My Bloody Valentine (2009)

.Happy f&*king Valentine.s Day.. An old theatrical gimmick is given new life in a Valentine.s Day gorefest. Expect much to be thrust at you towards the screen as Harry Warden returns to the small town of Harmony to extract his revenge. A mine accident occurs because the mine owner.s son Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles) forgets to bleed some lines. Five miners are trapped in the mine. However when the rescue crews finally make it to the trapped men they find four corpses and the survivor Harry Warden (Richard John Walters) had killed the others to reserve his oxygen. Warden slips into a coma, but awakens a year after the accident and slaughters everyone at the hospital. Hanninger
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In theaters or on its just-released DVD, a key appeal of Lionsgate’s My Bloody Valentine remake was supposed to be its 3-D gore, with blood and assorted body parts flying at the viewer. Yet when the movie first hit screens earlier this year, one sequence immediately commanded attention for reasons unrelated to the splatter. It features young actress Betsy Rue, whose character Irene gets into an armed confrontation with her lover in a seedy motel parking lot, witnesses his murder and then is pursued at length by the pickax-wielding killer—all while stark naked.
What makes the extended setpiece so notable—and effective—is not so much the nudity per se, but the way Rue and director Patrick Lussier almost play against it. The actress seems completely un-self-conscious, to the point where her actions, not her body, become the point. That may be because, as she reveals, the script
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At theaters, 3D is all the rage, boosting box office receipts and giving moviegoers something to talk about -- if not always to love. The year began with generally positive reactions by horror fans to My Bloody Valentine 3D and continued as young fans enjoyed Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, and families lined up for Monsters vs. Aliens 3D. Can that enthusiasm spread beyond theaters? Can the 3D experience be enjoyed equally well at home?
When he reviewed My Bloody Valentine 3D, our own William Goss felt it was "cheesy, corny, gimmicky, gory fun -- if only in its 3-D theatrical presentation." He questioned whether it would translate at all in 2-D or on DVD. The movie hit DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, and our friend Peter Hall at Horror's Not Dead took the movie for a spin. He found the experience seriously wanting: "Watching [My Bloody Valentine 3D] on Blu-ray is akin
Peter Martin

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