{"id":6442,"date":"2007-04-11T03:10:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2007-04-11T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T07:10:11","slug":"kaw-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/kaw-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaw (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"7129359.3[1]\"<\/a>The film \u201cKaw\u201d is a remake of \u201cThe Birds\u201d before the actual remake of \u201cThe Birds\u201d arrives to shit on us from above in theaters. I love monster movies with funny names, don\u2019t you? There\u2019s \u201cSuperCroc,\u201d and there\u2019s \u201cSssssssss!\u201d and then there\u2019s \u201cKaw.\u201d The title of this feature just isn\u2019t the problem of Wilson\u2019s film, because that\u2019s just my good old humor. In spite of Wilson\u2019s evident wisdom of pacing and tension, the birds here just don\u2019t frighten me as much as I assumed they would. What\u2019s the point of having Ravens if you\u2019re not going to exploit their penchant for being creepifying? Otherwise, just bring on a humming bird and call it \u201cKaw.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t always buy the damage of the bird attacks. I mean is it really possible for a bird to eat someone at the wheel of a moving vehicle? Is it possible to be pecked to death? Paris Hilton has proved otherwise. I was never too sure about that little device. And yet, \u201cKaw\u201d is surprisingly competent. Director Sheldon Wilson and writer Benjamin Sztajnkrycer just manage to get the tension down. Sure, it\u2019s not as tense and nail-biting as \u201cThe Birds\u201d because when it came to tension, Hitchcock had the formula down, but \u201cKaw\u201d is awfully tense when it wants to be. In a small town, a young man and woman fight off winged threats from above that are gathering to inflict horror on them. Not by shitting on their windshields and shoulders, but by pecking their eyes out. Yes, I\u2019ll keep saying it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a remake of \u201cThe Birds,\u201d pure and simple. But hell, that doesn\u2019t take away from the quality of the story. Sean Patrick Flannery and the like all pull in considerably good performances convincing me that this threat is there and it is real. I bought into this Raven Invasion (Look I made the title for the next killer bird movie!) and I sat, with eyes un-diverted, watching and waiting for these winged bitches to strike mercilessly. One of the better performances is from Stephen McHattie, who plays an eccentric bus driver named Clyde who experiences the bird attacks first hand and is now stuck on the road with three girls and a bus that won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

McHattie pulls his performance off well, and he damn near stole the movie from everyone else. Flannery and Booth are very good as the couple experiencing the raven attacks on different parts of the town. Wilson never over-develops their relationship or romance, so any emphases on character is left solely for the basics, and their raw performances. As for the sub-plots, Sztajnkrycer manages to keep the film at a tight pace, with different sub-plots that are fascinating. Flannery\u2019s character is stuck in town at the mercy of the ravens, McHattie has to figure out how to get off the road, and Booth accidentally discovers the source of the Raven attacks.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the explanation? Well, I\u2019ll leave it up to you to discover, but in the end I bought it, and I was intrigued. \u201cKaw\u201d is an atmospheric little killer bird movie that works and works well. And Wilson finds new ways to make these Ravens the difficult bastards they have the potential to be. They\u2019re cannibalistic, they throw rocks into windows, and they make these people\u2019s lives pure hell. And I enjoyed it. Oh you see? Here I was sitting here with my whacking stick preparing to tear \u201cKaw\u201d a new one, and I ended up enjoying it. Damn Sheldon Wilson and his talent for atmosphere and suspense, damn him and his great killer bird movie to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The film \u201cKaw\u201d is a remake of \u201cThe Birds\u201d before the actual remake of \u201cThe Birds\u201d arrives to shit on us from above in theaters. I love monster movies with funny names, don\u2019t you? There\u2019s \u201cSuperCroc,\u201d and there\u2019s \u201cSssssssss!\u201d and then there\u2019s \u201cKaw.\u201d The title of this feature just isn\u2019t the problem of Wilson\u2019s film, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,477,570,678,1013,1087],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-horror","tag-k","tag-monsters","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}