Bloody Birthday

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<div> <B>Screenplay.......Ed Hunt & Barry Pearson</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Arlon Ober</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Gerald T. Olson</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Miss Davis.......Susan Strasberg (Frankenstein, The Manitou)</B></div> <div> <B>The Doctor.......Jos‚ Ferrer (The Being, Bloodtide, The Sentinal)</B></div> <div> <B>(not available)  Lori Lethin (The Prey, Return to Horror High)        </B></div> <div> <B>                 Melinda Cordell</B></div> <div> <B>                 Julie Brown (Earth Girls are Easy, Shakes the Clown)</B></div> <div> <B>                 Joe Penney (Riptide-TV, Jake and the Fat Man-TV</B></div> <div> <B>                 Bert Kramer </B></div> <div> <B>                 KC Martell</B></div> <div> <B>                 Elizabeth Hoy</B></div> <div> <B>                 Billy Jacoby (Dr. Alien, Just One of the Guys)</B></div> <div> <B>                 Andy Freeman</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The music adds to a nice pace, and the film features a truly frightening trio, as well as a scary story up to a point. What's the point? We don't know. Why do these kids behave as they do? If the people who made the film know why these kids were born so suddenly at the same time and act like a bunch of demons, they should let the viewer know. No, we do not like the idea of the alignment of the planets. That was disproved when President Reagan creaked off to retirement in 1988, alive. A more thorough explanation of any kind would have made this a better movie, even if it was made decades before Reagan disproved the astrology theory. As it stands, it's a good one.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: During an eclipse on June 9, 1970, in Meadowvale, California, at Meadowvale General Hospital, 3 women suddenly go into premature labor. The doctor arrives in a huge Plymouth Fury and his patients deliver Two boys and a girl are born. June 1, 1980  Two teenagers are making out at the graveyard when they are attacked by a madman with a shovel and a jumprope who politely buries them after violently ending their petting session. Soon after, a ten year old boy sneaks into his home at bedtime. At Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, the chief of police is looking for clues. The strict schoolteacher Miss Davis, is lending a hand. All three of the eclipse babies are in her class and it's their birthday on Monday and the entire town is expected to attend.. The entire town, even the naked dancing Beverly, the Police Chief's daughter, is concerned over the murders of Duke and Annie. Curtis, Steven and Debbie, as cute as they are, are real problem children. It seems the birthday children are offing people indiscriminately, notably the girl's father, Police Chief Brody, and the school teacher, Miss Davis. Why might this be? Every 20 years, explains the teacher's aide, Joyce, the earths horoscope is such that bad things will happen. Every president elected in these years has died in office (with the more recent exception of Reagan). One of their schoolmates, Timmy, who nearly witnessed the murder of the cop, and his sister, the teacher's aide who charts horoscopes, are tough to kill and respectively survive a junkyard captivity in a refrigerator and a junkyard pursuit by a mystery car. The day of the party arrives and little Curtis tricks Joyce into a public accusation that he has decorated the cake with ant poison frosting, which he has not, as the beautiful cake is devoured greedily by the unsuspecting townspeople. Thoroughly disgraced and discredited, Joyce begins to notice that Curtis has no sense of right and wrong and that he may be missing a conscience. When older sister Beverly (naked dancer) finds little sister Debbie's murder scrapbook and intends to show it to her mother, Debbie, who always escapes suspicion, blames Curtis, but calls her comrades over to deal with the developments at her house. She takes the first step herself, with a crossbow to the eye of her perpetually dressing sister. When Joyce catches the terrible trio attempting to choke Timmy, shortly thereafter, a cat and mouse game between the two sides ensues, culminating in angelic Debbie's request that Joyce come babysit and bring Timmy along to play, where the kiddies effect an all out assault, (gun, jumprope, crossbow, etc.) and things look real bad for the good guys.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>