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Bloody Birthday

German title: Angst
Francaise title: Les tueurs de l’eclipse
Spain title: Cumpleaños sangriento
Russian title: Кровавый день рождения
Original title: Bloody Birthday

Alternative titles:
Kinder des Teufels | Totale Angst über der Stadt

Horror movie – USA
Production year: 1980
Movie length: 85 minutes

Director: Ed Hunt
Writer: Ed Hunt, Barry Pearson

Movie description:

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.

Sort of a triple-threat Bad Seed with a more overtly violent streak, this film tells the tale of trio of cherubic youngsters whose births all coincided with a solar eclipse, which somehow initiated a kind of time-release evil reaction that reaches its climax on the kids’ tenth birthday, causing them to transform into miniature homicidal psychopaths. These darling little tykes then proceed to beat dad’s brains out with a baseball bat, gun down their teacher, and otherwise beat, stab and strangle anyone who even looks cross-eyed at them. They also seem to be strangely fond of leering at naked teenage girls... or maybe that’s just the director’s favorite pastime. Produced in 1980, this proto-slasher opus was shelved for six years, then released to video to capitalize on the already-waning trend of »Friday the 13th« sequels and their hellish offspring.

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