Happy Death Day (2017)

• Year: 2017
• Released: 13 Oct 2017
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5308322/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/happy_death_day
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/happy-death-day
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
• Runtime: 96 min
• Writer: Scott Lobdell
• Director: Christopher Landon
• Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine
• Keywords: murder, college, college student, prequel, young adult,

	6.6/10
	58/100
	71% – Critics
	67% – Audience

Happy Death Day Storyline

After drunken partying the previous evening, university student Theresa “Tree” Gelbman wakes up on her birthday in the dorm room of her classmate Carter Davis. She ignores a phone call from her father David and dismisses Carter while leaving his room and throws away a birthday cupcake given to her by her sorority housemate Lori Spengler. Tree also meets with her married professor, Gregory Butler, with whom she is having an affair. That night, on her way to a party, Tree is lured into a tunnel and murdered by a figure wearing a mask of the campus mascot – a baby. Tree immediately wakes up in the same way she had previously – in Carter’s bed – and is unnerved to find the previous day’s events repeating themselves. Baffled, she nonetheless relives the day and uses this second chance to avoid the tunnel and reach the party. However, the masked killer follows her to the party and murders her again. Tree again wakes up in Carter’s bed, realizes that she is in a time loop and barricades herself in her sorority house room to avoid death. The killer, however, is already hiding there and slays her a third time..

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Happy Death Day Movie Reviews

Derivative half-comic slasher flick proves you can’t go wrong when you steal from the best

Jessica Rothe is amusingly pithy and savvy playing a selfish college beauty, a spoiled sorority sister who rules the school until she is stabbed and killed on her way to a surprise birthday party by a masked lunatic. But fate plays this campus cutie an unusual hand once she discovers she’s living her birthday over and over again, each time attempting to cheat death but always running into her attacker. Screenwriter Scott Lobdell isn’t trying to sneak a slasher variant of “Groundhog Day” passed us–he’s upfront about the similarities, even exalts in them, while toying with all the possibilities such a scenario can offer. It takes Rothe three tries to fully comprehend what’s happening to her; once she formulates a plan (creating a suspect list), Lobdell mixes things up, so that the movie rarely feels repetitive. Our heroine, snarky to start, follows Bill Murray’s example and becomes a better person on her twisted journey (reestablishing contact with her father, apologizing to her roommate, even causing her own demise on one occasion to prevent the cute nerd from the boys’ dorm from losing his life). Director Christopher B. Landon deserves credit for delivering a modern-day thriller with lots of action but no gore and no nudity. If it isn’t quite a family-friendly slasher flick, it certainly is a squirrelly, sassy one, with some big laughs counterbalancing the suspense. Good show! *** from ****

‘Groundhog Day’ with a slasher/mystery twist

Saw ‘Happy Death Day’ as somebody who was fascinated by the concept, found the advertising interesting and good enough to warrant a view and who appreciates horror when done well. Seeing it just before Halloween as part of my Halloween celebrations, will admit to not being as bowled over by the film as would have liked but enjoying it a good deal.

As surprisingly interesting as the advertising was (and there has been some dreadful advertising this year, a notable recent example being the completely mis-marketed ‘Geostorm’), it is also misleading. One would expect a truly frightening film judging from the trailers, but actually ‘Happy Death Day’ happened to be much more than what was indicated and wasn’t what one would call terrifying or sleep-with-the-light-on-for-a-week. The good news is that ‘Happy Death Day’ actually makes the most of its concept, refreshing having seen films recently that had concepts that they didn’t do anywhere near enough with. The not so good news is that as enjoyable as it was it did feel like something was missing.

It is easy to see why lots of people will like, and have liked ‘Happy Death Day’. It is just as easy to see why it will be, and has been, a let-down for others. My opinion has shades of both, leaning towards the former. ‘Happy Death Day’ may be somewhat standard (while the concept is a pretty unique one, some of the story elements aren’t), superficial (other than the lead character, the characters are developed very flimsily) and some parts don’t make as much sense as they could and feel unfinished.

Was expecting more from the killer twist reveal, which is not as clever and surprising as one would like and the whole ending felt rather silly and rushed to me (the killer’s motive also came over as really trivial for an elaborate set-up). A little slow to begin with too, it’s once the concept kicks in when ‘Happy Death Day’ properly comes to life and maintains that energy for the rest of the film.

For all those faults though, ‘Happy Death Day’ is also refreshingly self-aware, almost very much aware of its standard-ness and superficiality and acknowledges it, and manages to be lots of fun, creepy-suspenseful and surprisingly thought-provoking. Gruesomely funny sums it up very well.

‘Happy Death Day’ is a long way from amateurish visually, the photography is stylish rather than slapdash, the editing has suitably unnerving moments and the lighting is atmospheric. Christopher Landon never lets it get too heavy while not diluting the fun or scares, and the at times haunting and at others times funky soundtrack adds a lot.

When it comes to the script, ‘Happy Death Day’ is full of knowing humour and never removes its tongue from its cheek, instead keeping it firmly intact throughout which proved to come off really well. It also really makes one think. The story execution is not perfect, but it’s never dull and has some neat twists and turns that stops it from being predictable and repetitive.

Jessica Rothe should become a bigger star after her excellent lead turn here, she has been acting a few years before this but this is the first time where she really held my attention and allowed me to take proper notice of her. Israel Broussard is also very believable and the two have great chemistry together. The acting on the whole is solid but essentially it’s all about Rothe and she is one of the main reasons why ‘Happy Death Day’ is worth a viewing.

Overall, a long way from perfect but quite enjoyable. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Groundhog Day in slasher form

HAPPY DEATH DAY is yet another modern-day slasher film, a difficult beast when the genre has been effectively dead in the water ever since SCREAM came out back in 1996. This one adopts a sci-fi twist by basically copying GROUNDHOG DAY left, right and centre, from the lead’s reliving of the same day over and over again down to her realisation that she needs to atone for her despicable behaviour. I found that it suffers in two ways: once from the predictability of the premise (and I do love GROUNDHOG DAY) and second from making the lead just too unlikeable. However, it’s not all bad. The direction is brisk and efficient and some of the supporting performances are well judged; the humour also tends to work better than the horror, although not always. The double-twist ending doesn’t really satisfy, however.