Happy Birthday to Me

1981 110 min ★ 6.0 Horror, Mystery

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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Cast

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

Details

Director

J. Lee Thompson

Screenplay

John C.W. Saxton

Tagline

"Six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$3,500,000

Revenue

$10,600,000

Production

Famous Players, Canadian Film Development Corporation, The Birthday Film Company

Reviews

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tmdb17996075

February 14, 2017

★ 6/10

"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 distur...

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Wuchak

September 29, 2022

★ 6/10

**_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...