Alison's Birthday Blu-ray brings one of the most unsettling and underseen Ozploitation horror films of the 1980s to North American audiences as a long-overdue standalone release. When a teenage seance warns orphaned Alison not to return home for her nineteenth birthday, she ignores the message and unwittingly triggers a hidden network of occult terror, manipulation, and ritual violence. What begins as a slow-burn psychological mystery steadily tightens into a chilling satanic nightmare with a finale widely regarded as one of the most disturbing in Australian horror cinema.

Written and directed by Ian Coughlan, Alison's Birthday stands apart from typical Satanic Panic-era shockers through its intelligence, restraint, and creeping sense of inevitability. Anchored by Joanne Samuel in a quietly vulnerable performance, the film builds dread through atmosphere and suggestion before delivering a sudden, brutal conclusion that lingers long after the credits roll. Frequently cited as a missing link between Rosemary's Baby and later folk-horror revivals, the film has earned renewed appreciation for its ambition, mood, and uncompromising ending.

This Blu-ray edition presents the film newly scanned in 2K from the original 16mm CRI and includes contextual features examining Australia's unique strain of occult horror and the film's legacy within the Ozploitation canon.

directed by: Ian Coughlan
starring: Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, John Bluthal, Vincent Ball, Belinda Giblin
1981 / 99 min / English

Alison's Birthday [Blu-ray]

Name: Alison's Birthday [Blu-ray]
Brand: Severin Films

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BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• audio commentary with film scholar Lindsay Hallam
• extended interviews from Not Quite Hollywood with producer David Hannay and cast members Joanne Samuel and Belinda Giblin
• The Devil Down Under: Satanic Panic in Australia from Rosaleen Norton to Alison's Birthday

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• single-disc Blu-ray

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Label: Severin Films
Edition: standard edition
Number of discs: 1
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Region: Blu-ray region free
Audio: English stereo
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