Review #49: Happy Death Day (2017)
This review was originally written in October 2017. Horror Movie October day 23: Happy Death Day All in all I thought this was a fun movie and I really enjoyed it. That being said, it wasn't incredibly deep and there were a few goofy logistical errors in it but it did some new things that I wasn't expecting. I think it's safe to say that it's only natural to compare this to Groundhog Day- the movie even (briefly) does the same- but inviting that comparison is kind of a risky move because everything the two movies have in common was almost unanimously done better in Groundhog Day. For anyone who isn't familiar with this film, it's about a college sorority girl who wakes up on her birthday, has kind of a bad day, and then a masked individual shows up and kills her. She wakes up, however, and it's the same day, again. She lives the same day over and over, and each time she gets killed again and again, and so she has to find out who her killer is and how to avoi...