When she wakes up in an unfamiliar dorm room the morning after a wild night out, she’s disgusted by the adorably dweeby Carter (Israel Broussard) and his good-natured attempts to keep their apparent one-night stand going. She’s a spoiled sorority girl mostly interested in partying and keeping all of her relationships at a very safe distance. Teresa ( Jessica Rothe) - or “Tree” as she likes to be called - isn’t a nice person. Where to Watch This Week’s New Movies, from ‘Talk to Me’ to ‘Haunted Mansion’
But while such a formula has been memorably applied to other genres with strong results - earlier this year, it even worked for the dramatic YA offering “Before I Fall” - “Happy Death Day” may actually be too beholden to its forebears, if only because this horror film is at its very best when it’s being funny.
You can practically hear the pitch that sold the film: it’s the classic Bill Murray comedy, but as a horror film - and centered on a bratty co-ed who gets brutally murdered every night, and is forced to relive the whole thing the next day.Įven the most basic of building blocks are in place, from an initially unlikable protagonist to a generous serving of montages and even an overarching message about the power of being a good person (at one point, a character screams, “love is love!” and it’s both totally endearing and hilariously out of place). Landon’s “ Happy Death Day” doesn’t break out its first “Groundhog Day” joke until well into its third act, but the Jason Blum-produced horror film wears its cinematic pedigree with seeming pride.
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