Happy Birthday to Me is a 1981 slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford. Its plot revolves around six brutal murders occurring around a popular college senior's birthday. Filmed primarily in Canada and upstate New York, Happy Birthday to Me was distributed by Columbia Pictures, and released theatrically in North America on May 15, 1981. The film received mostly mixed reviews from critics.
One night, Alfred, a Top Ten member who is infatuated with Ginny, follows her to her mother's grave. In retaliation, she stabs him with a pair of garden shears. On the weekend of Ginny's 18th birthday, her father leaves for a business trip. After a school dance, Ginny invites Steve to her house and prepares shish kebabs. While the two are drinking wine and smoking marijuana, Ginny begins to feed Steve with the kebab, but violently shoves the skewer down his throat.
Happy birthday to me!!
Ann arrives at Ginny's house the following morning and finds Ginny taking a shower. In the shower, Ginny has a flashback of her mother's death: Her mother, a newly-inducted socialite, invites the Top Ten to Ginny's birthday celebration four years earlier and is concerned when no guests have arrived. After questioned by her mother, Ginny tearfully mentions the group are attending a party Ann is having instead. Humiliated, her mother drives drunk to the Thomasons' house with Ginny, where she is denied entry by Mr. Thomason's gatekeeper. Enraged and upset, she attempts to drive across a raising drawbridge, causing their car to fall into the water. Pinned beneath the steering wheel, Ginny's mother drowns. Ginny, however, manages to swim to safety.
Paranoid that she may be murdering her friends during blackout episodes, Ginny visits Dr. Faraday. When she confronts him over the procedure she underwent, he is evasive, and she murders him with a fireplace poker. Mr. Wainright returns home during a thunderstorm for Ginny's birthday and finds a pool of blood in the foyer. He flees hysterically and finds one of Ginny's friends, Amelia, standing in the yard in what seems to be a state of shock, clutching a wrapped gift. In the cemetery, he discovers his late wife's grave to have been robbed, with Dr. Faraday's corpse lying in it.
Mr. Wainright notices a light on inside the family's guest cottage. Inside, he finds the bodies of each member of the Top Ten seated at a table alongside his dead wife's corpse. He then sees Ginny enter the room with a birthday cake, singing "Happy Birthday" to herself, seeming to have lost her mind. Feeling he has failed his daughter with her treatment, Ginny suddenly slashes her father's throat. He dies, failing to notice another girl is seated at the table with her head down. Ginny then goes toward the girl, who also appears to be Ginny. As the girl comes to the Ginny we have seen throughout the film, she begins to raise her voice saying she did it all for her, as she ruined her last party. Suddenly the two Ginnys struggle and the other girl is revealed as Ann, who has disguised herself as Ginny with an elaborate latex mask probably made by Alfred. Ann removes the mask, ranting and raving over her father's affair with Ginny's mother and how it destroyed her family. Ann reveals that she and Ginny are half-sisters and it's all her fault. Ginny manages to wrestle the knife from Ann and stabs her to death. As she stands over Ann's corpse holding the bloodied knife, a police officer enters the cottage and says, "What have you done?"
Columbia Pictures really pushed the promotional manual for Happy Birthday to Me, which was jam-packed with ideas for cinemas to promote the film. Although it is not clear how many picture houses really embraced the film's promotion, some of the more colorful ideas were to stage a mini-recreation of the film's final scene (without the bodies), but with a butchered birthday cake with crimson candles surrounded by glittering birthday party hats, all to be set upon a fake coffin. People celebrating their own birthdays were encouraged to bring family and friends with incentives, such as T-shirts and party hats. They also suggested having a member of staff, dressed in funereal black, preventing anyone from entering the auditorium during the final ten minutes. Those in line would then be offered "a bite-sized slice of Virginia's birthday cake" from the concession stand.[citation needed]
The film was also advertised with trailers both at the cinema and on TV. Most trailers culminate with a birthday cake being split with an axe, although an axe does not actually feature in the film itself.[citation needed]
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Set in the prestigious Crawford Academy, the film centers around Virginia, who suffered a traumatic accident on her birthday during her childhood. As another birthday is coming near, her buried memories of that fateful day have started returning little by little. But she also tends to have blackouts during these events. And some people tend to coincidentally disappear too, especially those close to her...
