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Dead Birds
2004
· Movie
· 91 min
D
MEANRANK
50/100
Every rating
41–56
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 41, highest is IMDb on 56.
See the most agreed on films →Towards the end of the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
Details
- Director
- Alex Turner
- Writer
- Simon Barrett
- Studio
- Dead Birds Films, Silver Nitrate
- Released
- 22 April 2005
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.5M
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