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The Birds II: Land's End (1994)
Directed by Rick Rosenthal, Alan Smithee
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Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more picturesque about their new, seaside home… that is, except for the increasing number of aggressively behaving birds.
Rated R | Length 86 minutes
Actors
Brad Johnson | Chelsea Field | James Naughton | Jan Rubeš | Tippi Hedren | Stephanie Milford | Megan Gallacher | Richard K. Olsen | Sylvia Harman | C.K. Bibby | Philip Loch | Jack Riel
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/31/2022 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 4 stars |
| (Average) 4 stars |
Viewing Notes
Really having a hard time understanding why this movie was ever made! It’s not good, of course, but I think it suffers even more because people naturally compare it to its predecessor, Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS.
Tippi Hedron is almost completely wasted in this exercise in tedium. The best actors in the film are the family’s two little girls, who are actually great, and the old lighthouse keeper. I can’t really blame the actors though because the writing doesn’t give them much to work with.
This would be a fun movie night watch though.
Alan Smithee really directed some shit films! Yeah, that’s a joke. If you only watched this movie by the director, it’d be hard for you to comprehend that Rosenthal also directed the second best Halloween film, HALLOWEEN II. Looks like this film may have driven him into directing TV, which is where he’s spent almost all of his time after this debacle was released.
Might be fun to do a marathon of Alan Smithee-directed films! Maybe “fun” isn’t the right word.
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