CREDIT: BLUMHOUSE PRODUCTIONS, UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Happy Death Day is a familiar movie, but is actually not as predictable as one may suspect. It's a great film to watch from beginning to end.

Happy Death Day, directed by Christopher Landon, had a perfect launch date of Friday the 13th, which helped give the film that much more hype. While overall, the film was entertaining and provided some laughs and screams, it was nothing we haven’t seen before. However, with some decent plot twists, I wasn’t disappointed with my Friday the 13th movie choice.

Like the classic movie Groundhog Day, a character relives the same day over and over again (which a character in the movie does make reference to), this is the part that many of us are very familiar with. How the story differs is in Happy Death Day, it features a young college student, played by Jessica Rothe, who relives the same day she is gruesomely murdered, and will continue to live in this nightmare until she can reveal the identity of her killer.

Where a lot of these types of movies fall flat is the fact that you are predominately watching the same scene over and over again, and it can become quite monotonous. However, Happy Death Day does a wonderful job at incorporating humour (I laughed more than I screamed), a terrifying killer and some pretty lovable characters (odd for a horror movie). This helped make the film feel different every time the same scene looped back around.

Another aspect of the film that kept viewers on the edge of their seat, is while the scene continually looped, the main character died a different way each time. This helped remove some of the predictability out of the film and gave it a true sense of terror. Not to mention, the killer’s mask was absolutely terrifying; no matter how many times you see it in the film, it doesn’t get any less scary.

Rothe deserves some pretty huge props for her portrayal of Tree in the film. Not only was she completely believable, she evoked so much emotion. She made me laugh, cry and scream all within an hour and a half. A mixed bag of emotions like this isn’t usually found in horror movies, which is why I found this film quite unique.

Even though while I was watching the movie I felt like I had already seen it before, it was the ending that truly sealed the deal for me. A predictable ending would have completely ruined the movie for me, but it was so expertly crafted, I actually never saw it coming.

While I’m not going to give any more details than that, if you find yourself watching the movie and are feeling a sense of déjà vu, watch it right until the end; you will not be disappointed. Happy Death Day definitely had a sense of familiarity to it, but with some new twists and turns, the movie was very entertaining.