My Bloody Valentine (R-2009)

Every holiday needs a slasher film, so why not Valentine's Day? Of course, in this case, the tie-in to Valentine's Day is shaky at best. In a small mining town in Pennsylvania, four miners are trapped when the shaft collapses on Valentine's Day. When the rescuers find them, there is only one survivor and they soon learn that the one survivor killed the others with a pickaxe to conserve oxygen. Ten years later, the killer is missing from the hospital room where he was in a coma and the staff is slaughtered. Has the killer returned? At the same time, Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles) returns to town to sell the mine his father owned. As Hanniger was responsible for the accident which caused the collapse, he is not very popular. His ex-girlfriend, Sarah (Jaime King), is now married to the town sheriff (Kerr Smith), who wants nothing more than to have Tom leave town. This melodrama is played against a backdrop of blood and guts as a man in a miner's outfit is cutting a swath of gore through this small town. For a slasher movie, the mystery story is actually pretty decent. Is the "coma miner" back or is there some other explanation? My only problem with how it plays out is that the big reveal relies on a "cheat" earlier in the story. The effects are very good and I could imagine this would have looked really cool in 3-D. Also, for a horror movie, the acting was actually pretty good. If you like slasher flicks, you will not be disappointed. This is not exactly a classic, but it was certainly entertaining.


Grade: C+

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