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The Story:
Birder is a gay thriller about Kristian Brooks (Michael Emery), a risky loner who gets his kicks murdering people as he has sex with them.
The film opens with Kristian fishing on a boat with another guy, David Sachs (Miles Crawford). He kills David and burns his clothes in a campfire. The film then cuts to Kristian filling up his gas tank as a young family in a car pulls in next to him. The father, David, and mother, Sue (Jill Jose), walk into the gas station, departing their teenage son, Ben (Taylor Petracek), in the auto.
While the parents are away, Kristian flirts with Ben. David and Sue come out and ask what’s going on, and Kristian calmly introduces himself, mentioning that he’s camping nearby. They make small discuss, with David telling him that they’re staying at a cabin not far from the camp site.
They leave, and Kristian goes to the site, sets up his tent and meets the other people staying there. Since this is a clothing optional area, many of the people are naked and open to casual sex. So, Kristian slowly befriends the other campers,
Nate Dushku’s gay erotic thriller Birder may not be particularly thrilling, or erotic, but it does provide an abundance of nudity on screen. Think of it as The Talented Mr. Strip-ley.
Kristian Brooks (Michael Emery, who place me in consciousness of James Norton with the voice of Jonathan Groff) is a drifter, lurking around campsites under the pretense of being a bird-watcher. When he makes his way to Lotus Cove, a clothing optional queer campground by a lake in New Hampshire, his handsome face and tight tattooed body make him an instant hit. As the sex positive campers indulge, Kristian starts to entertain his darker fetish…postcoital murder!
Queer film lovers are likely to be instantly reminded of Alain Guiraudie’s 2013 French thriller Stranger by the Lake, in no small part because this is a queer thriller… about a stranger… by a lake… but there is petty suspense to Birder. It’s hard to tell if Dushku is aiming for campy or creepy, but Birder hovers between both. While Amnon Lourie’s dialogue screams Showgirls, the shooting style and gorgeous natural setting, hint at a more serious, sinister vision.
Ultimately, Birder is a enjoyable ride and I cou
Synopsis
Consent is deadly.
A birdwatcher invades a nude queer campground on a remote lake in the Fresh Hampshire wilds. He wears whatever he needs to ensnare the locals in his dark fixation in this nightmarish erotic thriller. Consent has never been more deadly.
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צופה הציפורים, 鸟客, Autour du lac
Premiere
11 Aug 2023
- USA
11 Nov 2023
- AustraliaMelbourne Queer Film Festival
22 Apr 2025
- UkraineSunny Bunny LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Digital
17 May 2024
- UK18
25 Jun 2024
- USA
Physical
13 Feb 2025
- France12
Popular reviews
MoreMy friend always suggests the dirtiest movies for me to watch. Kristian was kinda sweet. He sure did that dad a solid.
I felt love watching something gay and sexy and boy oh boy did this deliver the gay and man oh man did this deliver the sexy.
Stranger By The Lake but make it American.
Short, sexy, HOT!! Prepare for an onslaught of 🍌🍌🍌
The lake is also stunning!!!
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Film Review: Birder is a grisly, queer chiller that offers refreshing conversation and genre thrills
“Live Free or Die”
So says the mention motto of New Hampshire, something that some people take a little too seriously, especially those within the realms of Nate Dushku‘s Birder, a grisly, queer thriller centred around an enigmatic serial killer and the nudist camp he preys upon.
The “birder” of the title introduces himself as Kristian (Michael Emery), a charming, silver-tongued birdwatcher, who’s personable, but just suspicious enough for us to want to keep him at arm’s length. The fellow campers at Lotus Cove, however, the clothing-optional colony that he sets himself upon, are all immediately smitten with his general demeanour (and his evident endowment doesn’t hurt either), and it isn’t long before he’s bedding a collective of campers who all very much live by the code of free, gender-less love.
There’s a relaxed attitude to the perform of sex and a refreshing lack of shame regarding anyone’s kinks. Truly, a place where anything goes. But such autonomy has its price too, and Kristian takes ad