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		List Price: $34.98		Label: Lionsgate Salesrank: 17607 Released: May 19, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Ten years ago in the town of Harmony, an inexperienced coal miner caused an accident that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a coma. When Harry awoke, exactly one year later on Valentine’s Day, he wanted revenge and brutally murdered 22 people with a pickax before being killed himself. Now, after years of peace, something from Harmony’s dark past has returned. Wearing a miner’s mask and armed with a pickax, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. As his footsteps come ever closer, the townspeople realize in terror that it just might be Harry Warden who has found his way back.

Description of My Bloody Valentine 3D (2-disc special edition):
Though never a landmark in the slasher subgenre, the Canadian-made My Bloody Valentine (1981) was a favorite among gorehounds for its plentiful scenes of bloodshed; the 2009 remake sticks closely to the original in this respect, and ups the gross factor by rendering many of them in impressive 3-D. The core plot, penned by Todd Farmer and Zane Smith, remains essentially the same--a series of gruesome murders appears to be linked to a terrible mine accident from two decades ago--but just as with the original, it's largely just a framework on which to string the carnage set pieces, which are splattery enough to please even the most jaded Saw or Hostel fanatic. The Real-D effects deliver the required degree of heart-stopping jumps without the usual eye strain, and if one can snicker away old standbys like a tree branch crashing through a windshield, one has to admire the chutzpah of presenting actress Betsey Rue's pursuit of a wayward bed partner while fully naked and toting a shotgun in full and vibrant 3-D, moments before the pickaxe-wielding killer descends upon her. Rue's scenery-chewing performance is the best of the twenty-something cast, which is led by Supernatural's Jensen Ackles and Jaime King; character actors Kevin Tighe and Tom Atkins deliver their moments like the old pros they are. Though by no means a new horror classic, My Bloody Valentine 3-D sets the gross-out bar for all future slasher remakes to surpass. -- Paul Gaita

My Bloody Valentine 3D (2-disc special edition) Reviews:
better than the original
2009-12-26 - I never thought much of the original other than it was a typical cookie-cutter slasher flick, so when I saw the remake, I wasn't expecting much at all. Well, aside from the ending (which I won't spoil) I loved this flick. It was a throwback to '80s slashers. It had great gore, female nudity, and lots of action. I recommend this movie to any '80s slasher fan.

Excellent 3D on your HD TV
2009-12-17 - One reviewer said there was not any big names in this movie..SORRY but Jensen Ackles from Supernatural is plenty big enough for me. I was truly amazed at the quality of 3D, never thought I would live long enough to see this on a TV. Several people have watched it and I love watching them dodge the pickax..fun. Now I need to find more 3D BD movies. I am going to see Avatar and hope it comes out in 3D BD. If I was just giving a rating on the 3D quality it would have gotten 5 stars, but as a movie in general just a 3, so I split the difference and give it a 4.

At Least the 3D was Cool
2009-12-08 - Not since Friday the 13th Part 3 have I remembered so vividly a 3D horror movie. Now, with the release of a My Bloody Valentine remake in 3D, Lionsgate raises the bar, at least in production value.


When I first heard that My Bloody Valentine was being refilmed, I thought to myself, "Huh?" I had never seen the original, so it took a bit of research to find out what the movie was all about.

Apparently in the original , directed by George Mihalka, a disgruntled miner named Harry Warden(played by Peter Cowper) goes on a killing spree, killing fellow miners by cutting out their hearts. Cutting to present day, a group of teenagers get the bright idea to hold a Valentine's Day party in the mine where the murders took place. It proves to be a fantastic idea, as the party-goers are dispatched one by one. Is Harry Warden back from the dead with his trusty miner's helmet? Possibly. The movie was reminiscient of those good old 80s slasher movies that we all loved. It was filmed in Canada(how about those Canucks?), and had 19 minutes of edited footage that was cut due to excessive gore, which was only included recently in a re-release by Lionsgate.

Now, Harry Warden is back. AGAIN. Lionsgate revisited the sleepy mining town of terror by recreating the movie, but this time in 3D. And that is where the story goes bad.

The original storyline is well intact. We have the flashback of Harry Warden(now played by Rich Walters) going crazy in a hospital a year after the original mining incident, which we never see but are told was a "mining accident". We also don't know why he started killing everybody. We can only guess it has to do with some workers union disagreement. What we do know is that he returns to the mines after leaving the hospital, and happens on a group of teenagers who got the bright idea to hold a Valentine's Day party in the mine where the accident took place. After dispatching many of the teenagers, Harry Warden attacks Tom Hanniger(played by Jensen Ackles), but is held off by the police, who apparently shoot and kill Warden, and Tom is left a gibbering idiot.

Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to take over the mining company after the death of his father(this fact was left out until now) after being in a mental institution. When he arrives, murders begin. Is Harry Warden back from the dead? Probably. Slasher stars never stay down for long(see Jason Voorhees, Freddy Kreuger, Michael Myers, etc.). The town thinks Tom is responsible. Tom isn't so sure(obviously.) The hunt ensues to uncover the truth, before the whole town ends up dead, or the mine is sold to Germans.

The Good: My Bloody Valentine is brutal in the gore factor. It's in 3D, and not like Friday the 13th Part 3. The theater gave us these big Buddy Holly glasses, and I'm glad I kept mine on. When a woman gets half her head severed with a shovel, and the 3D has the head slide forward at you, that's good use of 3D. When a miner throws a pick-axe from fifty yards away straight at the audience, and it sticks into a car's windshield, that's good use of 3D. This movie played the 3D card for every grisly scene, as well as they should. There wasn't much else holding this movie together. Besides the drunken old men playing caricatures of old mining men.

The Bad: Everything else. The storyline was annoyingly vague, which doesn't work too well with a basic slasher movie. It's as if the movie is meant to be watched after seeing the original to get the storyline straight. I hadn't seen the original at the time, so I was stuck. The twist ending made me, and half the theater, throw up their arms in anguish, since it wasn't suspenseful so much as, "So wait, why did this all happen?" Granted, it's a slasher movie, but usually a storyline of "killer on the loose" doesn't have so many scenes that you look back on and scratch your head about.


My Bloody Valentine 3D
2009-12-06 - Cool movie! I love the 3D part. Perfect movie for friday/saturday night for watch with your friends

Excellent in 3D Blu-Ray! A must Buy!
2009-11-10 - This movie isn't too bad. It has some of the same old slasher stuff you expect, but the ending isn't quite what you would expect. The 3D works really well. I have a 56" HDTV on a PS3- It was unreal. I don't know what some other people are talking about. It could be they didn't have it set up for 3D or their expectations are unreal. This is the kind of Blu-Ray you will actually get some use out of - Cool one to show off- also comes with 4 decent quality glasses.