Review of Happy Death Day (2017) by Thevoidscellar — 22 Oct 2017

Slasher, Thriller, Suspense all this and more in the new movie "Happy Death Day" from the producer of "Get out" and "The Purge" we get this groundhog day movie with a twist of a slasher flick. The movie follows Theresa "Tree" for short, a collage student in a **** fraternity, waking up after a night of partying she heads home and lives out her day like normal, ignoring people and acting like a rude stuck up rich kid. later that night she is tracked down and killed by a baby mask wearing, knife welding stranger. then wakes up and relives the day over and over, all ending with her dying. personally I like this concept, so many ways you can take it, supernatural twist. freak rift in space and time. however this movie takes no side and never reveals why our main character is in this loop. However after some loops she decides to tell the guy she keeps waking up with. he suggests that she needs to find the killer and that will stop the loop. which leads to a funny montage of her going to find people on a "suspect list" then having her die is funny ways. this comedy kinda works, me and my partner were laughing at some of these scenes pretty much because they were so weirdly silly in a dark humour kind of way then having her wake up frustrated with how many times she dies. After figuring out the killer and stopping them, Tree finally celebrates her birthday with the good guy "Carter" finishing up with a happy ending.

ACTING.

Really good actually, I didn't know any of the people in this movie, so assumed they would not be that good, and I think I was wrong I really liked the main character "Tree" played by Jessica Rothe I think she carried this movie being funny sad and stupidly once she starts to go a little insane by being stuck in the loop. the male love interest and good guy in this movie is "Carter" played by Israel Broussard, seeing as he is outside the loop most of his lines in the first act are repeated, however after he starts to believe Tree he has some good acting, being the good guy that helps solve this murder. however nothing amazing here kind of just more then I expected.

DIALOG.

Again not amazing, never did they have interesting conversations, about the scenes, not to mention they didn't explore the killer at all, instead of asking, "How does this person know were you will be no matter what?" they just gloss over it and ppast it up for a **** cliche at the end. nothing memorable here, some funny lines that will get a laugh but nothing to progress the story.

OVERALL.

I enjoyed this movie as a slasher but not overall, I enjoyed the premise and the slasher parts but not all of it, this movie had promise to be a very interesting movie about something supernatural, however chose to stick to a more slasher type film that asks the question "if you were in a slasher movie what would you do?" because Tree knows she will die at the end of the day she can formulate plans to stop it. making the movie aware of the slasher tropes right down to Tree being a blonde victim. which changes by the end.