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HBO Max subscribers can now stream Happy Death Day, Christopher Landon’s 2017 franchise-launching black comedy sci-fi slasher film. The movie started streaming on the platform on March 1st and stars Jessica Rothe as Tree Gelbman, a self-centered college student who is forced to relive the day of her murder over and over and must use the time loop to identify her masked killer and break the cycle. The movie was followed by a sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, in 2019. Seven years later, a third movie, Happy Death Day 3, is officially in the works.
Happy Death Day Is a Hilarious Slasher Worth Watching
Happy Death Day isn’t a slasher that will disappoint. It’s fun, fast-paced, and highly rewatchable. The best way to describe it is like Groundhog Day meets Scream, the movie’s time loop serving as a structural device for a whodunnit mystery and self-aware, witty, and darkly comedic slasher where the repetitive, low-stakes horror is fun rather than just scary. There’s no shortage of creative, low-gore kills that get wilder and wilder every time Tree tries but fails to break the cycle, and Tree herself is a great modern final girl, evolving from an unlikable character into someone you want to root for. The Babyface Killer is also a pretty fun masked, stalking antagonist.
