SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Overrated

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I love the look of this movie. It has the fuzz look that i associate with 80's slashers on TV. This movie has a couple of good scenes that make it a great addition to your movie collection. A couple that stick out in my mind would be the scene where the little girl charges the boys a quarter to watch her teenage sister dance around topless. Another would be the teacher getting dispatched. The one scene i loved the most would be the kids chasing the kid Timmy i think his name is. He gets close to his house but they catch him and knock him down and start chocking him with a water hose. The ending is great too. The ending isn't something common in these kind of movies.The story is not complex, but the actors do well with what they had to work with, and it all comes across as almost campy fun. The adult actors in the film were quite bad and it seems like the kids were better actors in my opinion and the film had a really low budget. There are some neat and gory death scenes and of course lots of nudity, since no self-respecting 80's slasher flick would dare skip that, but what's really good about the movie is that it shows how manipulative these children are. Not only do all three of them pretend to act innocent and cute to hide their evil deeds, but they know how to prevent anyone from finding anything out, nobody suspects them so it's easier for them to continue killing. Unlike many other horror films from this period, it at least attempts to bring something original and imaginative. For once, the kids acting is good and the entire film has a creepy atmosphere and grizzly music. Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

After a series of strange deaths, a teen learns her brother and his best friends are all involved in a murderous crime spree and must find a way to stop them before the spree continues.This was quite a disturbing and wholly original slasher. Perhaps more than any other film in the genre this one makes out the ploy about how evil kids are with their vindictiveness and cruelty, which is this one's main point. This one really goes to the extreme in making them seem like the coldest beings in the universe through their actions here by maliciously trapping kids inside locked refrigerators, waving guns in front of everyone around them, keeping scrapbooks of their killings, charging money to spy on their nude siblings and flat-out lying to adults and peers to keep their handiwork a secret from everyone. All of these tactics are more than enough to give them a creepy, twisted edge if it happened to be featured on adults, yet the fact that this is done on young children makes them even darker as the cold nature of their appearance and behavior makes for an incredibly fun time. It's a lot of fun when it zeros in on traditional slasher motives and scenes here by generating some fun with its rather chilling stalking scenes as the school rampage, their attempt to run-down a victim in a junkyard with a car, dealing with the sister in her bedroom and finally the chase along the streets which is quite enjoyable, along with the finale chases through the house that is really tense and matches up quite nicely to add a lot of traditional slasher-film chases. These here are enough to hold off the film's problems, the biggest of which is the sheer stupidity of everyone that basically ignores everything around them simply to get the plot going. This is either due to the lousy acting on the kids who are incapable of looking sad or grief-stricken during the funerals or the inability of the police to catch onto the spree around them which is all done to keep the plot going unnecessarily when a realistic effort would've done more investigating or more to prevent them from happening. The kills aren't that special or dynamic either, but the stupidity is the biggest factor holding this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Language and a sex scene.

Three 10 year old kids who were born during a solar eclipse, become serial killers with no consciences because Saturn was blocked during the eclipse - um, OK, whatever gimmick works to get these kids murdering is fine with me. It's an above average slasher, which doesn't really mean much since most of the subgenre is below average, but it's competently made and feels more like a demented black comedy than a horror flick. The kids do a good job and seem to have a blast being as bad as possible, turning their neighborhood into slasher territory. There are some elements here lifted from Halloween, despite being barely anything like the Carpenter film - especially a tracking shot down a suburban street with our meek lead and her friend, who even gets a quick visit from her cop father - perhaps a misinformed producer decision to cash in on a film that's nothing like the one they're making. There's a quick blink and you miss it appearance from the American Ninja himself, the anti- charismatic Michael Dudikoff. Bloody Birthday isn't especially bloody, but this lunacy is never anything but entertaining.

Three children are born during an eclipse, which somehow, ten years later, causes them to go haywire and start murdering locals. They strangle a girl and brain her boyfriend with a spade before burying them. A sheriff (one of the kid's father) gets knocked about with a baseball bat. Next up is little Timmy, who goes to school with the trio - he gets locked in a fridge and left to suffocate.Which is quite a suspenseful scene. Luckily, Timmy manages to escape and it's down to his sister and himself to try and convince the town that these kids have gone Michael Myers on everyone. Problem is - can folks be convinced that three ten year olds have turned serial killer. And can they stay alive long enough to tell anyone.The sight of kids shooting, strangling and such like is quite unnerving at first, and although this film starts off quite strong, I felt it lost it's way towards the end when it started pulling its punches. That said, Bloody Birthday was a film that passed me by years ago and I'm glad I've watched it now. The scene with the fridge and the kids trying to run down Timmy's sister were done well, and there's an arrow in the eye bit for folks that like that. More nudity than I expected too, so nothing to complain about there I guess.No classic (at least to me), but still worth tracking down to see a different take on the slasher film. As far as I could see there wasn't any reason for the kids going ballistic, but then I'm not one for paying attent