After a series of strange deaths, a teen learns her brother and his best friends are all involved in a murderous crime spree and must find a way to stop them before the spree continues.This was quite a disturbing and wholly original slasher. Perhaps more than any other film in the genre this one makes out the ploy about how evil kids are with their vindictiveness and cruelty, which is this one's main point. This one really goes to the extreme in making them seem like the coldest beings in the universe through their actions here by maliciously trapping kids inside locked refrigerators, waving guns in front of everyone around them, keeping scrapbooks of their killings, charging money to spy on their nude siblings and flat-out lying to adults and peers to keep their handiwork a secret from everyone. All of these tactics are more than enough to give them a creepy, twisted edge if it happened to be featured on adults, yet the fact that this is done on young children makes them even darker as the cold nature of their appearance and behavior makes for an incredibly fun time. It's a lot of fun when it zeros in on traditional slasher motives and scenes here by generating some fun with its rather chilling stalking scenes as the school rampage, their attempt to run-down a victim in a junkyard with a car, dealing with the sister in her bedroom and finally the chase along the streets which is quite enjoyable, along with the finale chases through the house that is really tense and matches up quite nicely to add a lot of traditional slasher-film chases. These here are enough to hold off the film's problems, the biggest of which is the sheer stupidity of everyone that basically ignores everything around them simply to get the plot going. This is either due to the lousy acting on the kids who are incapable of looking sad or grief-stricken during the funerals or the inability of the police to catch onto the spree around them which is all done to keep the plot going unnecessarily when a realistic effort would've done more investigating or more to prevent them from happening. The kills aren't that special or dynamic either, but the stupidity is the biggest factor holding this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Language and a sex scene.

Three kids born during a solar eclipse have no consciences and turn into psychotic killers as their 10th birthday approaches. Cheesy '80s horror flick that appears to have had a budget of ten dollars with change left over for coffee. The cheapness of it adds to the appeal if you're a fan of low-budget horror from this period. The movie stars Lori Lethin, a cute actress who is forever imprinted on my memory as the epileptic street performer from a very special episode of Diff'rent Strokes. Also features Susan Strasberg and Jose Ferrer slumming. The three kid actors playing the killers are Billy Jacoby, Andy Freeman, and Elizabeth Hoy. Jacoby was a recognizable face in the '80s but I don't know the other two from anything else. Hoy's the creepiest of the three kids. I realize little kids murdering people might make some folks uncomfortable but, trust me, this is a pretty ridiculous movie. How anyone can take it seriously is beyond me. I loved when the scene where they try to run Lori Lethin down in a junkyard. One of the little buggers is driving with a sheet over his head and another is operating the pedals. Terrifying stuff! The best thing about this movie is the scene where buxom Julie Brown dances around her room naked. It's a tacky and sometimes trashy slasher movie that's worth watching if you're bored and in need of a laugh.

Lacking consciences because they were born during a solar eclipse, a trio of 10-year-olds embark on an indiscriminate killing spree.This is such a strange film. Because of the time it was released and the title, I figured it was a slasher film. It is not -- it is a "killer kids" film. That threw me off, expecting something else. But, that being said, it is not a bad movie and the premise is certainly something different.I enjoyed how frustrating it was for the heroine to know these kids were evil but there was little she could do about it. How do you tell people that 10-year olds are murderous miscreants? No one will believe that.Elizabeth Hoy, the killer girl, gave up acting while still a child (she apparently is now a hairdresser, happily married with kids of her own). This is too bad for us, as she clearly was the best actor of the three kids and I think there was a promising future for her.

Alright, here is the scoop this time around: in 1970 three kids were born under a solar eclipse, and because of this, both the sun and the moon were blocking Saturn, thus the kids are born with no emotion. The kids don't really show it until around their tenth birthday where they start killing suckers. Anyway, as a whole I enjoyed "Bloody Birthday". It has a cool premise and is fairly well acted. Add to that some above average performances and a couple of cool kills and you have one of the more respectable offerings from the early 1980's horror scene. It's certainly better than most uninspired "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" knockoffs. The music is heavily inspired by both the scores of "Jaws" and "Psycho", but still works save for one small bit. There are a few gripes I have with this film that really brings it down, which is a drag. For one, the kids never really stick to a MO. Now, I'm not talking about a slasher movie where no two kills are the same. That would have been groovy. No, what happens in this movie is that sometimes the kids kill someone outright, while sometimes they try and make it look like an accident. They should have stuck to something. Also, this film has a lot of gaps in logic, but never to the point where it becomes part of the film's charm. Another thing that bugged me about this flick is that there is not a single child who dies. I love watching little kids buy the farm, so when not a single one died, I was sad. Still, it has a cool final chase scene and the ending shot is boss. Oh, and props to one of the characters for having a Blondie poster.