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Bloody Birthday1981

Name: Bloody Birthday
Genre: Slasher, Psychological
Released: 1981-04-28
Rating: 5.8

“The nightmare begins with the kids next door.”

Directed by Ed Hunt

5.8

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.7Rotten Tomatoes 75%Metacritic 49TMDB 5.9

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Year

1981

Runtime

85 min

The premise

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.

Horror Vault's take

Three children share more than a birthday — born during a rare total solar eclipse, they grow up hiding something deeply, disturbingly wrong beneath cherubic smiles. A decade later, a string of brutal murders rattles their quiet community, and two siblings begin to suspect the unthinkable. Bloody Birthday taps into the primal unease of trusting the wrong people precisely because they seem so harmless. It's a lean, mean early-80s slasher with a cold, unflinching premise that lingers well after the credits roll.

Content: Violence Against Adults And Children, Strangulation, Graphic Depictions Of Murder, Brief Nudity