Starring: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsey Rue
Rating: 6.5/10
Directed By: Patrick Lussier
Runtime: 101 minutes
This evening, I rounded up my movie posse to go check out the new 3D movie that builds on the 1981 horror flick My Bloody Valentine. We paid our $12.50 with chagrin, but were excited about getting to experience some cool 3D gore. I was also enthusiastic about seeing Jensen Ackles, hailing from Supernatural, Smallville, and Days of Our Lives, play a major role in the film.
My Bloody Valentine 3D takes us back to the small mining town Valentine Bluffs, where a crazed killer named Harry Warden went wacko and killed his miner pals 10 years before. He swore anyone who tried to celebrate Valentine’s Day after this massacre would pay the ultimate price.
As the movie opens, a group of young adults is getting ready to enter a mine and party late into the night. I guess they forgot that Harry Warden forbade any Valentine fun. Woe! After the group enters, the visage of Harry arrives and uses a pickax to annihilate the bulk of the partygoers. Luckily, four of the partiers survive…barely!
Flash forward 10 more years to the next February. The four survivors are together again, just begging for trouble. A lot more killing transpires, resulting in some very cool 3D shots. My favorite shot occurred when the point of the pickax traveled up through a man’s jaw and curved out of his mouth. The killer yanked forward on the ax, causing the jaw to break loose and fly straight at me. I actually ducked!
The end of the movie was a bit of a letdown and the whole thing was a tad bit cheesy. However, I prefer my horror with cheese. Also, I did feel my heart racing a couple of times, and that is much more than I have experienced while watching the other new horror flicks that have come out recently. Because of the cool 3D effects and the fact that it kept me awake, I give My Bloody Valentine 3D a 6.5/10.
Much fun! Sorry I missed it!