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Watch: Bloody Birthday 1981 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. The sun and and moon blocked out Saturn, and since that controls emotions, 10 years later all three children have become heartless killers and are able to escape detection because of their youthful, innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	5.7/10 Votes: 5,086
	71% | RottenTomatoes
	49/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 118 Popularity: 7.891 | TMDB

Reviews:

**_Born under a bad sign_**

In a Southern Cal town people are dying in curious circumstances with everything pointing to some unlikely culprits.

“Bloody Birthday” (1981) mixes the killer kid genre with slasher flick and works well enough. It came out a few years before the “Children of the Corn” series started, but it’s not like there weren’t plenty of predecessors going back to the early 60s. For instance, the Star Trek TV series had two episodes with sinister children, “Miri” and “The Children Shall Lead.” Then there’s “The Brood,” which debuted a couple years earlier.

Elizabeth Hoy (Debbie) and Billy Jayne (Curtis) are particularly effective as the diabolical offspring.
Meanwhile Julie Brown stands out on the feminine front as Beverly with a memorable scene reminiscent of Tom Cruise in “Risky Business” (1983), if you know what I mean. As far as the protagonist goes, Lori Lethin is winsome as Joyce with her Dorothy Hamill hairdo.

There are a couple of memorable scenes, like Timmy locked in the metal cabinet and the junkyard sequence.

The movie runs 1 hour, 25 minutes, and was shot in Glendale, California, which borders Los Angeles to the north and is east of Burbank.

GRADE: B-

‘Bloody Birthday’ is one of those movies that surprisingly ages well enough to remain watchable nowadays. Not a masterpiece for sure, but still entertaining and surprisingly enough, it doesn’t really have a lot of unintentionally funny scenes. I know it’s a shocker if we keep in mind that this is a low budget flick from the early 80s about a group of evil children who kill people. But trust me, the movie manages to remain respectable and watchable for the most part.

The story revolves around three children who are born during a a total eclipse. According to astrology, during eclipses, the sun and the moon block Saturn, which controls emotions. As a consequence, the three children who are born that day, eventually become uncaring and evil. Since they don’t experience any feelings of remorse whatsoever, these 10-year-old kids gang up against basically everyone who stands in their way, including their own parents and siblings… and kill them! The body count increases day after day and the police authorities believe that there’s a psychopath lurking around the place. In the meantime, Debbie, Curtis and Steven, don’t hesitate to keep butchering people.

I was expecting some hilariously bad scenes, but the movie proved me wrong. True, it’s not exactly what most people would consider a ‘serious’ horror movie, but if I have to be fair, I’d say that the story is decently executed. One of the most important reasons why one would normally expect laughable situations (like I did), it’s because in these kind of movies in which the main villains are children, the young actors tend to be plain awful and they make the whole thing laughable. Let’s face it: kids tend to be horrible actors, which is understandable and we can’t blame them for that. But to my surprise, the three young actors who played the merciless killers in this film, looked very disturbing and not at all funny. The rest of the actors are also good and if you’re a George Clooney fan, you can see his uncle playing a doctor in this movie. Yeah, I know right?… who cares?. Also, Julie Brown, the great actress, singer, comedienne and gay icon, gives a solid performance as the naughty older sister and in case anyone is interested in nudity: she also strips in one of the scenes and she looks great naked. Too bad she didn’t have more time on the screen though! Julie is ‘absolutely fabulous’:P

So basically, this movie is fine if you’re in the mood for some modest horror from the 80s. My only objection regarding ‘Bloody Birthday’ would be the way to justify the children’s motives. This is perhaps one of the lowest points of the film. Let’s see: if children who were born during an eclipse end up being heartless killers, then how come these three were the only ones who actually murdered people? I’m sure there were other children who had been born the same day… and during other days of total eclipse too, oh well!. Overall, no big deal, it’s just a simple observation, that’s all. I’ve seen worse, trust me. Take ‘The Children’ (1980) for example, in which the precocious killer get their evilness after being turned into zombies by toxic cloud. No, believe me, ‘Bloody Birthday’ is far more decent and if you enjoy simple slashers, you’re going to enjoy this one very much.

Not necessarily what you might think it is
“Bloody Birthday” follows a group of children who were all born during an eclipse; on their tenth birthdays, they begin committing a series of murders without explanation. A local teenager, Joyce, finds herself enmeshed in the series of crimes.

With a title like “Bloody Birthday,” one might think this is a slasher flick set around a birthday party (ala “Happy Birthday to Me” or “April Fools’ Day”), but this early ’80s oddity is really more of a quasi-sci-fi flick mixed with pinches of “The Brood,” “The Bad Seed,” and “Village of the Damned.” The plot is objectively silly, and the explanation for the series of killings is never quite made entirely clear, but the general kookiness of it all is part of the film’s charm.

Lapses in logic aside, the film does have several nasty murder sequences which are made even more disturbing in that they are committed by children. The three “evil kids” here–two boys and one girl–are appropriately unlikable, and the child actors turn in decent performances. Genre favorite Lori Lethin appears as a teenage babysitter who finds herself in the center of these crimes, while Susan Strasberg appears as an ill-fated teacher.

As “Bloody Birthday” charges ahead toward its conclusion, it manages to not lose its general kookiness, but also strangely maintains a sense of seriousness about it. The entire film toes this line, really, and that is perhaps why it is such a strange watch. Though not a genre masterwork, “Bloody Birthday” is a fairly well-made, weird “killer kid” movie that is likely better than most of its “killer kid” peers. 6/10.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 25 min (85 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Thriller
Director Ed Hunt
Writer Ed Hunt, Barry Pearson
Actors Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Camera by Panavision
Laboratory Metrocolor, Culver City (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm