My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Memorable, crazy movie

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."My Bloody Valentine" (R - 1981 - US)Sub-Genre: SlasherMy Score: 6.2Cast=4 Acting=4 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=5 Scare=6 Jump=7 F/X=7 Blood=8 Twist=6A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead. "Roses are red, violets are blue, one is dead, and so are you." Maybe a lesser known title from those 80's campy slasher flicks, but still one to watch. I didn't think it held up as well as maybe ANOES or ISOYG, but no one can use a pick like this guy...at least not until "Cold Prey". With silly scary nursery rhymes like, "It happened once, it happened twice. Cancel the dance, or it'll happen thrice" and "Beware of having a party at all on Saturday night! You may not live to see daylight!"...you may gag or chuckle a bit. One thing's for sure, the kills do hold up pretty well...Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day is coming around and the young people of the small mining town of Valentine's BLuffs are organising a party. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground. One, Harry Warden, survived, though in a deranged state. Warden is sent to a mental hospital but escapes and murders those he deems responsible for the mine accident. Now people are being brutally murdered again, and the townsfolk suspect that it is the work of Harry Warden.Better than your average slasher-horror, not that this says much. Reasonable set up, and a decent amount of intrigue. Does fall back on many horror clichés, and the performances are so-so. Plot is ultimately fairly formulaic, but has its moments.

Partly i think it did, however on the other hand maybe it didn't. Some of the characters where killed off camera which is obviously a censorship issue which if made today probably wouldn't happen. We also had a couple of characters Howard and Sylvia who had little introduction and then promptly slaughtered.The other issue i had with My bloody valentine was the thin motive the killer had we get a brief reveal at the end but is hardly satisfying.Your common or garden slasher movie the killer has his trademark kill, here victims are dispatched using various ingenious methods, which we are not allowed to see.Now that the movie is over 30 years old it needs a re submission to the censors like others of the time and the cuts re-addressed to make the movie more complete.

By 1981 the slasher film craze started by John Carpenter's influential "Halloween" could be felt throughout the genre and everyone was jumping on the bandwagon. From independent films to big studios every holiday on the calendar was being used as an excuse to have a crazed killer stalking, usually teenagers. Paramount studios already struck gold with "Friday the 13th" and then moved on to Valentine's Day with this offering. Even though it is essentially the same plot, this one offered up a different setting and more adult characters which would help a lot. Set in the small town of Valentine's Bluff, a mining accident kills a group of men while the town was celebrating a Valentine's Day dance and party. The lone survivor, named Harry Warden (Peter Cowper), warns the town to never have another valentine dance or party, or else. Jump ahead twenty years and guess what? The town is getting ready for a Valentine's Day dance. The Sheriff receives two heart shaped candy boxes with real hearts in them! The party's coordinator Mabel (Patricia Hamilton) is killed (In one of the movie's scariest scenes of serious stalk and slash) and her body is stuffed into a dryer until she is a crispy corpse. The Sheriff and town officials quickly cancel the party. This doesn't stop the group of hard working miners and their girlfriends of having a private party in the mine itself. The party is crashed by an angry killer wearing a gas mask and picks them off in gory fashion mostly by pick ax. It's refreshing to see adult characters instead of the idiot teenagers that usually fill these films. Somehow all of this is a little more believable. Even though they are killed off in the same manner, the film has a realistic feel to it. Add the fact that Director George Mihalka delivers solid suspense, an aggressive killer, some bloody and inventive kills; and My Bloody Valentine turns into everything a slasher film fan can ask for. The mine setting, with its underground tunnels has a closed in look that ads unexpected atmosphere. The killer has a memorable appearance in full miners gear making him one of the more intimidating killers from these types of films. The killer is particularly vicious and this movie has gory scenes that are memorable. Mihalka takes a simple scenario of a girl waiting for her boyfriend to come back with beer and milks it for solid scares which end in a wicked impalement of the girl on a shower head. They die by the numbers but it's the getting there is where the fun lies and this film delivers.