Special Report: The Birthday (2004)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes filmmaker Eugenio Mira to discuss his 2004 darkly comic thriller The Birthday. Starring Corey Feldman, the film unfolds at an eerie party in a mysterious hotel, revealing a strange world where horror, surrealism, and cult menace meet. Mira dives into the film’s influences, its unique stylistic choices, and how it developed its cult status. This conversation offers an intriguing look into a forgotten gem of early 2000s genre cinema.

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0:00.0	Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.
0:05.3	I knew it. They'd been with their landscaper to Jusen.
0:07.8	A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that?
0:14.2	For materials, too high, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Deuton's got the lot. Like Terales, porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square metre.
0:22.3	Love it.
0:23.1	All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.
0:25.9	So now you can keep up with the Joneses.
0:28.0	And the Evanses.
0:29.2	And the Bertels.
0:30.2	Wake up! The Joneses are redo in their garden.
0:32.6	Love that porcelain paving and all that fencing.
0:35.4	I knew it.
0:36.0	They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.
0:37.9	A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba. Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.
0:44.3	For materials, too high, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot.
0:49.0	Like Turalis, porcelain paving from only £22 per square metre. Love it. All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%
0:56.0	so no you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses and the Bertels. Wake up! The Joneses are
1:01.5	redo in their garden. Love that porcelain paver and all that fencing. I knew it. They've been
1:06.4	with their landscaper to Juicen. A mini digger? No wonder she was so smug at Zumba.
1:11.5	Right, I want a sunken seating area.
1:13.4	She won't have that?
1:14.4	For materials, too high, timber and paving.
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