Bloody Birthday is a 1981 horror film

Horror film

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 directed by Ed Hunt. It was the first film to be produced by Gerald Olson

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Plot

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, these children become heartless and uncaring, with no feelings of remorse over their awful offences. Ten years later, they begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. However, when a young boy and his older sister discover their crimes, they find themselves as the targets of the evil children. At the end the two evil children were arrested except for the girl, who managed to escape. The film ends with the girl promising that she will be a good girl to her mother as they drive somewhere else, but the final scene reveals that there was truck driver who was murdered by the girl.

Cast

• Miss Viola Davis - Susan Strasberg
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• Doctor - José Ferrer
  José Ferrer
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• Joyce Russel - Lori Lethin
• Mrs. Brody - Melinda Cordell
• Beverly Brody - Julie Brown
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• Mr. Harding - Joe Penny
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• Sheriff James Brody – Bert Kramer
  Bert Kramer
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• Timmy Russel - K.C. Martel
• Debbie Brody - Elizabeth Hoy
• Curtis Taylor - Billy Jayne
• Steven Seton - Andy Freeman
• Duke Benson - Ben Marley
• Annie Smith - Erica Hope
• Madge - Ellen Geer
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• Willard - Michael Dudikoff
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• Paul - Cyril O'Reilly
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• Girl in van - Sylvia Wright
• Guy in van - John Avery
• Classmate - Shane Butterworth

Release

Bloody Birthday was given a belated limited release

Limited release

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 theatrically in the United States

United States

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 by Rearguard Productions in 1986. It was later released on VHS

VHS

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 by Prism Entertainment in 1986 and Starmaker Entertainment in 1990.

The film was officially released on DVD

DVD

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 by VCI Home Video in 2003.