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Happy Birthday to Me
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.
1981 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 110 min · Horror · Mystery · 10 frames
Tagline
Six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see.
Crew
- Screenplay: John C.W. Saxton, Peter Jobin, Timothy Bond
- Cinematography: Miklós Lente
- Edited by: Debra Karen
- Music: Bo Harwood, Lance Rubin
- Production design: Earl G. Preston
- Produced by: John Dunning, André Link
Cast
- 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
Production
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Studios: Famous Players, Canadian Film Development Corporation, The Birthday Film Company
- Budget: $3,500,000
- Box office: $10,600,000
- Themes: birthday, psychopath, birthday party, murder, marijuana, serial killer, slasher, mystery killer, brain surgery, canuxploitation
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