Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
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- The Return Of The Son Of Canuxsploitation-A-Thon continues with the 1981 slasher movie "Happy Birthday To Me"!
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Although this movie may not have lived up to its poster tagline, what are your favorite horror movie kills?
Phantasm ball to the forehead
Hi comrade, review space amoeba
Anything with a decapitation is good enough for me!
Jason Voorhees punching a guy's head clean off with 1 swing
Mst3k joke whatever happened to impratiabilty the milkman the paperboy mac and/or me?🤣
brandon is adorable. he's like an angry luke skywalker
How is he a doorbell?!?! Even though I'm blind I know that's ridiculous.
Though he is really hot.
@Brian Babin yeah what the name of the theme
@@drmixer826 Proctor by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
@RavnDream he more like a chilled smartass
Mary is repressing all those years on the prairie, when her parents loved Laura more than her.
They clunked her noggin and she saw again.
Yeah but the used a high precision medical mallet, the operation being performed by Doctor Cletus.
so that's why she looked so familiar to me!
Was hoping to see someone mention Little House. Comments did not disappoint.
@David Parry That's the Waltons. May be missing the joke, but in case anyone missed the reference.
That guy was an idiot for working on a motorcycle while wearing a scarf anyway.
Hey, it was the 80s, and he was a preppy Canadian. He couldn't have taken it off if he'd _wanted_ to.
Isadora Duncan, that's all I'm gonna say.
@@Alevamltd Ha! I came here to say that!
Bugatti! Bugaaaattiiii!
No capes!
Hell, as a kid raised in Michigan in the 70's, we knew not to wear scarves while using the tow ropes skiing! Being just 6 inches from a spinning motorcycle wheel was completely insane!
Scooby Doo ending. "And I'd have got away with it anyway if it wasn't for you dang kids". 🤣
Without Canada (and Italy), we wouldn't have had Halloween and Friday the 13th.
Thanks Canada (and Italy)!
Mst3k joke believe it or not I'm not William katt 🤣
@@mikesilva3868 no your mike silva
Canada (and Italy): your welcome
@@haysongarrido542 🤣
Halloween came out in 1978
A side note for why this movie has garnered a cult following: for those who were suffering from the strangest case of deja vu over the ending, just imagine Virginia's name is Sidney & Ann's name is Billy. Yep, Wes Craven's slasher homage Scream took it's twist ending from Happy Birthday to Me.
Yeah, first thing I thought when Scream did its reveal too. "Wait, this shit again?"
Damn, nothing is original, we peaked in the mid eighties....! 🐯🐯🐯
@@hanniffydinn6019 True, but Scream was never really meant to be original. Wes openly admitted it was made as an homage to the genre, & he purposely put Easter eggs all over the movies for fans to recognize. Some were obvious (1& 2's opening scenes lifted from When a Stranger Calls & He Knows You're Alone) to the funny (Wes himself as a janitor named Fred) to the "I see what you did there!" (Mrs. Loomis as the killer avenging her son's death in Scream 2 is a nod to both Psycho & Friday the 13th).
There's a possibility HBTM ending wasn't even original, another film Madhouse released the same year had the very similar ending was Italian and US production co- production.
Not exactly the same circumstance shade. Mainly because scream had two killers.
LoL, love that Scooby Doo style mask reveal at the end. Maybe the cops should have called Mystery Inc on this one.
In my early days in Hollywood, just out of film school, one of the producers of this film came to me to write an early draft for a horror movie idea he was doing with Melissa Sue Anderson. His idea was a Coke bottle being shoved down a guy's throat. I complained that it wasn't much of a plot device and didn't get the job. Now, if he had said shish-kabob skewer... I still would have given him shit. The writer they got knew how to play the situation and I commend him for it. Thank you for profiling a second film I had a minor connection with.
"wasn't much of a plot device"?
His idea was a Coke bottle being shoved down a guy's throat.
Today, the remake of this movie would have the dude going to meet The Reaper after having a Red Bull shoved up his butt
@@MechaJutaro Nah. It would have gone straight to Full Moon for production and release? :P
I think the coke bottle world have worked better. There would be people in film schools saying how the film criticised capitalist culture. 🤣
7:38 Jesus, that hawk just spat red food dye into that poor man's eye.
How rude!
Don't you just hate it when that happens? Happened to me last week!
The vhs cover is why I eat my shishkebab with a fork.
