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Bloody Birthday (1981)

post #1 of 19
6/16/07 at 12:41am
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It's like Problem Child x 3 (or Problem Child 2 + 1) with a homocidal edge. 3 kids born during solar eclipse lack compassion and therefore go on a killing spree. Or something.

Kids are pretty nasty, and there's a bunch of titties on display (albeit of the 80's variety) but there are nearly no good kills at all. Some very disturbing images of kids with guns, killing people. Something about kids with guns scares me shitless.
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post #2 of 19
6/16/07 at 1:20am
Patrick, you're starting to win me over!
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post #3 of 19
6/16/07 at 1:33am
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Nothing more romantic than a bloody birthday.
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post #4 of 19
6/16/07 at 3:39am
Bloody Birthday is great, it really exploits the Bad Seed concept in a fun, original way, by really tailoring it to the tropes of the slasher film and I can almost guarantee that NO American studio would want to do this today.
As a bonus you've also got a well put together Julie Brown getting naked w/ the killer kids as an audience in one hell of an excessive stripping sequence; the film is pretty much everything you want out of an early 80's slasher film and then some.
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post #5 of 19
6/16/07 at 9:35am
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Besides gore, which it skimps on majorly.
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post #6 of 19
6/16/07 at 9:37am
And what exactly is wrong with 80s titties?
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post #7 of 19
6/16/07 at 9:42am
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I knew I was opening a can of worms there.

80's titties always seem to be covered in freckles or have tanlines or sag majorly. There's something about 80's titties in low-budget horror that rarely do it for me, Return of the Living Dead being a HUGE exception.
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post #8 of 19
6/16/07 at 9:42am
Julie Brown's rack is the only thing I enjoyed in this movie. If you're looking for an 80's "Birthday" slasher that at least manages to throw in some inventive kills, check out "Happy Birthday to Me". What it lacks in skin, it makes up for in gore.
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post #9 of 19
6/16/07 at 9:45am
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
80's titties always seem to be covered in freckles or have tanlines or sag majorly.
What, you mean they're normal?

On-topic, what Death Surge said.
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post #10 of 19
6/16/07 at 9:47am
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No, I know, just something unappetizing about it. Maybe it's the lighting, or the film stock, or maybe it's just 80's hair, which is a big turn-off for me.
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post #11 of 19
6/16/07 at 1:33pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
or maybe it's just 80's hair, which is a big turn-off for me.
I was gonna say something about the titty comment, but as usual Gabe beat me to it. But NOW. . . them's fightin' words! Having come of age in the 80's (and having spent all of my teenage -read, puberty - years firmly nestled in the 80's), I feel a wellspring of nostalgia for the 80's hair. I always thought it was sexy, and I miss it. Thank God it still survives in some places in Jersey, like Bloomfield, or Bayonne.
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post #12 of 19
6/16/07 at 1:34pm
PS: Tanlines RULE!
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post #13 of 19
6/16/07 at 3:37pm
If the titties sag a bit, they all do it and thats why we love them, it's because they are NATURAL. Something that is rare today.
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post #14 of 19
6/16/07 at 3:52pm
Exactly. For example I hate those fake titties in the first scene of Freddy vs. Jason.
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post #15 of 19
6/16/07 at 4:22pm
I swear it's a curse being a hetero or vaguely hetero male, no matter what the discussion; global politics, civil liberty, the economy, the arts... eventually, it all comes down to titties.
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post #16 of 19
6/16/07 at 5:38pm
Hey let's not get ridiculous and say things like we hate fake titties. I only hate small titties. The tits that look like an orange in a nylon stocking. No use for that.
There are some though who must heed the words of Gary; more than a handful and you are risking a sprained thumb. I'll take the risk, thank you.
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post #17 of 19
6/16/07 at 5:49pm
Yeah, hate is a too strong a word. I don't care if they're big or small, but if they're obviously fake it's just less appealing for me.
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post #18 of 19
6/16/07 at 5:51pm
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg
Having come of age in the 80's (and having spent all of my teenage -read, puberty - years firmly nestled in the 80's), I feel a wellspring of nostalgia for the 80's hair. I always thought it was sexy, and I miss it. Thank God it still survives in some places in Jersey, like Bloomfield, or Bayonne.
Or pretty much the whole of Germany.
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post #19 of 19
6/27/07 at 12:13am
hubba hubba! Wie gehts, Fraulein?
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