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Kaw (film) - Wikipedia

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Kaw
Promotional release poster
Written by	Benjamin Sztajnkrycer
Directed by	Sheldon Wilson
Starring	Sean Patrick Flanery Kristin Booth Stephen McHattie Rod Taylor
Music by	Steve London
Country of origin	Canada United States
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Gordon Yang
Running time	92 minutes
Budget	CA$1.8 million
Original release
Network	Sci Fi Channel
Release	2006 (2006)

Kaw is a 2006^[1]^[2] made-for-television horror film directed by Sheldon Wilson^[3] and starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Stephen McHattie, Kristin Booth, and Rod Taylor. An international co-production of Canada and the United States,^[1]^[4] Kaw is a Sci Fi Pictures original film. The film's plot, which follows a town besieged by hostile ravens, is similar to that of The Birds (1963)—which also starred Taylor—and has been called an homage or modernization of the older film.^[5]^[6]

Plot

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A shunned farmer attempts to warn his neighbors of an impending besiegement by crazed ravens. A small town sheriff and the trapped citizens of the town must band together to survive.

After one of the farmer's cows catches mad cow disease, it dies. Soon another cow catches it and dies as well. Instead of telling the authorities about it, the farmer chooses to keep quiet thinking he could handle the situation and for fear of the authorities killing his cattle. Ravens feed on the infected cow carcasses, and the disease begins to affect the birds as well. The farmer tries to burn the corpses in hopes to drive the birds away. However, it only makes them angrier until they decided to attack the townspeople.

Cast

Sean Patrick Flanery as Wayne
Stephen McHattie as Clyde
Kristin Booth as Cynthia
Rod Taylor as Doc
John Ralston as Oskar
Michèle Duquet as Betty
Ashley Newbrough as Doris
Gray Powell as Stanley "Stan"
Vladmir Bondarenko as Jacob
Megan Park as Gretchen
Emma Knight as Connie
Amanda Brugel as Emma
Wendy Lyon as Luanne
Sophie Gendron as Tricia
Jefferson Brown as John
Renessa Blitz as Rachel
David Gardner as Rolf
Alexander Conti as Tyler Whitmore
Jen Lawson as Tyler's Mother

Production

Kaw was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in December 2005, on a CA$1.8 million budget, with filming taking place on the same soundstage on which the television series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein was filmed.^[7] The production of Kaw utilized 11 live ravens from the Czech Republic, which were supplemented in post-production with numerous additional birds created using computer-generated imagery (CGI).^[7]

Reception

Andy Cooper of The Leader-Post gave the film a score of two-and-a-half out of five stars, writing, "It's not a classic, but the bird attacks are well done thanks to some very well trained ravens from Czechoslovakia aided by thousands of computer generated birds."^[8] Felix Vasquez Jr. of Cinema Crazed called the film "surprisingly competent", and an "atmospheric little killer bird movie that works and works well."^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b Tate, Marsha Ann (2007). Canadian Television Programming Made for the United States Market (A History with Production and Broadcast Data). McFarland & Company. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-7864-2745-1.
^ Bianculli, David (April 7, 2007). "Best Bets". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Fort Worth, Texas, United States. p. 14E. Rod Taylor, who starred in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Birds, appears in this 2006 Sci-Fi Channel movie as well.
^ Freitag, Gina; Loiselle, André, eds. (2015). The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul. University of Toronto Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-4426-2850-2.
^ "Kaw Movie". Kaw-movie.com. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
^ Vagg, Stephen (2010). Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood. Bear Manor Media. p. 227.
^ McMurry, Andrew (2018). Entertaining Futility: Despair and Hope in the Time of Climate Change. Texas A&M University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-1623496852.
^ ^a ^b Hays, Matt (December 5, 2005). "Revenge of the psychotic birds". Playback. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
^ Cooper, Andy (October 20, 2007). "'B' horror flicks are still good". Regina Leader-Post. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. p. B1.
^ Vasquez Jr., Felix (April 11, 2007). "Kaw (2007)". Cinema Crazed. Retrieved October 14, 2023.

External links

Sheldon Wilson

Films directed

Night Class (2001)
Shallow Ground (2004)
Kaw (2006)
Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Carny (2009)
Mothman (2010)
Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010)
Mega Cyclone (also known as Super Storm, 2011)
Killer Mountain (2011)
Snowmageddon (2011)
Cold Spring (2013)
Scarecrow (2013)
Shark Killer (2015)
The Unspoken (2015)
The Hollow (2015)
The Night Before Halloween (2016)
Neverknock (2017)
Stickman (2017)
Dead in the Water (2018)

Television miniseries directed

Between Black and Blue (2020–2021)