OK, so today\u2019s my 55th birthday. I\u2019m trying to remember exactly when birthdays stopped being awesome. I know a lot of people will say that it really stopped once they became adults or after they turned 30 or whatever, but I have to say I loved my birthday a lot longer than that. To be honest, I think I loved my birthday all the way until I turned 50. No, even that\u2019s not right, I liked my 50th birthday too.
Anyway, I don\u2019t dislike my birthday even now. I hear from all sorts of friends. My family usually lets me do whatever I want \u2014 if I want to sleep all day, I can do it because it\u2019s my birthday.
Ginny's mother Estelle, a newly-inducted socialite, invited the Top Ten to her daughter's birthday celebration four years earlier. Instead, the Top Ten went to Ann's party. Drunk and unstable, Estelle confronted the grounds-keeper...and learned that she had a reputation as the town whore. Ergo, neither she nor her daughter were welcome at the Thomersons'. This led to Estelle attempting to drive across the drawbridge while it was opening. With Ginny screaming, her mother finally stopped halfway across - with both sides of the bridge still going up. The car fell between the bridge halves and into the river; Estelle drowned in her car, although Ginny swam to safety.
Ginny realizes that she may have killed her friends after all, including Ann. With Ginny's 18th birthday approaching, she struggles to get answers from Dr. Faraday; when he doesn't provide any, she bludgeons him to death with a fire poker.
Hal returns from his business trip, ready to celebrate his daughter's 18th birthday. Entering their house, he sees blood and frantically attempts to locate Ginny. Instead Hal finds his late wife's grave, which has been robbed; Estelle's corpse has been replaced with Dr. Faraday's. Entering a cottage which serves as the Wainwrights' guest quarters, Hal makes a ghastly discovery.
The corpses of all the butchered Top Ten members are seated around the table, which has been set to look exactly as it did four years ago. Estelle's decomposed body is seated there as well. Then Ginny enters, carrying a large and beautiful birthday cake. She sings "Happy Birthday" to herself. The already-distraught Hal bursts into tears when his daughter casually admits to committing the murders. Ginny then slits her father's throat with the same large knife she used to cut the cake. He never sees another Ginny, seated at this table as the Killer's only living guest. This Ginny, the real Ginny, is sedated.
Ann has been embittered by the revelation of her father's affair with Ginny's mother. It turns out that both girls are maternal half-sisters. Ann slaughtered all six core members of the clique (who never showed up for her birthday party) expressly for the purpose of framing Ginny...who suddenly breaks free, commandeers Ann's knife and slays her with it.
When you're fiftysomething, you're entitled to a little extravagance. But few birthday parties could match the spectacle staged by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for his 53rd last month. Saddam invited Cabinet members, prominent government officials and diplomats to his home village of Tikrit for lavish festivities that included a two-hour parade and banners proclaiming YOUR CANDLES, SADDAM, ARE THE TORCHES FOR ALL THE ARABS.
If you don't know what to do on your birthday alone, consider a fresh start with a mini-makeover. This can mean a new look, but you can also go the less traditional route and treat yourself to an internal makeover by read a self-improvement book, taking a workshop, or writing in a journal.
Feelings of loneliness on your birthday can sometimes be tied to previous negative experiences. Or sometimes they might be caused by your current birthday not living up to past experiences. These feelings of loneliness and sadness have been termed birthday depression or the birthday blues.
If you're home alone on your birthday, look for ways to make the day special. Consider baking a cake or having a treat delivered from your favorite local bakery. Other ideas that can make the day special include decorating the house, taking the day off work, inviting a friend over for dinner, or getting dressed up in a favorite outfit.
But today, I\u2019m here to start off the second week of September with: Me! It\u2019s my birthday, Bad Bitch Contest I\u2019m in FIRST PLACE. Go shawty! Happy Birthday to me! And all the other birthday songs. 2ff7e9595c
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