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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

(1981, Canada)

Is it all in her imagination or is Melissa Sue Anderson killing her friends off one at a time. In this VERY CONFUSING horror who-done-it we get a very complicated plot involving a rainy night, a pissed off mother and poor girl who was not invited to a party. A terrible accident occurs on that rainy night and the death of the mother is the only clear thing. It is years later and Psychiatrist Glenn Ford is working with Anderson to help her sort out her terrible nightmares. In a series of flashbacks we get to see what happened yet even with all these clues I still found myself rewinding the tape just to figure this mess out. The killings are pretty gruesome and in some cases quite original but the overall feel of the film is confusing and too much of a mess to figure out. Anderson and Ford must have had been told something we weren't, like what the hell is going on!

Review by: Losman

Email: losman@express-news.net

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