Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Predrag I love the look of this movie. It has the fuzz look that i associate with 80's slashers on TV. This movie has a couple of good scenes that make it a great addition to your movie collection. A couple that stick out in my mind would be the scene where the little girl charges the boys a quarter to watch her teenage sister dance around topless. Another would be the teacher getting dispatched. The one scene i loved the most would be the kids chasing the kid Timmy i think his name is. He gets close to his house but they catch him and knock him down and start chocking him with a water hose. The ending is great too. The ending isn't something common in these kind of movies.The story is not complex, but the actors do well with what they had to work with, and it all comes across as almost campy fun. The adult actors in the film were quite bad and it seems like the kids were better actors in my opinion and the film had a really low budget. There are some neat and gory death scenes and of course lots of nudity, since no self-respecting 80's slasher flick would dare skip that, but what's really good about the movie is that it shows how manipulative these children are. Not only do all three of them pretend to act innocent and cute to hide their evil deeds, but they know how to prevent anyone from finding anything out, nobody suspects them so it's easier for them to continue killing. Unlike many other horror films from this period, it at least attempts to bring something original and imaginative. For once, the kids acting is good and the entire film has a creepy atmosphere and grizzly music. Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

TheBlueHairedLawyer Bloody Birthday, it cannot be denied, is certainly original. It takes place in a small town where during an eclipse over Saturn, three mothers give birth to two boys and a girl. Timmy, Curtis and Debbie look like normal children, play like normal children... but they're as insidious as the environmental movement as they cause various tragic events in town, from the death of a cop to a comedic yet disturbing incidence of Curtis being a peeping tom. After shooting the maid and locking a little boy in a mini-fridge, only one person gets suspicious, but it proves very difficult to get the townsfolk to listen.Why do these three little creeps have such violent actions? They were born when Saturn was covered in the eclipse, somehow leaving them lacking in emotion.Bloody Birthday is by no means perfect in fact. For one thing, the children supposedly have no emotions, yet they show a great level of sadism, they laugh and plan and fear together, they're friends with one another, they sure do love looking at Curtis' sister through the hole in his closet, all implying that they are heavily disturbed but certainly not unemotional.Bloody Birthday is like Mikey (1992), The Paper Boy (1994), Village of the Damned (1995) and The Bad Seed (1956). It's a typical killer kid movie but goes a little bit beyond so there is a small element of surprise. The soundtrack was okay, the acting not too bad, and I found it hilarious and cheesy. I recommend watching it with that in mind, it is an extremely cheesy but entertaining horror film.

Lee Eisenberg Alright! I've seen many a flick about murderous children, but Ed Hunt's "Bloody Birthday" has to be the coolest. It focuses on three children who were born during an eclipse that blocked Saturn, thereby depriving them of emotions, and so they go around killing people.There are some neat death scenes (and of course some nudity, since no self-respecting '80s slasher flick would dare skip that), but what's really good about the movie is that it shows how manipulative these children are. Not only do all three of them have cherubic faces to hide their evil deeds, but they know how to prevent anyone from finding anything out: that scene with the cake really had me going! As for the cast, it's a real treat. Playing a doctor is Cyrano de Bergerac himself, José Ferrer. Playing a teacher is Susan Strasberg (yes, the daughter of the guy who played Hyman Roth in "The Godfather Part II"); in fact, her character is named Viola Davis, which is the name of the co-star of "Doubt" and "The Help"! There's also Ellen Geer (Will Geer's daughter), Michael Dudikoff (known for action flicks), and K.C. Martel (Greg in "E.T."). Julie Brown, who has what is probably the coolest scene in the movie, is apparently a gay icon, although I'd never known about her before watching "Bloody Birthday".All in all, it's a really fun movie. Not any kind of masterpiece, but definitely a pleasure to watch. Just be careful the next time that you eat cake.

Scott LeBrun The amusingly sleazy and tasteless "Bloody Birthday" is solid entertainment for fans of the "killer kiddie" genre. It deals with a trio of psychotic children all born during a solar eclipse, who begin a murder spree short of their tenth birthdays. It's up to a neighbourhood girl named Joyce (Lori Lethin, "Return to Horror High") and her kid brother Timmy (K.C. Martel, "The Amityville Horror" '79) to do something about this.Now, there isn't going to be a lot of grisliness for the gore hounds to enjoy, although there's one amusing arrow-through-the-eyeball gag. The body count isn't particularly high, and the kills aren't exactly on the creative side. The movie does make up for this by having tykes as the killers, and there's an irresistibly trashy feel to the whole damn enterprise: for one thing, one of the kids takes payment from the others for the chance to ogle her older sister, through a peep hole, as she does some dancing in the nude. (Future MTV personality Julie Brown fulfills this requirement satisfactorily.)Provided one is into warped premises such as this, they should get a kick out of seeing children delight in dispatching teens and adults. Elizabeth Hoy and Billy Jayne are good as Debbie and Curtis; her blonde moppet has "bad seed" written all over her and he makes his character such an annoying little creep. Andy Freeman as Steven doesn't come off as well but then not very much is done with his character. Lethin is an appealing heroine, and does a good job of selling the far-fetched idea that because these kids were born during a solar eclipse, it means they now exist without consciences. Jose Ferrer is wasted in an almost nothing part as the doctor who delivered the kids in the first place, but Susan Strasberg is a hoot as a frosty teacher. Other familiar faces in the cast include Joe Penny of 'Riptide' and 'Jake and the Fatman' (although he's barely in the movie) as Joyces' college adviser, the American Ninja himself, Michael Dudikoff, as Browns' boyfriend, Cyril O'Reilly ("Porky's") as Joyces' guy, and Ellen Geer ("Harold and Maude") as Madge."Bloody Birthday" is a fine diversion for horror aficionados, from director Ed Hunt who also gave the world "Starship Invasions" and "The Brain". It runs a very reasonable 85 minutes, coming up with good scenes like one that utilizes the old idea of being stuck inside an abandoned refrigerator, and another where Curtis and Steven try to run Joyce down with a car. It's great stuff right up until its fairly frustrating ending.Eight out of 10.