Happy Birthday to Me
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Movie Reviews of Happy Birthday to Me
Movie Review: loved it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased "Happy Birthday to Me." The movie was in excellent condition and was a great buy. Price was a little high but the movie made up for that. I really enjoyed it!Movie Review: *Great Movie!*
Summary: 5 Stars
I love it.It is great.Keeps you wondering,and then really surprises you.If you have not seen it ,get it and you will like it.Movie Review: R.S.V.P. or die!
Summary: 4 Stars
Poor Ginny. All she has ever wanted was to be popular. She tried to have a party once, but that didnt turn out so well. She invited the "Top 10", her academies richest and most sought after click to her party, only to be sorely denied. Ya see... one of the other "Top 10" girls was also having a party, so the rest just naturally followed. Ginny's hard boozing Momma didnt like that too much. Not only did she storm over to the girls house with daughter in tow, but she managed to get them both into a nasty little car accident that not only ended her life, but severly messed up her daughters life as well.
Never fear! After some experimental brain surgeries and a few repressed memories, Ginny has emerged years later as a beautiful young woman who managed to get into the "Top 10" after all!!! Hooray!
Theres just one little catch. Ginny's B-day is coming up again, but her fellow "Top 10" are disappearing one by one. Of course, as the viewer, we realize right away that they are each getting hacked to bits....but who's killing them all??
Could it be that whacko Rudi? Or how about that creepy Alfred? Or is it Ginny herself?
"Happy Birthday to Me" emerges from the early 80's genre of horror films as one of the better movies out there. It may not be as gory as some of the others, but it does at least have some character development and some pretty creative death scenes going for it! And that Melissa Sue Anderson...what a looker!!
For the DVD release, their has been some drastic change to the original soundtrack. Due to copyright issues, some funky disco music has been added (mostly in the beginning) where there was once only scary music. While many have ranted on and on in previous reviews about how deplorable this is.... for this reviewer it wasn't all that bad. Plus, it's really only in the beginning, which makes it bearable.
In addition, others claim how lame the ending of this movie is. While the ending is "unbelieveable" to say the least- when you have your Jasons, Michael Myers, and Freddy's running around without ever being able to stay put- who can really fault this little gem for its ironic twist of an ending. Sure it's phony, but it's also fun. And most of you will never see it coming. For fans of early 80's style horror, this really is a must see.
If an invitation should happen to present itself, this reviewer would recommend checking this party out!
Movie Review: John will never eat shish kebab again.....
Summary: 4 Stars
Happy birthday to me is an almost perfect slasher film, the film is sort of like a combination of murder mystery and slasher film so thats what makes it slightly different from the other typical slashers that were released during the early 80's that and the twists and turns that happen in this film were great especially the ending, everybody from the cast gets to be a suspect and they usually act weird so you wouldn't know who the killer is. The only problem seems to be that Columbia and Tristar had altered the musical score now I have no idea why they did this but the new score deffinently sucks which sounds like cheesy 80's disco music which almost ruins some of the suspensful moments and gruesome death scenes. The death scenes were fantastic like the scene with the weights and shish kebab that gets shoved inside someones mouth which was also the original cover for this film, it wasn't a total gorefest as later horror films but that was fine because the film does seem to have a plot and storyline which is very rare especially in a slasher film. the dvd transfer is fantastic all the dark scenes are now more visible the one at the graveyard and the stabing that happens there and none of the gore scenes were cut as some reviewers have said I know because I used to have this on vhs untill it got ruined and I had to throw it away.Movie Review: UK DVD is a bit better than USA DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased the UK DVD (Region 2) and while it also has the altered english score that all of the reviews are mad about, it does include a german audio option which thankfully features the original score. So, this helps a little, particularly during the scenes where the actors are not speaking, so if you don't mind doing so, you can keep swtiching bach and forth from english to german audio. This is particularly useful during the introduction - I switched to the german audio to hear the original opening score (I prefer this over the new disco music given to the English score. The other good things about the UK release are the more professional artwork, and the PAL formatting.
HBTM is a top horror film from the 80's which doesn't deserve the treatment it has received from Columbia Tri-star. Apparently, they couldn't get the rights from Canada to use the correct score.
May I suggest we all contact a fine company like "Anchor Bay" and ask if they can re-release the film correctly on DVD.
It still begs to be asked ... why can't some Canadian company just release it on DVD? Don't they realise there is a market for it?