

Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.
Acting
Hutton's dual performance — Thad's panic vs Stark's swagger
Practical Effects
Gross-out bird effects that aged weirdly beautifully
Direction
Romero's last theatrical feature — patient, nasty, personal

Director
George A. Romero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stephen King wrote the novel after his own pseudonym Richard Bachman was outed — this is his revenge fantasy.
The sparrows represent psychopomps — soul guides in mythology — literally escorting Stark back to death.