Terror Birds is a Horror Film by Sean Cain.
One day, Keith Stern (Craig Nigh), a birdwatcher is in the woods for his usual thing, when he stumbles across an electrified fence. He scales it, and the next bird he sees is the last one.
Some time later, the birdwatcher's college-aged daughter, Maddie Stern (Jessica Lee Keller) gets worried when she realizes he's been away on his birdwatching expidition for far longer than he usually is. With the help of her friends (and one girl one of them is dating), she heads out into the woods he usually goes to to find out what happened to him.
They track him to the same facility he went to, and soon discover that the owners of the facility have the world's last two terror birds in captivity, and have been trying (unsuccessfully) to get them to breed and produce healthy chicks. However, now that the kids have discovered the facility, as well as what's been going on there, there's no way they can be allowed to leave alive.
The movie was released on March 8th, 2016.
Terror Birds contains examples of:
- Antagonist Title: The terror inducing birds in the title are the main antagonists of this film.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: the birds are depicted with clawed feathered arms instead of wings. While this was an actual theory about terror birds for a while, this had long since been disproving when the film aired.
- Counting to Three: Russell and Dale give the kids to a count of three to start running. A terror bird beheads Russell just before 3.
- Dwindling Party: People die in the movie left, right, and center until only two survivors remain.
- The End... Or Is It?: At the end of the movie, the adult terror birds have both been killed. However, they managed to lay some eggs, and the babies have survived to hatch.
- Feathered Fiend: The titular terror birds.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: The main characters consist of three boys and three girls.
- Groin Attack: Taylor gives Russel one in the gas station when he tries hitting on her.
- High-Voltage Death: Subverted: Dale runs into an electric fence, which stuns him long for a terror bird to kill him.
- Off with His Head!: The birds kill quite a few people in the movie by biting their heads off.
- Outrunning the Fireball: Maddy and Justin, running away from the exploding van.
- Take This Job and Shove It: Dr. Slater, after having had enough of working on the birds, makes it known she no longer wishes to continue working at the ranch. The owner decides to feed her to the birds in retaliation.
- Tastes Like Chicken: Joked about after the last terror bird is killed.
- Time Skip: After the intro showing the birds being released from the crate they were airlifted to the ranch from, the film then cuts ahead six months.
- Too Dumb to Live: Taylor, given a choice between an adjacent door and a run to the house, decides to run to the house because "I ran track". While she does actually make it to the house before the bird catches up to her, the door is locked.
- Tranquilizer Dart: Favored tool of the villain's henchmen, which provides Instant Sedation.
- Underwear Swimsuit: The five main protagonists strip down to their underwear to cross a river.
- Working with the Ex: Justin is Maddy's ex, and they end up as the last two survivors.
