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Happy Birthday to Me, a review by Jimmy

                             
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Title: Happy Birthday to Me
Year: 1980
Genre: Slasher Movie
Director: J. Lee Thompson (Battle for the Planet of the Apes)         
Rating: R
Length: 1h51
Video: Widescreen
Audio: English
Subtitles: English, Japanese and Spanish

Stars:
Melissa Sue Anderson (Little House on the Prairie)
Glenn Ford (Superman)
Tracy Bregman (The Young and the Restless)
Lawrence Dane (Scanners)
Lisa Langlois (Class of 1984)   

Plot:
Popular high school senior Virginia Wainwright (Melissa Sue Anderson) survives a freak accident, but suffers from memory loss and traumatic blackouts.  As she attempts to resume a normal life, something terrible is happening -- her friends are ruthlessly murdered one-by-one.  Will she be the next victim or is she the killer?  The terrifying truth is finally uncovered at Virginia's 18th birthday party...and you're invited.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKLMUnw2ag

(From The little known movie review depot on February 5th, 2008)

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, a review by Rich

Title: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Movie Count:10 
TV Ep. Count:8 

Runtime:100
Certificate:R
Year:1998
Genres:Horror, Suspense/Thriller

Plot:Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Brandy, and Mekhi Phifer star in the screamer sequel to the blood-chilling box office hit I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Remember Ben Willis?  He's the fisherman who killed the boy who was driving the car when it went off the road in the fatal accident that killed his daughter Sara…he's the man in the slicker with a hook in his hand ready to exact bloody  justice.  Well, he's back.                   
It's hard to forget a man who refuses to die.

My Review:
Weak sequel, ridiculously obvious but at times unintentionally belly chuckling hilarious.
Hewitt is unconvincing, and popstar Brandy patheitic in this wet and drippy film that is wrongly tagged a horror movie. The 'killer' dressed as a fisherman is wholly comical, and the 'twist' in the tail signposted after about 20 minutes.
On the plus side some parts were so ridiculous they were funny, and I didn't realise Jack Black also appeared in this flick as a weed smoking rasta.
Bad - even for a sequel.






(From Rich's October Horror Fest on October 9th, 2009)

Smallville Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

EPISODE 20: FADE
Now you see him, now you don't. A hitman who has the power of invisibility decides to help Clark reunite with Lana by making Lex disappear... permanently. Plus: Is the Fine-Lex conspiracy taking shape?

My Thoughts:
This is a good episode... but again one that is nothing very special. Just another basic good episode.

EPISODE 21: ORACLE
He looks like Jonathan. But his message perplexes Clark: Would his father's ghost really send him on a murder mission? Fine obtains the vaccine he seeks. And Kryptonian symbols spell out a warning.

My Thoughts:
This one was good episode... it really set up the season finale well. It was nice to see John Schnider in an episode again.

EPISODE 22: VESSEL
Meet superpowered Lex, the host vessel of ZOD! Clark can stop Zod's vendetta...if he's willing to kill Lex. Lana stands by her man, Fine releases an electronic virus, and Clark - well, see it for yourself.

My Thoughts:
Once again a season of Smallville concludes with a really good cliffhanger episode. I am really looking forward to the season 6 release next month now!



(From Smallville Marathon on August 12th, 2007)