Happy Birthday

Name: Happy Birthday
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: September 9, 2016
Duration: 90 min

2016

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: September 9, 2016 | R

Summary: When Brady Baxter finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him, his best friend Tommy Quinn decides the only way to get his mind off of it is to take a drug-fueled, death defying journey into the sweaty black heart of darkness that is Mexicali. This is not Tijuana, this is not your fathers Mexico. Things turn beyond twisted when they meet aWhen Brady Baxter finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him, his best friend Tommy Quinn decides the only way to get his mind off of it is to take a drug-fueled, death defying journey into the sweaty black heart of darkness that is Mexicali. This is not Tijuana, this is not your fathers Mexico. Things turn beyond twisted when they meet a back alley tour guide named "The Mexican Cowboy", who takes them down the rabbit hole, that is the seediest parts of Mexicali. Cock fights, Shamans, and a make-shift strip club called "Chocho Fuego", it looks to be the most insane birthday celebration in recent memory. When they meet two American girls and head to a desolate hotel, the night is about to end with a bang. Soon, it's clear the girls have other ideas. Sex games, drugs, torture, eventually held for ransom by the Mexican drug cartel. How did Brady's birthday dream turn into his worst nightmare?… Expand

Director: Casey Tebo

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Noel Murray

Sep 8, 2016

From the overwritten, pop-culture-reference-laden dialogue to the incessant attempts to be shocking, Happy Birthday tries way too hard. For a movie that doesn’t have much to say, it sure never stops jabbering. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Sep 11, 2016

A bizarre mixture of black comedy and horror/suspense, Happy Birthday is a juvenile effort that at least has the decency to make its American and Mexican characters look equally bad. Read full review

Wes Greene

Sep 6, 2016

It plays like it was written by a bro who just discovered the early films of Quentin Tarantino. Read full review

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BitsOfSkin

Jan 23, 2017

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The movie itself was about as bland as a **** Z-grade movie can be, but the ending just made me want to slap the director and script writers a few times and ask them in what kind of insane universe people would continue being friends after someone pulls something along the lines of what this crock of **** puts forth...
I can't even be bothered to go into too much detail, because even after re-watching some key scenes it remained a vague POS that only got some level of clarity at the end.
It's as if the director was trying to go for a buddy movie, then decided to make it a horror film, then went 'oh wait, maybe arthouse', then watched some of the weirder Italian horror flicks of the 70's and 80's, etc. etc. etc.

It's a mishmash of weird influences that clash, and ultimately fail to impress due to the lacklustre execution, and downright 'LOLNOPE.EXE' story.… Expand

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