I had my son Tim watch this awhile back and think he would back me when I say this is a very underrated movie that deserves a much higher rating than it gets on IMDB. Putting the older sister from Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Sue Anderson, and 50's and 60's screen icon Glen Ford together in a slasher movie was a great idea and both do great jobs.
The story revolves around
Anderson's character whose had some heavy trauma to deal with in her young life but is anxiously looking forward to her upcoming birthday. She hangs out with a group of elite students at her school but when all of a sudden they start disappearing you wonder if it's her because she tends to black out from time to time. Her doctor is Glen Ford and he tries to help her through her problems but is she getting better?
There are plenty of great kills in this movie with a good amount of gore and I would describe it as a thinking person's slasher, not something you could say about many of those type movies from the 80's. It deals with childhood slights, drunk parents, how the wealthy treat those they think our beneath them and has a very cool twist at the end.
The bottom line is you should see this movie, you won't regret it. I give Happy Birthday To Me a "B+".
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