Ever wonder what Birdemic would have been like if James Nguyen had had a typical B-movie budget, a modicum of talent, and Young Indiana Jones? Wonder no more! This movie has a lot of people standing around flailing (though not with coat hangers) while birds fly around them. Sometimes, they die from this. Sometimes, they're fine. There is no visible difference between fatal and cosmetic attacks, except how important the character is to the rest of the movie. In the reverse of your typical horror movie, the characters in this movie all seem to know they're in a bird-themed horror flick -- right from the start. Before they have any reason to believe there's anything out of the ordinary about the birds, every character who sees a bird freaks the hell out.

It's Sean Patrick Flanery's last day as small town sheriff before moving to the big city for his wife's career. It starts with a mysterious body in a barn, dead of unclear causes and eaten by birds. It continues with a creepy school bus driver who was shooting off his shotgun at birds. Meanwhile, Young Indy's wife goes out to the farm of the local "Mennonite" farmers (written mostly Amish, except the filmmakers couldn't afford a horse, so they call them Mennonites so they can drive cars). She's there to say goodbye, but no one is around and the elder is acting really creepy and orders her off the farm. She spies on them instead, sees them acting even more creepy, decides she's actually in a Mennon-ish serial killer movie, and falls down a well. Three high-school basketball players, including a Mennon-ish girl and their coach, get on the creepy bus driver's bus to go to a clinic in the next town over. Some random tourists get killed by ravens. Ravens attack the town, killing Indy's deputy. Indy's wife is still down the well. It's suddenly night. The bus breaks down on the way back to town. There are many raven attacks. Indy rides to the rescue. Indy's wife makes it out of the well. There is a last stand, wherein Creepy Bus Driver finally realizes that you have to use area-effect attacks against swarms. It helps, but not enough. The ending...is most Crummy.