

Happy Birthday to Me
Six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see.
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
TMDB
6.0/10
243 votes
IMDb
Not rated yet
View on IMDb
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3.5M
- Box office
- $10.6M
- Language
- English
- birthday
- psychopath
- birthday party
- murder
- marijuana
- serial killer
- slasher
- mystery killer
- brain surgery
- canuxploitation
- medical experiment
- black gloves
Top billed cast














Behind the camera
Director
Produced in
Canada
Where to watch
All optionsAvailability for United States. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.
Gallery












Videos
Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR15 May 1981
United KingdomGB
- Physical15DVD / Blu-ray5 Dec 2016
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR18+30 Jul 1981
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A15 May 1981
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1824 Sept 1981
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical16 Sept 1981
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical22 Jan 1982
FranceFR
- Theatrical126 Jan 1982
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1631 Jul 1981
JapanJP
- Theatrical31 Oct 1981
MexicoMX
- TheatricalC29 Jan 1982
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical161 Oct 1981
Frequently asked questions
Happy Birthday to Me was released on 15 May 1981.
Audience reviews
2- T6/10
tmdb17996075
2/14/2017
"Happy Birthday to Me" is a fairly entertaining slasher from the early 1980s, in which the main target is composed by a bunch of hateful know-it-all teenagers who basically deserve the worst possible deaths. There's nothing really spectacular about that, but "Happy Birthday to Me", delivers a well developed combination of butchery for the gore-lovers, but also offers a pretty intriguing and disturbing mystery surrend…
- W6/10
Wuchak
9/29/2022
**_Unique, lush slasher with a notable cast fumbles at the end_** A teen returns to a hoity-toity private academy in the Northeast after a seriously traumatic experience (Melissa Sue Anderson) where members of the so-called Top Ten circle start to perish one-by-one. Who’s the killer and why? Glenn Ford is on hand as the girl’s psychiatrist. "Happy Birthday to Me" (1981) is both a slasher and a whodunit, similar…
Member reviews
Sign in to rate and review. Browsing stays free and open.
Sign inMember comments
0Sign in to post a comment. Browsing stays free and open.
Sign in











