Happy Birthday to Me
Happy Birthday to Me is a Slasher Flick from 1981.
Set in the prestigious Crawford Academy, the film centers around Virginia who suffered a traumatic accident on her birthday during her childhood. As another birthday is coming near, her buried memories of that fateful day have started returning little by little. But she also tends to have blackouts during these events. And some people tend to coincidentally disappear too, especially those close to her...
These are jolly good examples:
- Bar Brawl
- Covers Always Lie
- Cruel and Unusual Death
- Danger Takes a Backseat: Killer attacks Bernadette inside her car.
- Downer Ending: In the end Virginia gets the blame for her half-sisters murders.
- Dutch Angle: Done when Virginia is having flashbacks.
- Enter Stage Window: Etienne enters Virginia's room through her window to steal her panties.
- Everyone Is a Suspect
- Final Girl
- Flashback Echo
- Grave Marking Scene: Virginia visits her mother's grave often.
- Groin Attack
- Hand of Death
- Hand Off
- Hoist by His Own Petard
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
- I Need a Freaking Drink
- Knife Nut
- Latex Perfection
- Love Triangle
- Mommy Issues
- Mummies At the Dinner Table: In the ending.
- Nerd Glasses: Alfred
- Nightmare Fetishist: Alfred
- Ominous Fog
- Panty Thief: Etienne
- Rain of Blood
- Ramp Jump
- Red Herring: Alfred, Rudi and ultimately Virginia.
- The Shrink: Dr. Faraday
- Title Drop
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia
- Trophy Room: Displayed in the ending.
- Twist Ending: The killer is revealed to be Ann, who is actually Virginia's half-sister. There is no build-up to The Reveal, so many were left feeling that it's more of a Shocking Swerve.
- ↑ (Death by shish kebab however, does)