Happy Birthday To Me

 


Happy Birthday To Me (1981)


The Plot: A teenager suffering from repressed memories is subjected to experimental brain surgery in hopes of curing her which it does except for short term memory loss. As she re-integrates back into her school, he friends start disappearing one by one. 

Our protagonist Virginia, goes to a wealthy boarding school which somehow inexplicably has pub nearby which all of the kids drink at. These are preppie kids, doing preppie kid things like putting live rats in the locals beers,  dangerously racing thru the streets jumping the opening draw bridge and making elaborate masks of your friends faces for fun. At least Virginia can say she had experimental brain surgery as her excuse for this behavior. One must assume the rest have not had experimental brain surgery done to them, they're just rich spoiled kids. 

yep, definitely teenagers in high school

Soon, the deaths starts occurring. The group of preppies, called the Top Ten due to how awesome they all are starts dwindling. At first no one seems to care too much about disappearing friends. There are no parents around much in this movie. It's possible this is a boarding school of some sort but that's not made clear. The best kill is the dreaded "take my boyfriend in front of the fireplace with wine and kebobs in an attempt to seduce him and then skewer him with the kebob through the mouth" gambit. Which works like a charm!

Is this kebob too spicy?

Ultimately, the deaths are to recreate a bizarre corpse attended birthday party, which, OK fine, but in my opinion, having a corpse filled birthday party might seem like fun as you don't have to share the birthday cake, but the downside is no presents. Small price to pay to get revenge on all the rich preppie kids. 

No need to worry about a corpse blowing out the candles on your birthday cake


Happy Birthday To Me gets 6 kebob skewers




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