You are kept awake during a craniotomy, btw.
Sean Ashmead what the hell. Why
@@remlezar9397 I bet there are all sorts of explanations. All of them red herrings to distract you from the fact that they keep you awake so they know they've damaged your brain beyond repair if you start having a seizure.
@Marisa In cases where a tumour is located close to regions of the brain responsible for essential functions such as language, cognition, sensation, and body movement, patients are kept awake (albeit mildly sedated) during the procedure in order to allow the surgeons to identify and map out those critical areas prior to removing any brain tissue. This is achieved by having the patient perform various tasks (reading, counting, &c.) whilst specific areas of the brain are stimulated, and allows the surgical staff to remove the tumour (or as much of it as is possible) without inadvertently damaging the areas identified during this intraoperative mapping process. It may be worth noting that the brain itself contains no pain receptors, and as the patient’s scalp is anaesthetised prior to the opening of the skull, there should be no pain or tactile awareness of the brain surgery itself.
@@bryangarcia5599 fascinating. Yet highly disturbing.
@@remlezar9397 It`s so they can poke at stuff in your head and do stuff like make you laugh and cry at the same time and make terrible jokes like "oops" and "is that thing supposed to be in there? LoL, idk dude, lets remove it just in case"
4:44
Usually when you see a Trans-Am do a stunt like that you have a Pontiac Bonneville in hot pursuit.
Am I the only one who thought this was him announcing that it was his birthday?
No, I thought that too. Both are equally good reasons to click on the vid :=)
I am also on this train lol
me to lol
Does anyone know when it is?
fun fact about the character Maggie in this movie, shes played by Lenore Zann, a voice actress who has a ton of credits, including Rogue on the 90s X-men cartoon
3:08 Woah, that lady pulled a Hannibal!
But seriously, it's a rare occasion when someone tries to play dead when getting strangled in horror or action movies
I actually thought it was your birthday for a second
I got to give it to Melissa Sue Anderson. Whether on Little House or other films, she's a very very very talented actress
She's really pretty too wonder why she never had a big career
When I was ten, I made my father take me and my older brother to see this instead of 'Stir Crazy'. I have no regrets.
Ann being the killer would make for a good twist if it was actually planned
Cool, a birthday themed horror movie on my birthday. Best way to start the day.
Happy belated birthday! Yesterday was my bday as well. 😊
same, missed this upload though.
9:06 Jack Blum is doing his best Jeffrey Combs impersonation in this scene!!!
Brandon: uploads a review of Happy birthday to me on my birthday.
Me: A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Happy belated Birthday!
I hope you had a good one.
O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all of us command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Only in Canada will parents get mad about their child not being popular, they’d play Chicken on a moving bridge.
all the hockey rinks were closed... and the bridge was not.
I saw this movie way back when on a cable TV station called “Scream TV” (I think it was later re-branded to Dusk TV).
For some reason this one stuck out, I guess I found some of the deaths memorable and the twist was absurd.
Didn’t realize it was a Canadian film, neat to learn!
3:20 Judging by that hand and that razor blade,
The killer is Peter Neal from Tenebre!
(Loud whispering) _”That’s right, I’m the killer”_ (axe whack to the head)
My Bloody Valentine is seriously underrated
"Officer I can explain, I was originally supposed to kill all these people." - Classic Brandon.
I mean, very often horror movies end with the final girl surrounded by corpses and clearly in need of a lawyer but the movies treat the scene like a happy ending.
This one was, weirdly enough, more realistic.
@@edisonlima4647 Well, there's probably blood spray on Ann's hands, plus residue of spirit gum from the mask on her face, plus remnants of the mask itself. A tough sell and no one's gonna believe her at first, but I'm sure if you backtrack her movements from the last week or so, Ann has more than enough blood-stained stuff scattered here and there for a jury if not the DA to drop charges against Ginny.
@@astrocitizen Not if they decided she did it. It's not like the system hasn't railroaded people. They want convictions,, dammit! Justice for Ginny!
Wouldn't go that far sockery.
@@astrocitizen Ann took off the second complect of the clothes, the remnants of the mask, wig and carried it somewhere behind Virginia (probably to burn it off-screen), so there's no evidence. Also Ann wore the gloves to cover her fingerprints and the ceremonial knife has been taken by Ginny, so they've got her traces instead. And let's not forget that Amelia (the blonde girl outside) survived the night and definitely saw "Ginny" in the cottage around the corpses - that explains her catatonic reaction => one voice against in the court and others living members of the top ten also thought she's weird, so there's no much defense from them either.
