Happy Birthday to Me

Upstate New York. Autumn. A twig snaps. Virginia Wainwright seems like any other Chilton Academy student, yet she's haunted by repressed trauma and a surgery to correct her "psychological problems." As her birthday nears, her social circle is targeted by a mysterious killer. A late slasher notable for its aggressive gore gags.

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J. Lee Thompson directed Happy Birthday to Me in 1981. See J. Lee Thompson's full filmography, where to start with J. Lee Thompson, or where to go after you've seen everything by J. Lee Thompson.

Happy Birthday to Me was released in 1981 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 110 minutes.