Review of My Bloody Valentine (1981) by Zacho D — 30 Mar 2009

I really dug this film! Many aspects make this movie really enjoyable towards horror fans. First off, the killer looks pretty bad ass in the mining suit with the pick axe and the gas mask so you can hear his heavy breathing.

Another thing is the entire Valentines gimmick. Now I know your probably thinking that it's a dumb gimmick considering that Halloween and Friday the 13th came out just before it. But look closer. Halloween didn't use any objects associated with the same holiday(Except for the mask, but almost every killer has a mask so it doesn't count in my book) and same goes for Friday the 13th.

In My Bloody Valentine, they really played with the input of Valentine's day into the film, but mainly with the Killer's threats like when he find's out a valentines day dance is going to happen, he sends the a human heart in a heart shaped valentines day box and does this throughout the movie.

Another thing the killer does is when the old lady holding the dance is killed, he turns all the red hearts in the room upside down which I thought was great and unique. He does more things as well, but the point being: slasher flicks had never had the killer play with the holidays that they were associated until My Bloody Valentine (Keep in mind that I haven't seen Black Christmas yet but will be seeing it soon.

If the killer does play with christmas gimmicks, than I'm wrong here, but otherwise, this is true). Not to mention the great and creepy locations they used to make the film great as well as what they added to different locations to make it scary.

Many things I've also only seen in My Bloody Valentine that I've never seen in any other movie to date like the coat dropping scene and where the girl gets impalled on a sprinkler through the back of her neck and the killer turns it on and water shoots out of her mouth.

Defently the best scene of the movie! That was the other thing as well, the fact that the kills were well executed and unique as well. The characters development wasn't stupid and you got to identify with each one of them and learn about each one which was great.

Also the dialogue was pretty good too. Some of the kills you could predict when they were going to happen, but they were still pretty cool. Overall, its a good low budget horror that was filmed in Nova Scotia Canada which is a couple hours from my hometown! But its a good movie all around that every fan of horror should see.

I haven't seen My Bloody Valentine 3D but I'm guessing its nothing compared to the original.