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An intriguing mystery gets dolled out piece by piece in Happy Birthday To Me which is one of the classier and more upscale slasher films of the early 80's. There's a professionalism and class to it even when people are being impaled with shishkabobs. Many of the plot twists don't hold up under a magnifying glass, but it's best to put on your party hat and have a good time instead of nitpicking.

If you ever wondered what a watered down, TV movie version of Martyrs would look like, this stale remake will quench that thirst. It follows many of the same plot beats, but does it in a much more antiseptic and predictable way without any rawness or sense of danger.

This new take on A Nightmare on Elm Street has some great ideas. For one, it toys with the idea that child murderer Freddy Krueger might have been wrongly accused by the parents of Elm Street and that certainly gives him even more reason to be a little peeved. Unfortunately, this is discarded along with every other potentially interesting plot thread and becomes a music video of sometimes stylish, but empty nightmare sequences. Rooney Mara plays the role inhabited by Heather Langenkamp in the original with absolutely no warmth or personality making it hard to root for her.