Directed By: Ed Hunt
Written By: Ed Hunt, Barry Pearson
Starring: Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown
STORY
Three children (Billy Jacoby, Elizabeth Hoy and Andy Freeman) in the same town are born simultaneously during the peak of an eclipse. The whole town favours the three kids, throwing large celebrations every year for their birthdays. This year, however, is their tenth and their sweet innocence is about to go to Hell! It seems the double digits have turned these kids into demonic psychopaths whose only enjoyment comes from depleting the town’s population to nothing. Nobody is safe from these creepy kids and everyone who suspects them becomes a victim of their tricks.
CHARACTERS
After a local boy (Timmy Russel) walks in on what he suspects is murder, he becomes a priority target for the three although he’s unsure of what exactly he saw. Following an escape from eclipse kids’ trap, Timmy recruits his older sister Joyce, to help investigate the sudden deaths in the town. In trying to catch them, she becomes a target of the kids who plot to make her look crazy in front of everyone.
Special Effects / Gore:
Bloody Birthday is pretty dry, considering when it was made. Most of the kills, however brutal in execution, leave too much to the imagination for the slasher era. The small amount of gore is, I think, a large contributer to why it’s seldom talked about in the horror community. I found that the real effect was the way the kids schemed to kill and what they used to kill with, it’s not everyday you see a ten year old patrolling the streets with a police issued hand gun excitedly sneaking through alleys, around houses, etc. for his next victim. These kids are truly morbid not just when they kill, but through their daily lives also.
BIRTHDAY PINATA!!!???.....wait a minute, that Final Score:
The children of the corn would be running back to the rows from the eclipse kids, they pose a more real threat because they are portrayed as having enough smarts to zero out the population while walking inconspicuously amongst them. “Bloody Birthday” is an under-rated celebration!
Now this is my kinda cake!
