Directed by:
Patrick LussierCinematography:
Brian PearsonComposer:
Michael WandmacherCast:
Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Edi Gathegi, Kevin Tighe, Tom Atkins, Megan Boone, Betsy Rue, Todd Farmer, Sam Nicotero, Bingo O'Malley, Selene Luna (more)VOD (2)
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Ten years ago in the town of Harmony, an inexperienced coal miner caused an accident that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a coma. When Harry awoke, exactly one year later on Valentine's Day, he wanted revenge and brutally murdered 22 people with a pickax before being killed himself. Now, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickax, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. As his footsteps come ever closer, the townspeople realize in terror that it just might be Harry Warden who has found his way back. (official distributor synopsis)
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My Bloody Valentine is a TV production drowning in bloody brutality and using 3D effects surprisingly scarcely and unoriginally. Due to the screenwriter’s laziness (the only thing he’s able to do is conceal the killer’s identity), it’s probably the most retarded slasher flick in a long while. The only thing suggesting we’re no longer in the 1980s but in the world of contemporary cinema is the more modern pumps on the feet of one naked blonde, who gets murdered early on.
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Schematic and average slasher without any spark or ideas. Fortunately, the angry miner is a fairly charismatic character and whenever he and his pickaxe enter the scene, the viewer’s mood gauge moves from I’m-bored to I’m-entertained, but those moments are brief. And when the film tries to surprise with the oldest and most clichéd stuff you can imagine, all with a very serious face, you wonder whether the screenwriter hadn’t been sleeping for the last twenty years. And yet, My Bloody Valentine is a little bit better than the sterile remake of Friday the 13th.
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"Bloody Valentine" has problems with the logic of some scenes, which ultimately also affects the punchline of the entire movie, which stumbles considerably at times. That's a shame. Maybe it would have benefited from fewer minutes and less effort to dazzle with interesting, not so traditional scenes that are, however, overly stretched. This inconsistency ultimately leads me to give it a 50%.
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