It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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!

Whilst it still revels in the tropes of the slasher genre 'My Bloody Valentine' is a solid, entertaining and slightly different film which should be enjoyed by fans as well as the casual viewer. 'Valentine' is notable for being one of the few good Canadian entries to the eighties slasher craze and makes the most of a limited, somewhat clichéd idea with a welcome professional, creative element that slashers often lack.Following on the heels of 'Halloween' and other holiday based plots 'Valentine' concerns the holiday, a card shop holiday anyway, in a small Canadian town also helpfully named Valentine's Bluff. You'd think it'd be the perfect place for a valentine's party but a mine collapse twenty years prior leaves a madman named Harry Warden buried alive whilst the rest of the town parties. You can imagine what happens next. The madman bans Valentine's in the town and enforces the ban in a violent fashion. Twenty years later a new valentine celebration is planned as Harry Warden has faded into legend.What makes Valentine's stand out is two things. One, the actual slasher set pieces are superb. Creative, brutal and sometimes funny. The filmmakers were forced to cut about eight or nine minutes of footage to appease the censors which adds to the cult appeal of the piece. Yet despite the cuts the bloody nature of Valentine will please fans of the genre and some genuinely unsettling moments are also scattered throughout the film when it comes to the use of blood and guts.The other appealing element is the film's professionalism. Whereas other slasher films fall into the cheesiest and cheesiest of quality through bad acting, bad camera-work and generally amateurish production Valentine does not. The acting is good and naturalistic, a nice surprise from the genre, the cinematography is interesting and inventive, making use of a wider range of camera expression than falling back on the POV shot. The focus of the characters in peril are also far more interesting. Valentine's Bluff is a dreary working class town with a single industry, the mines, to keep it going. As such the characters are smarter, more bitter and, in many ways, better than their college co-ed, teenage counterparts.In the ranks of slasher films 'My Bloody Valentine' ranks high. For those who are fans of the genre it is definitely required watching. For the more casual viewer the film's professional tint and interesting, though still generic holiday based premise, will distinguish itself from other less astute entries.

This 1981 horror film stars Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Don Francks and Peter Cowper. The town of Valentine Bluffs is about to celebrate Valentine's Day, but is in for a nightmare when a killer repeats gruesome murders that happened 20 years prior. It began during the town's Valentine's dance and 5 mine workers were trapped underground after an accident. Harry Warden (Cowper) was the only survivor who eventually killed the ones responsible for the mishap and was committed after. Soon, The killer warns the town of not having a dance, but takes out the ones that ignore him. Is Harry continuing his killing spree or is it someone else? Kelman plays T.J., Hallier plays his ex-girlfriend, Sarah whom he still loves, Affleck plays her boyfriend, Axel and Francks plays Chief Newby. This isn't a bad 80's slasher flick, but you must watch the uncut version if you're a fan of the genre.

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.