Scream, If you can

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Movie
German title Scream, If you can
Original title Valentine
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Country of production United States ,
Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jamie Blanks
script Donna Powers ,
Wayne Powers ,
Gretchen J. Berg ,
Aaron Harberts
production Dylan Sellers
music Don Davis
camera Rick Bota
cut Steve Mirkovich
occupation

Scream if You Can is a film directed by Jamie Blanks , shot in 2001 in the USA and Australia. The film takes up the typical elements of the classic horror film.

The film's tagline , Love can be so cruel , is mistakenly counted as part of the film's title.

action

Valentine's Day 1988 : Jeremy Melton, a skinny boy, looks for a dance partner at the school ball, but is turned away by everyone. Only chubby Dorothy pays attention to the outsider. The two are discovered smooching under the grandstand of the sports hall. Dorothy claims, out of fear, that Jeremy has messed with her. Then he is portrayed as a pervert and beaten up by everyone. He gets violent nosebleeds, the result of too much excitement. He goes to psychiatry. Meanwhile, his parents die in a fire. The boy later goes to the juvenile prison and is treated there again for psychiatric treatment, as he could never forget that night.

13 years later : Medical student Shelley has a date with what appears to be her rather unpopular husband. Clearly annoyed, she is happy when she has ended the date. She is still going to university because she has her exam the next day and wants to practice dissecting again. But when Shelley realizes that she is not alone in the building, it is already too late. She receives a morbid Valentine's letter that says: "My love for you sprouts while blood rushes out of you". The eerie stranger who has sneaked into the morgue of the university, masked as Cupid (symbolic for love, also for Valentine's Day) cuts Shelley's throat in her hiding place and leaves it bleeding in a body bag when he begins himself bleeding from the nose. The four old school friends Dorothy, Lily, Kate and Paige meet again at their grave.

Valentine's Day - the festival of love. Reason for the four attractive young ladies to have a great party together. But first they all receive a Valentine's card with greetings similar to those in Shelley's letter. The police are investigating at full speed and are looking for Jeremy Melton. But nothing can be found about the former school freak. When the party reaches its climax, there is a power outage. What nobody suspects: The Valentine Angel has sneaked into the party and has already claimed several victims. At the end of the party, Dorothy comes up with the idea that Jeremy has had surgery and could now be Kate's friend Adam. But she rejects her theory and sends Dorothy away. Adam shows up at the party and they argue. Shortly thereafter, Kate narrowly escapes her doom and then meets Adam, who is now also suspected of being a murderer by Kate. However, the murderer, masked as Cupid, appears and is then shot by Adam, who only disguises himself by costuming the corpse of Dorothy and shooting the corpse.

Eventually, Adam (actually Jeremy Melton) calls the police and hugs Kate. Suddenly, blood pouring from Adam's nose drips onto Kate's cheek, which ultimately proves that the Valentine caught on the internet was Jeremy Melton. The words "I love you ... It's always been like this" that Adam uttered also indicate that this is Jeremy Melton, since he has been in. Since February 14, 1988 (or longer) Kate is in love.

Soundtrack

criticism

The film didn't do that well with American critics. An exception was the Los Angeles Times critic , who described the film as a “witty, stylish horror film with an original twist on the ever-reliable revenge theme ” ( A smart, stylish horror picture that offers a fresh twist on the ever-reliable revenge theme ). In contrast, the New York Times reviewer saw nothing new and considered the film "23 Years After Halloween " to be an insult. Both critics, as well as their colleague from the San Francisco Chronicle , praised the performers, with Denise Richards in the LA Times and Jessica Capshaw excluded from the praise in the LA Times.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scream if you can at Metacritic (19 out of 100 points, June 30, 2008)
  2. ↑ "Valentine" seems insulting after what now seems like centuries of watching nubile targets scream and flee - or is it flee and scream? The cast of this movie barely existed when "Halloween" gave these movies a new lease on life 23 years ago […] ; Elvis Mitchell , New York Times February 3, 2001
  3. ↑ SF Chronicle, February 3, 2001