Happy Death Day (2017)

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"Would you stop looking at me like I just took a dump on your mom's head?" - Tree Gelbman

The most exciting part of Happy Death Day - in addition to the title and the premise of which is the middle of the film, around the 40s to 50s. Here the movie really embraced the idea, aware of the silliness of the premise and then into a silly nan fun movie as sold by the trailer that is also so silly nan fun until I buy with passion. The beginning and the end? Half cooked and quite boring.

You may have heard that this movie is a kind of combination between Groundhog Day and Scream . For our main character, Tree ( Jessica Rothe ), birthday does not happen once a year but every day. And unfortunately again, on every birthday he was killed. So in short, Tree will die every day. For one thing or another, Tree realizes that to stop this curse, he must find the killer.

The good touch is that the filmmakers seem to be aware of the fact that the audience knows the absurdity of this concept (even they've been playing with us through the Universal logo before the movie starts). Setup is a true horror cliche: our heroine is a sexy blonde girl, our villain is a silly masked killer, and his weapon, what else if not, a kitchen knife. Sounds promising, but unfortunately execution is not wholeheartedly, both in the aspect of comedy and horror. This is a silly movie that thinks it's smart just because it's self-aware .

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At first, Tree did not know that he had just Groundhog Day . She woke up in her plain schoolhouse friend Carter ( Israel Broussard ) after an all-night party. Since getting in touch with a geeky man can ruin his reputation as a supergaul girl, Tree tells Carter not to tell anyone. On the way back to the dormitory, Tree experienced a variety of things: getting a call from the father (which he later ignored), watching the students busy in the school yard, refusing the birthday cupcake offered by his roommate Lori ( Ruby Modine ), with his gang mem- a friend, flirting with the teacher ( Charles Aitken ), until, of course, massacred by a murderer wearing mascot mask school masks.

source image But Tree's life is not over yet. He woke back in Carter's room. He heard the same words of Carter, saw the same student preoccupation, and accepted the same cupcake offer, until then Tree realized that everything that happened on her birthday was repeated again, one by one, with the same end. He tried various scenarios so as not to get tragically killed, but wherever and however, the killer can always find him. The idea came to reveal who the killer was so that he could avoid death and hopefully also stop the cycle of death.

But instead of kids now dong era if not living in the moment ? So instead of a real life-related terror, we'll find a silly moment in which the Tree does whatever it can do while living without consequences. Fart in the restaurant? Walking naked at school? Jessica Rothe successfully made the Tree character bitchy enough to be hated and quite likeable to be made cares. He is very expressive showing various emotions in living a repetitive day, ranging from panic, indifference, to sympathy. This excitement successfully masks the fact that there is hardly any definite mechanism in the repetition of Tree's life other than it will awaken the same day after it has been killed. There's no need to try to guess how or who the killer is because in the end it's all absurd. The actions of the characters are often very stupid.

While he is not entirely a meta movie, it is not as serious as it is to present a horror sequence that really feels scary or just tense. Suspens almost nil when our main character was deliberately conditioned as a jerk who basically have many enemies who want to kill him. Scream does it more brilliantly. Aspects of self-awareness of the film Wes Craven is more venomous, while still successfully make us confused about the massacre committed by the killer.

Is experiencing something repetitive but realizing that barely being able to do something intelligent to her does not make Tree weary? Just at the end of the film, Tree admits that she has never seen Groundhog Day . "Ehm, serious?" Asked a friend hesitantly. Maybe this is a meta comment from the filmmaker. The target audience is a contemporary teenager who most likely has not watched Groundhog Day . For them this is not a problem.

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