You just gotta admit that Ann is one of the few (if not the only one) killers from slashers that actually won and got posthumous karma Houdini.
I was only half paying attention, but that giant mantis woke me up quick!
It's one of the better Slashers of the 80's, I liked the story, the ending is kinda questionable but overall I still think the movie holds up and is better than most of the horror thrillers today to me.
Me: happy birthday Brendan! 🎂
Watches video for more then 10 seconds then I realized it’s not your birthday.....🤦🏼♂️
Also, his name isn’t Brendan soooooo......
Tamatah, Clamato.
Wait does Brandon have a female counterpart from another dimension, if that is the case than what would she look like?
I watched it on Betamax back in the day and I loved it!
3:35 I wish there was a “ decapitation” sound bite..
LOL
I would thought "Psych" would have been a better fit? (at the end when Ann is revealed)? :P
2:15 She totally hit her with the "Lionel, take me home".
18:26 At that point I was expecting the twist to be that Ginny had a twin sister that she forgot about due to the repressed memories. The twin shared her mother's anger over no one showing up to her and Ginny's 14th birthday, so she killed the kids supposed to go to their birthday. She was locked up somewhere until now, and killed Ginny's friends so she wouldn't celebrate her birthday alone again.
To be fair, this isn't exactly an original idea. It's partially inspired by the twist in To The Moon and Gravity Falls.
That's actually the whole plot of another 80's slasher called "the Initiation". The main heroine had a twin sister, who attacked the lover of their mother when they were kids. That resulted in some memory problems for the protagonist and a lock-up in the looney bin for antagonist. The lover and their mom became officially married and their real dad, who burned up in the fight, became the garden keeper at the same asylum his daughter was. When the movie begins, the crazy twin escapes and starts killing all of her sister's friends, planning to pin it all on their dad (who was the √1 red herring throughout the movie) and eventually take her sister's place.
That would have made so much more sense, it's too bad they didn't thought of it earlier!
Seriously one of my top 3 channels I'm subscribed too. Always entertaining, never over the top, jokes that'd I'd hear from my own fitness/family, and always great choices in flicks! Thanks Brandon, stay awesome!
Anyone else want to see a collab between Brandon and James from Dead Meat one day. I know i would love the potential between the two.
I Know it's not your birthday, but dammit - Happy Birthday
The most bizarre moment in this movie was the bit where the dog leash, which was tied to the collar of the dog, and also being held by the old woman, somehow managed to lasso itself around the girl's leg like Indiana Jones' bullwhip.
3:21
Well, the other girl from Little House on the Prairie voiced Batgirl on Batman TAS, so close enough I guess.
That and the adopted brother Albert was apparently Jaden in yugioh and competed in the atari world championships....
The backstory and motivation of the killer in Scream was stolen from this one.
Yeah. It seems like a lot of movies.borrowed heavily from this one
@@michellemckillop8935 it was one of the early ones and got fair bit of attention on release i remember the first time i watched it, it kept reminding me of other movies. wasnt until i saw the date that i realized they were like it instead haha.
@@wugglesx it’s funny too bc Melissa sue Anderson has played mean roles and it would’ve been fine for her to have been the killer. I even heard she was mean on the set of little house.
@@michellemckillop8935 right? its kind of like they got rid of a decent ending just to add an extra twist because "surprising" lol.
@@wugglesx yeah:( she played a bad witch in a made for TV movie. It was pretty good
The McGill joke killed me 🤣 wait.... is Brandon the killer....
Well, Brandon had a "stalker" there for a bit, so ... ? XD
2:04, Matt Craven from Jacob's Ladder and Crimson Tide.
Also "Meatballs" and "Devil".
Indian Summer
love your videos and you have so many funny 'catch phrases/actions" that I look for them in every episode!
4:30 Fast And The Furious - Toronto Drift
How did I miss this yesterday, on my actual birthday? 😂I'm pretty sure I actually saw the movie as a kid in the 80s or early 90s. Edit: yep, I remember the flashback with the mom and the ending. Another great vid! Hilarious that it was posted on my bday. 😂😂
i'm not even a real horror fan and even I've heard of this movie. thanks for watching it for me.
You have GOT to do Scanners one of these days! Gotta love that ephemerol.
