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Released
1981 · FILM

Happy Birthday to Me

An elite high school student with a secret past spirals into terror as her classmates are brutally murdered in the days leading up to her 18th birthday, with suspicion falling on her as she struggles with mysterious blackouts.

Six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see.

Directed by
Runtime
110 min
HorrorMysteryThriller

Synopsis

Virginia is part of an elite group of top students at a private school, a fact she takes pride in. However, as she approaches her 18th birthday, a series of brutal murders begins, and her friends become the victims. Suspicion falls on her, especially as she experiences frequent blackouts stemming from a freak accident that occurred a year earlier. As the story unfolds, the truth behind the accident and the ongoing events is gradually revealed.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Debra KarenShot by Miklos LenteScored by Bo HarwoodDesigned by Earl G Preston

Box Office

1981 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.6M

Budget$3.5M
Worldwide gross$10.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ab in die Ewigkeitde
  • Happy Birthday : Souhaitez ne jamais être invitéfr
  • Compleanno di sangueit

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