Ann Thomerson(Happy Birthday to Me)

## Biography

### Motivation:

Kill Virginia on her birthday and frame her for the other murders after blaming her for her mother leaving

## Poster

**Ann Thomerson** is the main slasher villain from the 1981 slasher film, Happy Birthday to Me.

She is played **Tracey E. Bregman**.

## Personality

Extremely creative in macabre and a ways of killing her victims (given her pragmatic touch), Ann is one of the most ruthless slasher villains of that decade. Also, unlike most of the slasher killers, she plans her attacks free steps ahead. She's very caring and cordial with her friends and people around her on public, but most of it an act, since she's very willing to kill the people she knew for a long time for a petty reason, basically talking careless with them in one scene and slaughtering her friends in the other. Although, on certain occasions, she actually threatens her friends (Greg for example) in a very exaggerated manner, but ends up fulfilling her threats later anyway.

In other words, Ann is almost a textbook example of a sociopath, being charismatic and caring friend and a ruthless killer at the same time.

## Background

A married man named Will Thomerson was cheating on his wife with another married woman named Estelle, which resulted in the birth of a girl named Virginia. When Will’s wife found out about his mistress upon Virginia’s birth, she leaves him and their daughter, Ann. At some point in her life, Ann found out that Virginia is her half-sister. Blaming Virginia for her mother leaving her and her father, she doesn’t invite her to her birthday party, despite Virginia having the birthday party on the same day.

On the day of their birthday, Virginia and Estelle were getting Virginia’s birthday party ready until Virginia reveals that everyone she was suppose to invite went to Ann’s birthday party instead. Upset that Virginia wasn’t invited to her former lover’s daughter’s birthday party, Estelle takes her to Ann’s house to go to the party but Will refuses to let them go through the house’s gate.

On the way back home, Estelle gets into a car accident where the car gets caught in the middle of an opening drawbridge until it fell into the water. Her mother is unable to get out of her seat, so she lets Virginia escape through the window while she drowned. However, as Virginia surfaces, a barge was passing by and Virginia accidentally surfaces near the propellers, nearly killing her. She was then taken to a hospital where she was given brain surgery.

Upset that Virginia didn’t die from the accident, Ann decides to kill Virginia herself while setting up her next birthday party.

## Biography

Eventually, Ann meets up with Ginny after her return to Crawford and builds up a friendship in order to gain her trust and get an access to Virginia's plans and whereabouts. A week before Virgina’s birthday, Ann goes on a killing spree to slaughter all of Virginia's guests on that 14th birthday and make it all looking like Ginny's work. In order to do so, she does her "giallo-like" outfit all done in black, with the exception of the sneakers, and a pair of leather gloves to match.

Her first victim was Bernadette O'Hara, whom she was trying to choke to death, while hiding at the backseat of her car. And even though Berny escapes the grip, Ann later comes to her in her casual outfit, pretending to be friendly, only to take out the razor and slit her friend's throat seconds later. After that she spends the evening with her friends at the local pub and plays "the game" on the bridge. Although, after Virginia's tantrum, she gets very mad at one of her friends - Greg, wishing to break his neck out loud.

The next day, after the dirtbike race, which the transfer student Etienne wins with glory, ruining his chance with Ginny at the same time, Ann decides to kill him next, making both Virginia and Alfred (the taxidermy guy who has a crush on her) to look like a suspects. She sneaks in Etienne's garage, while he's working on his motorbike, and throws his trademark scarf into the spinning wheel, slashing half of his face off with the tire’s spokes and choking him at the same time. After that she goes to the pub and later offers Ginny to go check on Alfred. After seeing how gifted he is with making up the latex masks of living people, Ann calls him sick at first, but later proceedes to get herself one that looks like Virginia.

After two students have gone missing, the police starts up an investigation, involving the head-mistress of the Crawford's academy - Mrs. Patterson, who questions every member of the "Top Ten" about their missing friends whereabouts, including Ann. Using the frustration of other members about the police snooping around, Ann decides to undermine the relationship within the group, in order to distance them from one another and take them off individually. First, she offers the group to visit the cinema, not inviting the most ill-tempered student, which leads to a quarrel. After that she visits the group's hunk - Greg, while he's lifting weights. She remains silent while he's talking about the group's falling apart, but happy to oblige when he ask her to add some weights, which allows her to take off the bench and drop a weight plate on Greg's crotch, while he's still holding his weights, which results in it crushing his neck completely, making her earlier threat from before an ironic echo. Ann then demonstrates an incredible strength, lifting up the weights and setting them behind the door as a trap, while taking the corpse to her car and taking off just in time when his girlfriend Amelia comes in.

The next couple of days Ann decides to lay low, in order to not draw to herself any suspicion from the police. She's attending every activity her friends are in like the soccer play, on which she's congratulating Alfred with a kiss, and shows a lot of compassion and care towards Amelia, hugging and calming her down at every opportunity. But when the teens go to the swimming pool, Ann resorts to her kills, following Virginia after her sudden departure to the graveyard, where she notices that Alfred is also following Ginny. Seeing that, Ann effectively knock outs Virginia with chloroform, while taking her place at her mother's grave, using her latex mask and a wig, making herself Ginny's lookalike. She uses this to lure Alfred closer and then suddenly stabs him with the garden shears to death. She then drives both of the bodies to Wainwright's mansion, taking the corpse to the family's old cottage, the place where the previous birthday took part, and an unconscious Ginny to her bedroom, without her remembering anything.

