2019, PG-13, 100 min. Directed by Christopher Landon. Starring Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Suraj Sharma, Charles Aitken, Steve Zissis. REVIEWED By Danielle White, Fri., Feb. 15, 2019 Tweet print write a letter Don’t be fooled by the promotional material for the follow-up to 2017 Blumhouse horror/comedy Happy Death Day. The sequel owes more to the Back to the Future franchise than Halloween. There’s not a whole lotta slashing in this one. Instead our heroine Tree (Rothe) opts to kill herself again and again in order to figure out the algorithm to close the time loop that created the Groundhog Day scenario in the first film. She does not choose to go gently into that good night, however; the death scenes are high-impact, each one a gruesome self-murder. The concept is perfectly millennial – we who get our kicks proliferating memes that turn the idea of death into a joke. We long for it, just the sweet release to free us from the crushing weight of student debt and the adverse effects of decades of rampant capitalism. Suicide is just fine; the horror lies in actually waking up to the same old reality. HDD2U builds… Read full this story
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