Zombie 5: Killing Birds - 1988

 Funny how this listed year of Zombie 5 is before the listed year of Zombie 4 huh?  Almost like they're not really true sequels...

Also known as Zombie Flesheaters 4, naturally.

This Zombie entry is almost universally titled Zombie 5: Killing Birds, and I have seen and heard the title before, though not seen the actual movie until now.  The legacy of this one is a little bit mixed as it was attributed to different directors and was shifted around a little bit more than some of these.

You can't really tell though, cause I'll tell you straight out this is better than Zombie 4.  This has better music, is more quickly paced, has better effects, and even has a couple very cool sequences such as the scene where the guys are all trying to escape in a van and a zombie is holding onto a girl by her head.  This movie also has Robert Vaughn playing a blind guy, who is intermixed into the plot and plays a role in the zombies existence in this movie.

There's a somewhat loose connection to birds as well, but honestly you can just tune a lot of this stuff out and watch the zombie violence, which is fun and nonstop. This movie is definitely a step up and a fun one to watch regardless of it's Zombie connection.

From here it's going to get complicated.  Oasis of the Zombies, Vengeance of the Zombies, Nightmare City and Burial Ground are sometimes labeled with the Zombie name.  So luckily I don't have to watch those.  Looks like I'm jumping to the Blind Dead series, as sometimes those carry a Zombie name, and that's kinda nice cuz I have wanted to see that series.  But last few times I looked for those, they weren't online.  So we'll see.