Bloody Birthday

Bloody Birthday is an open invitation to revel in three of the most mean-spirited children in horror.

Inoffensive, rather inconsistent but watchable all the the same.

"Bloody Birthday" isn't a normal 'creepy kids' horror movie, where the murderous children are pasty and blank-faced. No, this trio of pint-sized psychopaths plots out their crimes, takes the time to set the stage, and cover their tracks.

It's dazzling the way the film cleverly portrays childlike innocence to draw viewers into a false state of security, while then, when they least expect it, revealing the characters' lack of conscience.

Doesn't concoct an elaborate back story or history of family dysfunction to justify or motivate the kiddie killing spree that is its reason for being. The three bad seeds here were simply born under a bad sign, as Albert King might have said.

A time-waster tasteless horror flick, with no redeeming social values.

What the film lacks in story it makes up for with a high body count and plenty of gratuitous sex.

Dull and gore-free slasher-wannabe which could have been great but falls flat