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Previous scholarship on time-loop narratives highlights their capacity for character transformation (e.g., Groundhog Day analyses) and ethical introspection. Horror scholarship often investigates the slasher’s moral economy and the final-girl trope. Less scholarly attention has focused on horror-comedies that deliberately mix tonal registers to produce both scares and emotional catharsis. This paper builds on genre theory (Neale; Carroll), narrative repetition (Hutcheon on repetition/variation), and recent studies of contemporary teen horror.

To understand the depth of Happy Death Day, one must index the protagonist's journey through four distinct ontological stages. Index Of Happy Death Day

Happy Death Day (dir. Christopher Landon) blends slasher horror with Groundhog Day-style time loops. The franchise follows Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), a college student forced to relive her murder day until she identifies her killer. This paper builds on genre theory (Neale; Carroll),