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- The mask the Babyface Killer is wearing in the Happy Death Day movies is that of the Bayfield Baby, the mascot for the university's football team. It's a simple but distinctive concept for a mask, and the movie's director Christoper Landon revealed to Newsweek that when he was prepping the movie he and his partner were expecting a baby.
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Apr 27, 2020 · The idea of fatherhood and fears of being a bad parent started to slip into the story, which inspired the idea of the killer wearing a baby mask. The babyface mask wasn't the only concept for Happy Death Day, however, with a pig mask also being considered. Landon ultimately opted for the baby mask.
Oct 4, 2017 · The mask came from Chris Landon’s head. He totally thought of it himself. He made it up and he designed it. We had to make a few of them for the movie which we had to protect in a special case, but it was totally born out of his head.
The film's conceit is simple: a killer in a baby mask murders a sorority "mean girl," but instead of dying, Theresa "Tree" Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) wakes up at the beginning of the day she died....
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"Today is the first day for the rest of your life."
—Carter Davis's sticker
is a 2017 American black comedy slasher film directed by Christopher Landon, written by Scott Lobdell and starring Jessica Rothe as Tree Gelbman, with Israel Broussard as Carter Davis, and Ruby Modine as Lori Spengler. Filled with black comedy elements, the movie was initially announced under the title Half to Death, but was eventually retitled to Happy Death Day. It was released on October 13, 2017.
The sequel, Happy Death Day 2U , was released on February 13, 2019. A spin-off film, Freaky, was released on November 13, 2020.
Theresa "Tree" Gelbman woke up on her birthday on Monday, September 18 in the dorm room of classmate Carter Davis after a drunken binge the previous evening. Tree went through the day being self-centered, dismissive and condescending to her classmates and previous hook-ups, ignoring her father's invite to a restaurant, throwing away a birthday cupcake given to her by her roommate Lori Spengler, and having an affair with Dr. Gregory Butler, her professor. That night, while going to a party, Tree was lured into a tunnel where she was murdered by a hooded figure wearing a mask of the campus mascot.
Tree woke up the next morning back in Carter's bed with the previous day's events repeating. Unnerved, she relived the day and avoided the tunnel, instead of heading to a fraternity house for a surprise party. However, while hooking up with her classmate Nick Sims, the masked killer murdered him before killing Tree once more. Tree realized she was in a time loop and tried to avoid her death by barricading herself in her room. However, she was murdered again when the killer hid in her bathroom.
During the next loop, she relayed her story to Carter, who suggested that she take advantage of the loop in order to figure out who her killer is. She spent the next loops trailing several suspected classmates, all of which ended in her death as she was stalking the current suspect.
On the next loop after being bludgeoned by a baseball bat from her previous death, Tree passed out shortly after waking up. She awakened in the hospital where she learned she has retained damage from her other murders. Tree escaped the hospital room only to be chased by her killer until she managed to flee in Butler's car. While driving, she is pulled over by a police officer and volunteers to be arrested in order to be spared. However, the killer ran down the officer and set her car on fire, burning Tree to death and sending her through another loop.
Waking up in Carter's bed again, Tree convinced Carter of her predicament by showing that she held foreknowledge of the day's events. Tree admitted to Carter she does not like who she's become; she had also grown distant from her father ever since her mother passed away three years ago and that they had shared the same birthday. Tree caught a local news report on John Tombs, a serial killer who is being held in the hospital on her campus. Concluding that Tombs is her killer, Tree rushes to the hospital to warn of his escape. Tombs broke free and nearly killed Tree, but Carter followed and rescued her. Unfortunately, Tombs snapped Carter's neck before chasing Tree to a nearby bell tower where she managed to subdue him with a crowbar. Realizing that Carter will remain dead if she does not restart the loop, Tree hung herself from the tower.
During the next loop, Tree went around righting the various wrongs she has caused, ending her affair with Dr. Butler, finally meeting with her dad to resolve her inner grief, and resolving to be a kinder person. That night, she prepared to stop Tombs. He managed to get the upper hand on her until Tree utilized a campus-wide blackout that occurred during her loops to disarm him and shoot him to death. Relieved to finally be free, she celebrated her birthday in Carter's room and ate the cupcake given to her by Lori.
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•Bayfield University •Bayfield University Hospital •Chi Sigma Kappa fraternity house •Harmon Hall •Kappa Pi Lambda sorority house •Williams Hall •Dorm room 213
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•Bayfield Babies mask
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2.Miska, Brad (April 20, 2017). "Get Scared ‘Half to Death’ This October". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on January 19, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
3.Busch, Anita (June 12, 2017). Universal, Blumhouse Retitle Film ‘Half to Death’ To ‘Happy Death Day’. Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media, LLC. Archived from the original on January 19, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
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Happy Death Day • Happy Death Day 2U • Happy Death Day To Us
The film got eventually retitled Happy Death Day in June 2017. [6] The mask was constructed by Tony Gardner, the same man who built the "Ghostface" mask from every Scream film, and its design was personal. Landon explains, "During preproduction ...
Feb 13, 2019 · The 'Happy Death Day' director says the idea for the creepy baby mask came from a fear of being a bad parent. Kirsten Acuna. Feb 6, 2019, 8:36 AM PST. Are you creeped out by the...
The Bayfield Babyface Killer, also known as Lori Spengler is the main antagonist of the Happy Death Day film. The babyface costume Lori wears was used as a disguise for John Tombs , Dr. Gregory Butler and in the happy death day sequel, the costume was used by an alternate version of Ryan Phan.
