Last night I rented Flu Birds and even though I passed out drunk in the first ten minutes, what I saw was pure bliss. Flu Birds is another great-looking, under the radar horror film from First Look Studios, the company that also brought us Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django and the upcoming Stephen Baldwin film, Sharks in Venice. Flu Birds is already available of DVD but you will have to wait until January 27th for Sharks.

Other films of interest coming from First Look are Ghouls, Storm Cell, and Contract Killers.

Oh yeah, and from Nu Image Ninja.

“A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.”

I’m not saying all these films are or will be great, I’m just saying they may be worth a look, unlike Asylum’s War of the Worlds 2.

Watch the Flu Birds trailer below.