

Horrified, she returns to her room with the intent to run away, where Lori offers her the cupcake again. Relieved to finally be free, she celebrates her birthday in Carter's room and eats the cupcake Lori gave her. That night, she goes to the hospital and traps and kills Tombs. Butler and meets her father for lunch, where the two begin to reconcile. Now confident in solving her murder, she proceeds happily through the day. Tree awakens in Carter's dorm room and finds him alive again. She runs to the top of the tower and hangs herself from the bell rope. Before delivering a fatal blow, she realizes that if she kills Tombs and ends the loop, Carter will remain dead forever. Tombs kills Carter before chasing Tree to a nearby bell tower, where she subdues him with a crowbar.
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Tombs breaks free and nearly kills Tree, but Carter follows and rescues her. Concluding that Tombs is her killer, Tree rushes to the hospital to warn of his escape.
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Tree sees a local news report on John Tombs, a serial killer being held at the campus hospital. Tree admits to harboring tremendous self-loathing, particularly from pushing away her father after the death of her mother three years ago. When the killer shows up, Tree escapes the hospital in Gregory's car, only to be pursued and killed again.īack in Carter's bed, Tree convinces him of her predicament by demonstrating her knowledge of the day's events. Her body shows evidence of recovery from multiple traumatic injuries, indicating she has retained physical damage from her previous deaths. After waking from a loop where she is bludgeoned, Tree faints and awakens in the campus hospital. She spends the next several iterations trailing people she considers suspects but is killed each time. He suggests taking advantage of the loop to identify her killer. Waking up, Tree explains the events to Carter. The killer, already hiding inside, murders her a third time. Tree again wakes up in Carter's bed, realizes she is in a time loop, and barricades herself in her room to avoid death. However, the masked killer follows her and murders her again. Baffled, she relives the day, this time avoiding the tunnel and reaching the party. Tree immediately wakes up back in Carter's bed, and is unnerved to find the previous day's events repeating themselves. That night, on her way to a party, Tree is lured into a tunnel and murdered by a figure wearing a mask of the school mascot. Tree meets with her married professor, Gregory Butler, with whom she is having an affair. Her sorority housemate Lori Spengler gives her a cupcake, which she throws away. She ignores a phone call from her father and dismisses Carter, returning to her room. A sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, was released on February 13, 2019.Īfter a night of drunken partying, university student Theresa "Tree" Gelbman wakes up on her birthday in the dorm room of classmate Carter Davis. It grossed $125 million worldwide on a $4.8 million budget, with critics deeming the film entertaining and praising Rothe's performance while acknowledging the familiar premise, and describing it as " Groundhog Day meets Scream". Originally announced in 2007 under the title Half to Death, the film was released on October 13, 2017, by Universal Pictures. It follows a college student who is murdered on the night of her birthday and begins reliving the day repeatedly, at which point she sets out to find the killer and stop her death. The film was produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions banner, in association with Digital Riot Media and Vesuvius Productions. It stars Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard. Happy Death Day is a 2017 American black comedy slasher film directed by Christopher Landon, and written by Scott Lobdell.
