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Alison's Birthday (1981)

Alison's Birthday poster
Directed by
Ian Coughlan
Genre
horror film, Ozploitation film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl becomes increasingly worried as her 19th birthday approaches. She discovers that her relatives have been secretly planning a dark ritual for that night.

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What happens

Alison's Birthday is a 1981 Australian supernatural horror film, written and directed by Ian Coughlan, produced by the Australian Film Commission, Fontana Films and the Seven Network, and starring Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal, and Vincent Ball. It follows a teenage girl who finds herself the subject of a sinister ritual planned to take place on her 19th birthday. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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