Birdemic: Shock and Terror (often shortened to Birdemic) is a 2010 American independent romantic thriller-horror film directed and executive produced by James Nguyen (who also wrote the story and screenplay), and starring Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Birdemic tells the story of a romance between the two main characters as their small town is attacked by birds. It also was inspired by the environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which led to the film having an environmental message.