Killing Birds (1988)
Killing Birds also known as Zombie 5 is an Italian horror film from 1988 directed by Joe d’Amato. Starring Lara Wendel and Robert Vaughn.
Plot
In Louisiana, a soldier returning from Vietnam finds his wife in bed with her lover and he kills them both as well as a couple of friends. Then he is attacked by a bird and he loses his eyes. 
Years later, the bodies have not been found and the former soldier is now a bird specialist (Dr. Fred Brown) living in a house nearby the swamp. 
When a group of college students go to the swamp on an assignment to research a species of woodpecker that is almost extinct, they head to Dr. Brown’s house to get some tips of how to find the rare bird. 
They drive through the swamp where they find the house where the murders happened and they decide to stay there. During the night, weird things happen…
Notable scenes
Guy dismembered by generator.
Making of Killing Birds
The house featured in the beginning of the film is the same used in The Beyond (1981).
Just like “After Death” (1989) a.k.a “Zombie 4”, which has no connection with its predecessor, “Killing Birds” (which has no connection to “Zombie 3” or “Zombie 4”) was released as “Zombie 5” in various countries only to capitalize on the success of “Zombie 3” (1987).
Although the direction is credited to Claudio Lattanzi, various sources claim that Joe D’Amato, the movie’s producer and cinematographer, was the one who actually directed the movie.
Our view on Killing Birds
Killing Birds is one of the less known movies of Italian exploitation-movie veteran Joe D`Amato. Maybe not as sick as his masterpieces “Buio Omega” or “Emanuelle in America”, but still creepy and full of horror. The film could be seen as a mixture of John Carpenter´s The Fog and Lucio Fulci‘s City of the living Dead. 
Robert Vaughn plays a blind and mysterious scientist is the and it turns into a Zombie flic! Exploitflix so bad it‘s good flic.
