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Snake5555555555 10/30/19 1:38:34 PM #207:	43. Happy Death Day (17.5 points) Nominated by: Anagram (3/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NTaDm3atkc" data-time=" Importance: 5.5 Fear: 4 Snake: 8 I love time-loop movies, and I love slasher movies, so Happy Death Day was always going to be a recipe for success. While this isn't the first employment of the concept, being experimented with in films like 2009's Triangle or, more closer in spirit to HDD, 2005's Camp Slaughter, Happy Death Day is by far the most successful and well-known use of this story type. The film stars Jessica Rothe as Tree Gelbman, a college party girl who starts off as a haughty, selfish, and apathetic asshole to almost anyone she meets. Her character sticks extremely close to the Bill Murray Groundhog Day model, but Rothe plays it so well I don't even mind. She's an extremely funny, physical, and expressional actress, and I constantly enjoy not only her increasingly exhausted reactions to each and every loop, but her growth and maturity as a character. Slasher movies typically have to waste time building up characters that you don't really care about just to get killed, but Happy Death Day has the benefit of Tree being almost the only character and victim the movie is concerned with. We are with her every step of the way, and her getting killed never stops her constant growth, in fact it only helps us connect with her even more. This is pretty impressive work from a goofy slasher film. On the other hand, the baby-faced killer tries to be iconic, but really only gets half-way there and is far from a house-hold name yet. The film isn't particularly scary but some of the loop endings are still tense and thrilling and will satisfy for the most part. Happy Death Day ultimately isn't concerned with breaking the mold, but using that mold to craft a film that's just a whole load of fun, offers up creative situations, and has one of the best horror protagonists of the decade. --- I try in vain to slumber, my reveries gripped by violent terror. My only salvation, the shock of awakening. Something is very, very wrong here. <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:929433601] in Snake Rank... [t:78055346]...</cite> <quote>43. Happy Death Day (17.5 points) Nominated by: Anagram (3/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NTaDm3atkc" data-time=" Importance: 5.5 Fear: 4 Snake: 8 I love time-loop movies, and I love slasher movies, so Happy Death Day was always going to be a recipe for success. While this isn't the first employment of the concept, being experimented with in films like 2009's Triangle or, more closer in spirit to HDD, 2005's Camp Slaughter, Happy Death Day is by far the most successful and well-known use of this story type. The film stars Jessica Rothe as Tree Gelbman, a college party girl who starts off as a haughty, selfish, and apathetic asshole to almost anyone she meets. Her character sticks extremely close to the Bill Murray Groundhog Day model, but Rothe plays it so well I don't even mind. She's an extremely funny, physical, and expressional actress, and I constantly enjoy not only her increasingly exhausted reactions to each and every loop, but her growth and maturity as a character. Slasher movies typically have to waste time building up characters that you don't really care about just to get killed, but Happy Death Day has the benefit of Tree being almost the only character and victim the movie is concerned with. We are with her every step of the way, and her getting killed never stops her constant growth, in fact it only helps us connect with her even more. This is pretty impressive work from a goofy slasher film. On the other hand, the baby-faced killer tries to be iconic, but really only gets half-way there and is far from a house-hold name yet. The film isn't particularly scary but some of the loop endings are still tense and thrilling and will satisfy for the most part. Happy Death Day ultimately isn't concerned with breaking the mold, but using that mold to craft a film that's just a whole load of fun, offers up creative situations, and has one of the best horror protagonists of the decade. --- I try in vain to slumber, my reveries gripped by violent terror. My only salvation, the shock of awakening. Something is very, very wrong here.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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