Birds have a hard life, don’t they? The female kind are constantly leered at by all sorts of unsavoury gentlemen who use an assortment of terrible chat up lines in order to get a cuddle.

The animal equivalent has it much worse; they don’t have access to the latest designer shoes, can’t bake themselves a yummy pasta dish or drive themselves to the shops. This is because birds can’t do any of these things.

The only things most birds have to look forward to is the day they end up as food. Each night in their coop, thousands will dream of being mashed together to make nuggets, or perhaps being cooked in a fancy salad with exotic foreign dressing. Perhaps not all birds are up for this idea, like this rooster who perhaps wanted to make a tasty human sandwich.

Forget a sequel to Cloverfield, this could literally be the next best thing. It has all the ingredients that made the original such a success – lots of handheld shaky camera motions, a main character that is meant to be portrayed as scary but ends up being nothing of the sort and the lovely avant-garde shoestring budget feel.

If Chicken Run was done with clay animation, then this video could very well be the beginning of the next wave of animal-based films. Only this time, the Rooster will enslave the human race and feed us grain for all eternity.

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