{"id":793,"date":"2010-05-13T05:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T11:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2010-05-13T05:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T11:21:43","slug":"birdemic-shock-and-terror-flies-in-may-21-and-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/birdemic-shock-and-terror-flies-in-may-21-and-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdemic: Shock and Terror flies in May 21 and 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you liked The Room, you will be in for a new late-night treat: Birdemic. <\/p>\n<p>Here's what the N.Y. Times said: \" Since \u201cBirdemic\u201d was discovered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival \u2014 where Mr. Nguyen brought it anyway and showed it in bars after it was rejected by the festival\u2019s selection committee \u2014 it has become a cult hit on the midnight movie circuit. Crowds in Austin, Tex., Phoenix and Los Angeles have thrilled to its stilted dialogue, substandard production values and young heroes who defend themselves with coat hangers. As \u201cBirdemic\u201d arrives, it has spawned a discussion about why, of all the Z-grade movies that are made each year, this particular one should find favor with audiences. What has made Mr. Nguyen a latter-day anti-genius to rival Edward D. Wood Jr., whose 1959 horror dud \u201cPlan 9 From Outer Space\u201d became legendary for its countless defects? \u201cIt\u2019s something unexpected,\u201d Mr. Nguyen said. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s meant to be like that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you liked The Room, you will be in for a new late-night treat: Birdemic. Here's what the N.Y. Times said: \" Since \u201cBirdemic\u201d was discovered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival \u2014 where Mr. Nguyen brought it anyway and showed it in bars after it was rejected by the festival\u2019s selection committee \u2014 it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}