The next day Ginny's father takes off on account of business, which leads her to visit the academy's evening party. Ann is also there, taking pleasure in dancing. But when Ginny decides to leave with one of her classmates Steve, she informs her best friend about this, which leads to Ann leaving the party almost immediately, as she makes it to Wainwright's house. There, she knock outs Virginia once again while she's on the kitchen, effectively taking her place thanks to Alfred's makeup. Then Ann, as Ginny, returns to Steve and flirts with him while impersonating Virginia very well. They get a little bit of kissing and drinking, before Ann uses the shish kabob skewer to stab Steve right in the throat, while "feeding him". Ann smirks psychotic as Steve meets his end, before cleaning up the crime scene and leaving the house without being noticed.

The next morning Ann herself drives to Virginia's house, waking her up from the chloroform blackout with a car's horn and taking interest in "all the gorey detail" about her and Steve last night. As she let's herself in, Ginny's taking a shower while having another flashback. The following events are unclear, but, apparently, while seeing Virginia hallucinating, Ann either decides to twist her mind even further, by pretending to be dead in the bathtub with a slitted throat, or it's just a hallucination, which Ginny experience every time after the flashback, and Ann actually isn't there, just hiding somewhere in the house. Either way, Ann throws the suspicion away from her persona, making the public to believe in her disappearance, leaving the car opened on the side of the road for cops to find.

But on Ginny's birthday, Ann is in the house once again, wearing her full disguise in order to knock out Ginny for her birthday party and finish off the rest of the obstacles in her way, starting with Virginia's psychiatrist - Dr David Faraday, by ambushing him from behind with a fire poker and beating him to death with it. After that she makes the remaining preparations, like digging out the corpse of her father's mistress (and placing Faraday's corpse into the empty casket) and bringing Ginny to the old cottage as another "guest".

When Virginia's father makes it back to her birthday, discovering the splattered blood from the beating, which makes him run from the house, searching for his daughter, only finding one of her classmates - Amelia, standing in shock near the graveyard with a present in her hands and absolutely catatonic state. After wandering around a bit more, Hal eventually enters the abandoned holidays cottage, discovering all of Ann's victims, as well as an unconscious Virginia with her head face down on the table, sitting around the table in a twisted birthday-celebrating manner. That's when Ann comes in, looking like his daughter, singing a birthday song and acting completely insane in order to lower his guard. Hal is so traumatized by this that he doesn't try to resist when Ann attacks him with a Cake knife, slitting his throat in a gruesome manner, while accusing him for letting his wife sleeping with her dad. Then Ann, still disguised as Virginia, tries to slit Virginia’s veins with her own hands to make it look like suicide.

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Fortunately, Ginny starts waking up and fights back in the process, resulting in Ann's mask being toarned off, revealing her face to Ann. Miss Thomerson takes a sadistic pleasure in Ginny's confused state, gloating about her "mask-and-replacing" plan and a status of being her best friend, which gave her an access to Virginia's plans and whereabouts. As Ginny is completely shocked by such betrayal and traumatized by the death of her friends and close ones, Ann takes her ruined disguise to the next room. Upon her returning, Ann is tries to kill Ginny with the same cake knife, while blaming Virginia for ruining her family. But Ginny, apparently having another psychotic episode, wrestles the knife away from Ann and stabs her with it in the stomach, killing her and avenging the death of her friends and family. However, a police investigator arrives and upon seeing the dead bodies and Ann holding the knife, believes Ginny is the one responsible for the murders.

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## Murder Objects

### Handheld Weapons

* Straight Razor
* Fire Poker
* Garden Shears
* Shish Kabob Skewer
* Cake Knife

### Non-Weapon Objects

* Hind Motorcycle Wheel
* Barbell Weight

## Kills

* **Bernadette O'Hara**: Choked by hand and later throat slit by a straight razor.
* **Etienne Vercures**: Scarf caught in running motorcycle wheel and gets head pulled into the wheel where his face gets shredded by the spokes while being choked by the scarf.
* **Greg Hellman**: Barbell weight dropped on pelvis while holding a heavy barbell up, causing him to drop the barbell on his neck and crushing it.
* **Alfred Morris**: Stabbed in the stomach with garden shears.
* **Steve Maxwell**: Stabbed in the mouth with a metal shish kabob skewer.
* **Dr. David Faraday**: Beaten to death by a fire poker.
* **Harold "Hal" Wainwright**:Throat slit with cake knife.

## Trivia

* It wasn’t clear how Ann got a hold of a latex mask of Virgina’s face from Alfred. One theory was Alfred made the mask with Virginia in mind and it was just lying around for Ann to snatch. Another theory was she somehow convinced Alfred to make her one without exposing her true colors.
* In a deleted scene, taking place when Virginia’s father arrives at the house for her birthday and finds Amelia at the graveyard, as soon as Ginny's father takes off, Ann kills Amelia from behind with an axe to the head, but because of the MPAA rating, the kill was cut.