

Bloody Birthday
The nightmare begins with the kids next door.
In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- birthday
- babysitter
- elementary school
- murder
- slasher
- eclipse
- strangulation
- evil child
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR28 Apr 1981
FranceFR
- Theatrical1626 May 1982
- PhysicalDVD & Blu-Ray19 Aug 2023
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1828 Jun 1985
- Physical1827 May 2022
SpainES
- Theatrical1827 Jan 1984
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Bloody Birthday was released on 28 April 1981.
Audience reviews
2- T7/10
tmdb17996075
2/14/2017
'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 r…
- W6/10
Wuchak
9/26/2022
**_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 it’s not like there weren’t plenty of predecessors going back to the early 60s. For instance, t…
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