Happy Birthday dude!!
Edit:Oh
This was one of the horror films that i first saw during the Movie nights that my Church Youth Group use to show. The first time I saw it, I had no idea what was happening . But it grown on me .
Your church actually showed horror movies? The church-minded indviduals on my country's censor board would have a meltdown years ago whenever a horror movie was shown because of the "corrupting influences" being shown. And yet adult movies got by them. Figures. ;)
I remember watching this movie on "Fear.net" on demand. Pretty interesting movie. But learning about how the movie was intended to end with Ginny being the killer being possessed by her crazy Mother actually makes me why they changed it at the last minute and added this "Half Sister" ending. he original ending would've been a great deviation from the traditional "Final Girl" storyline. Great episode man.
This was a great walk down memory lane for me because I remember going to theater to see this movie when it was first released. And yes some of the kills were interesting for the time.
Thanks Brandon
Happy late 4th of July, Brandon!
7:30, hey, SUPERMAN'S dad!
This is hilarious! I watched this movie while bored one day years ago and kept cracking up on it because they were trying to be so serious lol.
Thank you for always covering stuff that deserves attention Brandon
"Holy shit, I think Marty's the killer." I love that joke Brandon. Keep it up.
Could I explain the joke
I mean you
I love this film. The highlights are the birthday party, the cake, Melissa, the first scene. The score, the gym guy getting it. The jump over the bridge, flashbacks the dissection of the frog very scary in 1981. I didn't know the killers identity I was looking elsewhere. Surprised.
Ahh. Love the Slaughter High call back
Anyone lifting weights isn't going to freak out. You lower the bar to your chest and roll it to your knees, stand up and put it on the floor. Worst case, since the collars weren't used, you dump the weights one side at a time.
Happy Belated Canada Day.
Notice that the words "Little House On The Prairie" are not uttered once during this review. Why that is can be left as an exercise for the viewer.
Brandon's too young perhaps???
@Red Siegfried Whoa, whoa, whoa - I know this is a channel largely focused on gory, sleazy, outrageous horror films and all, but some things are just _too_ horrific to be mentioned, even here!
Pa would be so disappointed!
15:30 Damn that brings me back to one of the first videos of yours I watched and it’s still one of my favorites.
This was a favorite Blockbuster rental around Halloween for me in the mid-80's.
Huh, I would have thought the twist would be she was actually her mother, like the experimental treatment made her younger and they were lying to her or they had to use bits of her mother's brain to supplement what she'd lost, and the mother's personality was taking over to commit the murders. It'd be kinda a goofy twist, but it'd work better withwhat was there.
11:58, Jesus, really!? Wow, guess he REALLY needed that check.
The cartoonation of the cover is hilarious. But it's actually a great psychological horror.
You should review 10 to Midnight sometime, another (sort of) slasher directed by J. Lee Thompson.
I heard about this movie, bit I never got a chance to see it .
It's merely okay. The poster really bothered me when I was little.
KJ Beast There are three more movies that feature the birthday theme, while also being horror films; ‘Bloody Birthday’, ‘The Birthday’ and, ‘Happy Birthday’, all early 80’s to 2016 films. Although those last two are horror, while also being comedy films. ‘Bloody Birthday’ is a horror film that shows three naturally born serial killers at their most destructive while barely being of kid age, and terrorizing anyone they come across in their neighborhood and than some, in part, on their birthday. It’s good for what it was wanting to accomplish. Especially since you want someone to just destroy the kids while watching it, because they’re such monsters. And the kid actors playing the three psychopaths are able to pull off terrifying.
I saw the title and thought it was his birthday
just FYI I was born on the 4th of July and you released this on my birthday, so thanks for the birthday present Brandon I appreciate it
Went to the to theater to see this film in '81. Downtown, classic style movie theater. (The Laurel Theater, NJ)
I was around 15 then, and a big-time Rock n Roll & horror flick fan. So, me and a friend would go down to see a movie once in a while, but we would first obtain a couple of 32oz. Malt liquor bottles and down 'em in the back alley of the theater just before showtime. Buzz!!
This was 1980-81, and along with "Happy Birthday To Me" (which I still love), we also went to see "Night School," w/Rachel Ward, "Heavy Metal" and "The Howling" (among others)
It was a groovy old fashioned movie theater, and we always made sure to "feel groovy" when we went in!
Good times, gone forever, but not forgotten.
