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My Bloody Valentine 3-D
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MPAA RATING: R for graphic brutal horror violence and grisly images throughout, some strong sexuality, graphic nudity and language
Starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsey Rue, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Kevin Tighe, and Megan Boone
Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine's Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend, Sarah, who is now married to his best friend, Axel, the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror that it just might be Harry Warden who's come back to claim them...(Lionsgate)
| GENRE(S): | Horror | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: | Zane Smith |
| DIRECTED BY: | Patrick Lussier |
| RELEASE DATE: | Theatrical: January 16, 2009 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 101 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 49 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Vic C. gave it a0:
Worst movie i have seen in years. save your money. save your brain cells. save yourself... from this horrific movie 3D isn't even that great.
Chad S. gave it a4:
"My Bloody Valentine" sounds more like the name of a shoegazing band from Dublin that it ever did as a slasher film set in a dour coal mining town. After 1991's "Loveless", the Kevin Shields-led band was never heard from again. Too bad the same couldn't be said about Harry Warden, the poor man's Jason, and the poor, poor man's Michael Myers. This "Friday the 13th"-knockoff, released ten years before songs such as "I Only Said" and especially, the heavy shoe-metal of "To Here Knows When" helped steal the name from its source, returns, and tries in vain to steal it back, with the novelty of 3D effects. Nice try. Although "My Bloody Valentine 3D" slavishly abides by the genre requirements of a slasher pic(down to "the final girl"), this remake, to my surprise, has pizazz(the 3D effects have come a long way from its "Jaws 3D" growing pains), and even some smarts(independent of the narrative). Prior to Ben Foley(Kevin Tighe) getting the pickaxe, the antagonist from John Sayles' "Coalminers from Another Planet"(in other words, "Matewan") shines his flashlight directly at the audience. He breaks the fourth wall; he encapsulates the animus behind Michael Haneke's "Funny Games"(both the Belgian original and American shot-by-shot remake) with this throwaway gesture. Scorned and misunderstood by a legion of moviegoers, "Funny Games" left many people feeling dirty, because the filmmaker made them complicit to the violence. Despite its populist pedigree, the three-dimensional diegesis is a much more effective tool than Haneke's use of deconstruction, as the filmic world now replicates, more or less, the real world situated in your theater. Phantasmagorically speaking, both sides of the divide are a seamless whole; the movie people resembles us more than ever. If things can escape from the screen, theoretically, things can enter the same way it came out, as well. But we're only voyeurs; we sit and do nothing. Being the confrontational artist that he is, Haneke implicates his audience for its passivity, in a terribly gruesome scene, where the gore of a child splatters all over a television set. "My Bloody Valentine 3D" goes one step further, the gore lands in our laps; the gore in our laps is a stigmata of our own unacknowledged thirst for blood.
Plumphoney420 gave it a10:
A breath of fresh air! It's a great to see a horror movie that isn't so predictable. Haven't seen a horror movie this good in years! And the 3-D was impressive!
Amanda L gave it a10:
Excellent fun! and Jensen Ackles is terrific.
john gave it a0:
My bloody Valentine is the worst movie of the year. I was bored and it is a BAD FILM.
[Anonymous] gave it a5:
I give it 5 because its the first 3D movie with an R rating, and its good enough to stand alone without the 3D gimmick. It had some good twists to the story and if your a fan of horror i would reccomend it to you with or without the 3D glasses.
Marco gave it a7:
It's really, really bad but in the best possible way. Ridiculously gory violence, gratuitous sex and nudity, paper thin plot, novelty 3D effects. Good times.
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