three child be bear during a solar eclipse and ten year later this have somehow cause them to grow up without conscience . a their simultaneous tenth birthday celebration approach and they become cunning and calculate cold blood murderer . nice girl local teen joyce russel ( lori lethin ) find herself confront these little terror when most others be fall for their angelic demeanor . hearken back to film like the bad seed and village of the damn and this films premise of evil child may not be wholly original but it still pretty disturb . all three of the child actor elizabeth hoy and billy jacoby and and andy freeman be chillingly convincing . director ed hunt and his co writer barry pearson maintain the unpleasant yet compel mood for the duration of the film while they go so far a to have the little girl charge admission for an unwilling peep show involve her older sister ( future stand up comedienne and mtv personality julie brown and whose striptease be a real eyeful ) . name actor susan strasberg and a an icy teacher and and jose ferrer and with barely any screen time a a doctor and add to the proceeding with their presence and while k. c. martel and one of the youngster from the original the amityville horror and be very likable a joyce kid brother . other familiar face like ellen geer and b movie he man michael dudikoff and cyril oreilly ( porky and dance of the damn ) and joe penny ( jake and the fatman ) and and william boyett ( the hidden ) can be see as well . touch upon such parental fear a child play with gun that they have discover and be lock inside old refrigerator and bloody birthday be a little more than just a slasher variation with kid a antagonist . aid and abet by arlon obers music score and this film stick in the memory more than some of it brother and without lot of gore to fall back on ( although that arrow through the eye gag work quite well ) . bleak and nasty and and downbeat and bloody birthday be worth a look for the curious . positive .