M
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Happy birthday, have a copy of Nukie from me!
I see the title as Happy Birthday Tome., like an ancient book about happy birthdays.
birthdaynomicon: The last happy birday of your life
Hey, i actually saw a good (or maybe not terrible) Asylum movie. it was called Dragon Crusaders and the CGI dragon was good in some scenes.
Winston the English Bulldog is adorbs! Such floppy JOWLS! >W
Hey it’s my birthday today.. Nice. Or not. Hmmm. Oh well.
Congrats!
Happy belated Birthday, bday twin! 🙂
Lyndell Robinson Happy Belated birthday to you too!! Haha :)
You should review Night of The Lepus
I'm sure he'll hop right on that.
2:01: hey! it's my uncle, Traveling Matt Craven
Even though some of the kills in this movie weren't as graphic(at all, lol) as some other movies, the ending of this one will always send chills down your spine to me. Great Review, you don't see a lot of people talking about this one. I wanna see Dracula 3D real bad, I know it's probably not that great but I'm just a big Dario Argento fan!
Brandon, I dare you to review "The Curse of the Mummy Cat". It is a movie so bad that there's not even an IMDb page for it. If you can actually sit through it, you'll have enough material for 3-4 videos. People who claim that such-and-such movie is "the worst movie ever made" have no idea what a truly bad movie is. In fact, for the rest of your life, when you watch a bad film, you'll be able to say "Well, this movie was bad, but it's still not as bad as The Curse of the Mummy cat."
In fact, I hesitate to even call it a movie really, but it was promoted as such and sold on DVD so I guess it qualifies.
Nope. The girl in the rain was smacked with an axe in a cut scene by the railings.
Great channel. Appreciate the humor and insightful commentary. Obvious that a lot of effort is put into these videos.
I like it. I saw it when it first came out. The two Jennys was definitely a WTF moment. And your video was as usual Brandon, awesome. Be safe and well my friend up there in the Great White North. Can't wait till the next one ✌💗🤗🤗🤗🙏🙏🙏
9:05, Silence Of The Lambs reference.
Are you kidding? Silence of the lambs came out years after this movie
And Happy belated Canada Day to you too!
Oh man, am I glad you are reviewing this movie. Scarf kill was a favorite of mine. Very happy that I got the bluray with everything including the soundtrack intact
Haha! the Pro Jared reference XD absolutely spot-on though, thought the same before you even said it. That and the fact there was disco music playing in 1981.
Happy Birthday, B
OMG! For 35 years I have been wondering WTF was that film I saw when I was 5-6 and finally I have closure! You see, my older sister was babysitting my brother and I and after we were put to bed she put on a movie she had rented. I was intrigued as she would not let us watch it with her because it was a scary movie not for kids. Jokes on her as I had already seen Halloween and Friday the 13th 1-3, and loved "scary films" so I faked sleeping and snuck out of my room and watched from around the corner. All I remember of the film was a a death by being pulled into a wheel by his scarf, someone getting skewered with a kabob steak (which scarred me from eating kabobs for years), and a a guy pulling out an eyeball from a decapitated woman's head on a platter. Needless to say when I first saw the new intro to The Return Of The Son Of Canuxsploitation-A-Thon, I KNEW that the mystery movie from my youth would be finally revealed and today was the day! Fanfuckentastic Brandon!! 🤟😎
Edit: I have been watching this channel for years, hoping that eventually one day one of your cult movie reviews would cover this mystery movie!
Totally missed a chance to play Mission Impossible music when that rubber mask comes off.
Remember seeing this one at the video store when I was a kid in the 1980s. Thanks for the review and looking forward to the next one.
Big fan and I love the movies you review,
to help me see what could be good and not to be expected.
The music at 6:22 make me think John Candy was going to show up and start shoving a birthday cake directly at the screen.
This was my mom's favorite horror movie back in the day.
This is way better than either Prom Night or Terror Train.
Happy belated Canada Day!
That was a high-quality bulldog.. but someone needed to nordge its nose, wudgle its ears and soundly fibberbibulate its lip-flaps (also apply scritchin's wherever needed).. That's important bulldog maintenance.
14:24 yaaass the accent has returned in all its glory
The Dr. Who cosplayer is Matt Craven, who isn’t related to Wes Craven interestingly enough. Out of any actor from this film, he’s probably had the longest career in film. He played Shia Lebouef’s dad in the mid-level Disturbia from 2007.