Bloody Valentine's Day

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Movie
German title Bloody Valentine's Day
Original title My Bloody Valentine
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1981
length 93 minutes (Director's Cut)
90 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 (unrated)
Spio / JK: Criminally harmless (theatrical version)
Rod
Director George Mihalka
script John Beaird
production John Dunning
André Link
music Paul Zaza
camera Rodney Gibbons
cut Gérald Vansier
Rit Wallis
occupation

Bloody Valentine's Day ( My Bloody Valentine ) is a 1981 Canadian horror thriller .

action

Two decades ago in the small town of Valentine Bluffs, five miners were buried in the tunnels in a methane gas explosion. The two colleagues on duty had left their posts to attend the Valentine's Day ball. After six weeks of digging, a man was found alive who had fed on the corpses of the others and gone mad. His name was Harry Warden. He was sent to a mental hospital. Exactly a year later he came back, murdered the two guards who were in default at the time, and packed their hearts in gift boxes with the warning that they would never hold another Valentine's Day party.

Such a festival is being prepared for the first time in 20 years. Two women are murdered by a masked man with a pickaxe, and more people are said to die if the dance takes place. Police chief Newby and the mayor cancel him, but keep the crimes secret to avoid panic. The mine buddies and their friends are secretly holding a party on February 14th on the site of the mine. Some also go down into the mine. More and more of the exuberant young people fall victim to the unknown. The miner TJ tries to save Sarah from the mine. She is his former girlfriend, but is now with the mining buddy Axel because TJ had left the town for a while and was no longer heard from. There are repeated jealous arguments between TJ and Axel about Sarah's favor. In a fight in the mine, the girl rips the mask off the murderer's face: it's Axel. In a flashback, we learn that Axel is the son of one of the guards who were killed and that he had to witness the murder of his father as a toddler under his bed. TJ and Sarah are able to save themselves when cop Newby arrives with his assistants. He was alerted by miners who had fled the party. He had already learned from a phone call from the institution that Warden died five years ago and therefore someone else must be the perpetrator. Axel finally flees, having gone mad, into an old tunnel that partially collapses.

Reviews

  • Kino.de wrote: “The Canadian horror shocker emerged shortly after John Carpenter 's ' Halloween ' and belongs to the first wave of slasher films of the 80s. [...] Like similar films (' Mother's Day '), the abundant blood effects of the coercive offender provoked rejection by the criticism of the time and resulted in editing. "
  • Cinema described the film as a "classic" of bad taste .
  • In the New York Times wrote Tom Buckley : "Bloody Valentine" can probably not tremble with fear, but it is almost certain that they will writhe, first in annoyance and disgust.

Background information

  • The film was shot from September 22 to November 9, 1980 in the Sydney Mines , in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia).
  • The budget was about 2.3 million Canadian dollars .
  • The film first opened in US cinemas on February 11, 1981, grossing just over $ 5.6 million.
  • It was released in German cinemas on January 29, 1982. VHS cassettes and DVDs were published in German. The film was shown on television both shortened to approx. 84 minutes with an age rating of 16 and over, as well as uncut in the FSK 18 version.
  • The MPAA did not approve the film for theatrical exploitation and first had to be relieved of some violent peaks. All editions on video and DVD included this abridged version. Director George Mihalka, who had an uncut copy of the film, tried with the advent of DVD to get Paramount Pictures to release the film as an uncut Director's Cut , but Paramount refused. It wasn't until Lions Gate Films acquired the rights to the title for a remake that the original was released as a Director's Cut, in a special edition, in January 2009.
  • The Ontario composer Paul Zaza composed the song The Ballad of Harry Warden for the film , which was also included unchanged in the 2009 remake .

Remake

Lions Gate Films released the remake My Bloody Valentine 3D in US theaters on January 16, 2009 . The film started in German cinemas on May 20, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bloody Valentine's Day. kino.de, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bloody Valentine's Day. cinema.de, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Buckley, 'MY BLOODY VALENTINE' , nytimes.com , accessed April 22, 2020
  4. ↑ B-Sides: The Ballad of My Bloody Valentine