Blumhouse | 31 Nights of Horror

For this year’s 31 Nights of Horror Challenge, the Day 10 prompt is Blumhouse. We watched the  movie, Happy Death Day on Amazon Prime Video

Storyline

A teenage girl, trying to enjoy her birthday, soon realizes that this is her final one. That is, if she can figure out who her killer is. She must relive that day, over and over again, dying in a different way each time. Can she solve her own murder?

Out Thoughts on Happy Death Day (2017)

Billed as Groundhog Day with a Hot Chick, this movie was pretty good. It wasn’t your typical slasher flick. I love most of the Blumhouse films and think they are the new wave in horror. Along with Jordan Peele, they do a great job in telling stories that may have been told before in a fresh way. 

6 out of 10

Trivia 

Comic book writer Scott Lobdell said he wanted to play with the tropes of the slasher genre, as according to him “every slasher film opens up with the mean girl getting killed and the good girl living till the end. And he thought, ‘How can I make the mean girl and the good girl the same person?'”

When asked why a baby mask: Christopher Landon says he needed a combination of something that would pass for a mascot on a college campus, that was both scary and funny at the same time, plus he was expecting a son at that time, so he had “baby on the brain.”

The original mascot and mask designed by Tony Gardner for the killer was a pig, a motif already done in the Saw movies.

The scenes where Tree leaves Carter’s dorm room and walks through the campus quad, with the same specific events happening each time (i.e. The couple getting soaked by the sprinklers, the car alarm going off, etc.) took two days to shoot. At one point, the sprinklers malfunctioned and couldn’t be turned off, costing the crew at least an hour of filming until they were finally able to fix it.

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