"Happy Birthday to Me" is a fairly entertaining slasher from the early 1980s, in which the main target is composed by a bunch of hateful know-it-all teenagers who basically deserve the worst possible deaths. There's nothing really spectacular about that, but "Happy Birthday to Me", delivers a well developed combination of butchery for the gore-lovers, but also offers a pretty intriguing and disturbing mystery surrendering the main character. As a matter of fact, the main premise in this film is the main character's deeply troubled mind and her desperate efforts to try to rebuild a part of her …
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Happy Birthday to Me
Overview
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
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Release date
15/05/1981
Votes
238
Popularity
2.7
Melissa Sue Anderson
Virginia Wainwright
Glenn Ford
Dr. David Faraday
Lawrence Dane
Hal Wainwright
Sharon Acker
Estelle Wainwright
Frances Hyland
Mrs. Patterson
Tracey E. Bregman
Ann Thomerson
Jack Blum
Alfred Morris
Matt Craven
Steve Maxwell
Lenore Zann
Maggie
David Eisner
Rudi
Lisa Langlois
Amelia
Michel-René Labelle
Etienne Vercures
Richard Rebiere
Greg Hellman
Lesleh Donaldson
Bernadette O'Hara
Earl Pennington
Lieutenant Tracy
Murray Westgate
Gatekeeper
Jérôme Tiberghien
Prof. Heregood
Maurice Podbrey
Dr. Feinblum
Vlasta Vrana
Bartender
Walter Massey
Conventioneer Leader
Griffith Brewer
Verger
Allan Katz
Ann's Date
Ron Lea
Amelia's Date
Terry Haig
Feinblum's Assistant
Karen Stephen
Ms. Calhoun
Louis Del Grande
Surgeon
Nicholas Kilbertus
Anesthetist
Damir Andrei
Junior Surgeon
Gina Dick
Ingrid
Stephanie Miller
Hospital Nurse
Steven Mayoff
Police Officer
Victor Knight
Conventioneer
Roland Nincheri
Conventioneer
Aram Barkev
Conventioneer
Alan Barnett
Conventioneer
Paul Board
Conventioneer
Marc DeGagne
Conventioneer
Bruce Gooding
Conventioneer
Keith Sutherland
Conventioneer
Herbert Vool
Conventioneer
Len Watt
Conventioneer
Joe Wertheimer
Conventioneer
Nancy Allan
Cheerleader
Karen Hynes
Cheerleader
Tracy-Marie Langdon
Cheerleader
Debbie McGellin
Cheerleader
Kathy Reid
Cheerleader
Lori Timmons
Cheerleader
Debbie Tull
Cheerleader
Lynn Wilson
Cheerleader
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**_Unique, lush slasher with a notable cast fumbles at the end_** A teen returns to a hoity-toity private academy in the Northeast after a seriously traumatic experience (Melissa Sue Anderson) where members of the so-called Top Ten circle start to perish one-by-one. Who’s the killer and why? Glenn Ford is on hand as the girl’s psychiatrist. "Happy Birthday to Me" (1981) is both a slasher and a whodunit, similar to “Friday the 13th” from the year prior, except with the milieu of a prep school. The lush setting, mostly taking place at night, is noteworthy and the unique perspective of dire…
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