray disc so I could hear every dropout with crystal clarity. And he has tasseled penny loafers.

So move over, Hitchcock, and take your old skool birds with you. Before sitting down, he tells us one last thing, “What I want the most is for my movie to make you all think, really think, long after it’s over.”, It has been days now since I’ve last seen Birdemic and I am indeed still thinking about the film.

Controlling spectators’ attention and perceptions. What is meant by this is that you must first understand the significance of narrative construction, style, and other film forms and how they operate as a formal system if you’re intending to subvert.

helps spread the word about diaCRITICS. And develops it. Then please take the time to rate it (above) and share it (below). I’m trying to imagine following the kids of Nightmare on Elm Street as they attend school, discuss homework, watch some TV, and do some chores… only to have a Freddy Kruger finally show up 40 minutes into the movie. Feathered out-of-towners pester passers-by in James Nguyen's “Birdemic: Shock and Terror.”. The man is endearing, enthusiastic, and above all, wholly grateful. (Note to Syd Field: it’s time to update your workshops.). The movie, Mr. Husney said, looked “like a Super Nintendo game,” adding, “It was, like, the funniest thing I had ever seen in my entire life.” More fascinating was Mr. Nguyen himself, a Silicon Valley software salesman whose family fled Vietnam in 1975 before the fall of Saigon and who grew up in the United States enthralled by movies like “Somewhere in Time” and Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet.”, “But romance alone is not enough for me,” Mr. Nguyen said. From their rather skewed perspective, some of these winged monsters are larger than houses! Thank you so much for being here!”. [1] Haus (1988), The Human Centipede (2009), The Room (2003), Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958), just to name a few. Nguyen notices my gaze and eagerly makes his way towards me. Nguyen strived to do the absolute best with what he had… it just wasn’t much. What I love most about this film can be summed up in one word, and it happens to be the same word that James Nguyen provides as an answer (the best answer I have ever heard from a director) to one audience member’s probing and appropriate question: “James! win an iPod and other prizes!]. Suddenly the sky is filled with birds: badly animated birds, out of proportion to the dwellings below, that barely flap their wings as they glide by. The brilliance lies not in his intentionality, in the Godardian sense, but in his sheer ignorance of the concept and principles of film form and his brazen execution despite said ignorance. Once inside the theater lobby, I see a man who I can only assume to be James Nguyen himself. And if Birdemic: Shock And Terror (2008) is any indication, he’s kicking ass and taking names. She lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is a graduate student of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA. Intensity of images. Birdemic: Shock and Terror boasts a few other elements worth mentioning—elements worth their weight in gold, I might add. “Maybe it’s meant to be like that.”. Frankly, it builds more tension for when the titular birds finally make their illustrious appearance much later in the film. James Nguyen, the 43-year-old writer and director of “Birdemic,” a would-be thriller about an avian rampage, will be the first to tell you that it is far from a perfect film. James Nguyen is 44-years-old. But you can still download BOTH volumes FOR FREE AT ARCHIVE.ORG! Our founding editor and publisher is Viet Thanh Nguyen. “It’s like a really weird-looking kid, where you just go, ‘Wow, he’s just cute.’ There are elements to his face that don’t work in any other place but on that face.”.

diaCRITICS is a blog that showcases voices and stories from writers, artists and culture-makers of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora on and from all shores. Unfortunately, Replica has yet to find distribution (boo hiss). It is February 25th and Cinefamily is hosting a celebratory one-year anniversary screening  since the Los Angeles premiere of Nguyen’s Birdemic: Shock and Terror. Director James Nguyen is the new maestro in town.

Nguyen performs the pomp and circumstance of “ARE YOU READY?”, pumping his audience up for the spectacle they are about to witness. And so be it.”, Indeed, he is already at work on his next feature. If “Birdemic” were simply a cheaply made horror movie, of which hundreds are made each year, Mr. Delahaye said, “you’d just be watching something with grand ambitions not being able to achieve them.” But in this case, he said, “the fact that it’s low-budget didn’t have any effect on what he was trying to do.” He added, “Because who knows what he was trying to do?”. I know immediately to check any aesthete sensibilities at the door and prepare myself for the unmitigated public inebriation of my fellow spectators. According to the head programmer, they have screened this film more than any other at their theater. I certainly couldn’t. James Nguyen, the 43-year-old writer and director of “Birdemic,” a would-be thriller about an avian rampage, will be the first to tell you that it is far from a perfect film. Occasionally an aggravated fowl breaks away from its clip-art flock, plummeting to the ground and exploding in a similarly unconvincing cloud of smoke. These scenes continue for more than a minute, until the ambient noise is punctured by menacing screeches. Bear this in mind.

I can tell he wears this configuration un-ironically. Did you like this post? James Nguyen’s, ‘Birdemic: Shock and Terror’: Our new, crazy movie obsession. To withdraw your consent, see Your Choices. But, as he said recently, “if it was perfect, in every angle and the visual effects and everything, maybe it wouldn’t be where it is today.”, Since “Birdemic” was discovered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival — where Mr. Nguyen brought it anyway and showed it in bars after it was rejected by the festival’s selection committee — it has become a cult hit on the midnight movie circuit. They’re just happy to eat the meal that was provided to them.”. But above all, he is a self-professed Hitchcock savant. You have entered an incorrect email address! Larger-than-life auteur Alfred Hitchcock releases his 55th feature film, The Birds, which is then to remain his most abstract, irrational, and indisputable masterpiece among his other canonical films in his oeuvre. Directed by James Nguyen ; Quotes Edit Notes Edit. Attend the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival.

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Birdemic 2: The Resurrection is the sequel to James Nguyen's abysmal film, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, a film that is allegedly an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.This film focuses on Rod's friend, Bill, who is an indie film director trying to make a film. It’s a type of existential horror that Schreiber writes about and, like any horror story, there’s a feeling of dread that what haunts us will continue despite the story’s ending.

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