HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (1981)
- death by shish-kebab!

     ...the sight of the teen about to be orally impaled on a shish-kebab- bulging with tasty morsels, is perhaps the best remembered kill from all of the teenie-kill epics that adorned video shelves world wide in the early 80's. It was this show stopping image that provided HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME with such an eye stopping poster. As you can see below it is actually a completely different bloke, from the one in the poster, who receives Melissa Sue Anderson's spiky, garnished wrath in the actual film! A veritable classic in slasher demises and arguably numero uno...

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     ...Oh, and have I given away the identity of the killer? Well, sorry to be cryptic, maybe, maybe not...

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