Happy Death Day review – Groundhog Day meets Scream in gore-free horror

A bright, zippy tone ensures that this high concept slasher remains an easy watch but a repetitive structure and a scare-free final act will leave genre fans unhappy

Given horror’s box-office dominance in 2017 (It, Get Out and Split remain three of the year’s biggest hits), it seems only right that the slasher movie receives the resurrection it deserves. But one of the many reasons it died again after Scream brought it back to life was a reluctance from audiences to feel terrified by the relative simplicity of a man bearing a knife. Why get scared over another rubber mask, when there are evil dolls, demons, clowns, poltergeists and zombies instead?

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