Comments on: Movie: Happy Death Day

Post: Movie: Happy Death Day

oh yeah! — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:51:46 -0800

A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.

Rotten Tomatoes 71%

Buzzfeed - The Resurrection (LOL) Of The Dumb, Fun Teen Slasher: How a goofy horror hit actually does something pretty smart with its main character.

Vulture - The Simple, Goreless Joys of Happy Death Day

By: DirtyOldTown

DirtyOldTown — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 12:04:07 -0800

This is a fun movie that nails an 80s horror comedy vibe but leaves out the sexism.

By: oh yeah!

oh yeah! — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:07:21 -0800

I'm not a huge horror buff, so, I only recently happened to catch 'Happy Death Day' on cable. Since the sequel has a trailer out now, I figured the original deserved a thread.

This is a fun movie that nails an 80s horror comedy vibe but leaves out the sexism.

Yeah, like the Buzzfeed reviewer says, they give Tree all the traits that are typical to the first girl killed in a slasher pic but make her the Final Girl instead. Plus, I don't think you can ever go wrong with a Groundhog Day story, it's just such a great story engine.

By: zeek321

zeek321 — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 14:21:56 -0800

Yeah I have no regrets about having watched this.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:40:20 -0800

Yep. Good stuff. I liked it.

Reminded me of the feeling of the recently discussed "The Babysitter" from Netflix. Which is weird since they are virtually nothing alike. I think it's simply both have quite charismatic female leads carrying them and both contain The Fun.

Oh, I liked how they put Tree on a timer of sorts as she accumulated chronic damage from the death/resurrections. That's an interesting way to get around the problem of there not really being any stakes if you can keep trying literally forever until you get it right.

By: fleacircus

fleacircus — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:14:12 -0800

This was both clever and dumb, but kinda too dumb. The main character was too clueless-yet-angry, it felt like she didn't really figure anything out or do anything smart. And it felt like the movie spent a lot of time forgetting to be funny. It kind of just doesn't work.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:31:34 -0800

The sequel's out!