“Birdemic: Shock And Terror” is a movie with a budget so low, it makes “Robot Monster” look like a big Hollywood production. “Birdemic” was directed by James Nguyen, who is arguably the successor to Ed Wood (“Plan 9 From Outer Space”) as both directors took their hysterically bad films seriously.

“Birdemic” is pretty much a rip-off of “The Birds” as it follows people trying to survive from countless attacks by birds. The first half of the movie follows a guy by the name of Rod (Alan Bagh) and a girl by the name of Nathalie (Whitney Moore) before we get to the truly ridiculous scenes where the birds attack.

The acting in “Birdemic” is truly awful. There is not a single actor that delivers a line in a way that is remotely reminiscent of a human being. However, the birds are so bad that you can easily forget how terrible the acting is. The special effects for the birds are so cheap and nasty that they look as if they were created by school students during their first computer animation lesson. I’ve seen terrible special effects in many movies but “Birdemic” reaches new lows so deep underground that is doubtful that Hell itself is beneath it.

You may laugh at “Birdemic” but I think that it is perhaps so bad that it goes further than the amusingly bad stage. The audio editing, the script, the characters, the special effects, the continuity and the story are all done so awfully that is hard to imagine how somebody could make a film much worse than this. Sure, “Birdemic” isn’t quite as painful as “Troll 2” or “Trigger Happy” but it certainly isn’t far behind those abominations. As clear as the warnings against it are, some people are likely to watch “Birdemic” out of curiosity; it is an experience… the movie equivalent of a car crash.