It’s only in the latter stages that Happy Death Day begins to seem formulaic and contrived. What’s impressive is the way the filmmakers take some already very familiar elements, repeat them again and again, and yet still manage to give them a fresh spin.
It's a slasher comedy that allows its leading lady to flip the bird at the usual clichés, instead of simply and sadistically punishing her.
Groundhog Day meets classic teen slasher in this enjoyable horror about a college girl endlessly reliving the same fateful events.
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