Bloody Birthday

'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...

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 its not like there werent 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 theres 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 wit...