Six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see.
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.
Happy Birthday to Me (1981) is a horror and mystery film directed by J. Lee Thompson, released on May 15, 1981 with a runtime of 1h 50m. It stars Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane and Sharon Acker. Viewers rate it 6.0 out of 10 across 240 ratings.
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Melissa Sue Anderson
as Virginia Wainwright
Glenn Ford
as Dr. David Faraday
Lawrence Dane
as Hal Wainwright
Sharon Acker
as Estelle Wainwright
Frances Hyland
as Mrs. Patterson
Tracey E. Bregman
as Ann Thomerson
Jack Blum
as Alfred Morris
Matt Craven
as Steve Maxwell
Lenore Zann
as Maggie
David Eisner
as Rudi
Lisa Langlois
as Amelia
Michel-René Labelle
as Etienne Vercures
Directed by J. Lee Thompson, written by John C.W. Saxton, Peter Jobin and Timothy Bond, produced by John Dunning and André Link.
Average viewer score of 6.0/10 from 240 ratings.
"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…
Reviewed on February 14, 2017
**_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…
Reviewed on September 29, 2022
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Happy Birthday to Me (1981) is available to stream on fuboTV and Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel, and to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home. Streaming availability is checked against JustWatch data and can change by region.
The main cast of Happy Birthday to Me (1981) includes Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker and Frances Hyland. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson. You can see the full cast and crew list, with character names, further up this page.
Happy Birthday to Me was released on May 15, 1981 and runs for 1h 50m.
Happy Birthday to Me (1981) holds an average rating of 6.0 out of 10 from 240 viewer votes, and is a good pick if you enjoy horror and mystery films. Read the viewer reviews on this page to decide for yourself.
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