{"id":162658084,"date":"2026-02-02T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658084"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:55:04","slug":"3-filmrec-happy-death-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=162658084","title":{"rendered":"#3 FILMREC: HAPPY DEATH DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_038-1024x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162658085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_038-1024x429.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_038-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_038-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_038.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Happy Death Day<\/em><\/strong> (2017)<br>directed by Christopher Landon<br>Rated PG-13 (mild violence\/gore, cussin&#8217; and crude convos, and suicide)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For fans of whodunnits, <em>Groundhog Day<\/em>, and teen comedies (complimentary)<br><br>My rating: <strong>Gateway<\/strong> &#8211; I love horror and I want everyone to watch it, so I&#8217;m always excited about a PG-13 horror movie that works because I hope it gets younger people (and other curious folks) into the genre. I really love this film as a gateway because the time loop premise gives the audience a low stakes environment to experience the elements of a horror film&#8211;she dies a lot, but she always respawns! As noted in the MPAA approved rating above, there is a suicide, so warning for that.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_024-1024x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162658086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_024-1024x429.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_024-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_024-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Happy_Death_Day_024.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Some thoughts: Today is Groundhog Day! I do recommend watching that film, BUT if you are like me and watched it last year, maybe switch it up with this one. I really do find this movie very charming and a perfect entry point to the genre. Briefly, it follows a young woman named Tree (sick ass name) who gets murdered on her birthday and then relives that day, death included, on a loop until she discovers the killer&#8217;s identity and, ya know, doesn&#8217;t die. There is a masked killer, blood, death, suspense, there&#8217;s even a twist! All of this on top of it being light hearted. But most importantly-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at that baby up there! That&#8217;s the killer! That baby! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Death Day (2017)directed by Christopher LandonRated PG-13 (mild violence\/gore, cussin&#8217; and crude convos, and suicide) For fans of whodunnits, Groundhog Day, and teen comedies (complimentary) My rating: Gateway &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162658084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-the-nothingness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162658084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162658084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162658084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162658087,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162658084\/revisions\/162658087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162658084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162658084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162658084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}