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Happy Birthday

2023 · 87 min

A tense, straightforward slasher that traps you in a creepy house with a killer and keeps the scares coming.

Directed by: Chris Helton
Genres: Horror
Starring: Kim Sandwich, Maddie Henderson, Angel Pean

Tagline: Payback is a bitch
Overview: A young student comes to grips with her gruesome past when her college friends take her to a "haunted" house on the edge of town. The coeds find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time as an escaped killer is holed up in the house.

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Directed by: Chris Helton
Genres: Horror
Starring: Kim Sandwich, Maddie Henderson, Angel Pean

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
trauma
isolation
violence
friendship
Places: single country house
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	5
Horror	8
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: horror
Directed by: Chris Helton
Written by: Jason Usry, Bora Ercan, Chris Helton
Starring: Kim Sandwich, Maddie Henderson, Angel Pean, Camilla Susser, Rosie Koocher, Lily Beauchard, Ginger Renee, Matthew Scharff
Runtime: 87 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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