Bloody Birthday

1981 85 min ★ 5.9 Horror, Thriller

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.

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Cast

Lori Lethin

Joyce Russel

Melinda Cordell

Mrs. Brody

Julie Brown

Beverly Brody

Susan Strasberg

Miss Viola Davis

José Ferrer

Doctor

Joe Penny

Mr. Harding

Bert Kramer

Sherriff James Brody

Elizabeth Hoy

Debbie Brody

Billy Jayne

Curtis Taylor

K.C. Martel

Timmy Russel

Details

Director

Ed Hunt

Screenplay

Ed Hunt

Tagline

"The nightmare begins with the kids next door."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Judica Productions

Reviews

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tmdb17996075

February 14, 2017

★ 7/10

'Bloody Birthday' is one of those movies that surprisingly ages well enough to remain watchable nowadays. Not a masterpiece for sure, but still entertaining and surprisingly enough, it doesn't really have a lot of unintentionally funny scenes. I know it's a shocker if we keep in mind that this is a low budget flick from the early 80s about a group of evil children who kill people. But trust me, th...

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Wuchak

September 26, 2022

★ 6/10

**_Born under a bad sign_** In a Southern Cal town people are dying in curious circumstances with everything pointing to some unlikely culprits. “Bloody Birthday” (1981) mixes the killer kid genre with slasher flick and works well enough. It came out a few years before the “Children of the Corn” series started, but it’s not like there weren’t plenty of predecessors going back to the early ...