My Bloody Valentine (film)

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My Bloody Valentine

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Directed by George Mihalka
Produced by John Dunning
André Link
Stephen Miller
Written by John Beaird
Starring Paul Kelman
Lori Hallier
Neil Affleck
Music by Paul Zaza
Cinematography Rodney Gibbons
Editing by Gérald Vansier
Rit Wallis
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) February 11, 1981
Running time 90 min.
Language English
Budget CAN$2,300,000 (estimated)
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My Bloody Valentine is a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in 1981 in the wake of the popularity of the slasher genre that had overtaken the 1980s. Considered an example of the low-budget cult films reminiscent of popular slasher films such as Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980), the movie was filmed on location in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia Canada.

The movie is also infamous for having had 9 minutes cut by the MPAA due to gore. Though co-producer Dunning has confirmed that the excised footage still exists, attempts to release it have proven difficult as Paramount Pictures has refused to offer an uncut version. The film's taglines are: "Valentine's Day will never be the same again...", "Someone's bound to lose their heart" and "There's more than one way to lose your heart."

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Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a methane gas explosion trapped five miners in a shaft when key members of the crew left early to attend the town valentine's dance. Six weeks later, the sole survivor of the accident, Harry Warden, was rescued; he survived on the flesh of his fallen coworkers and went mad. After a year in an institution, he escaped on valentine's day and cut out the hearts of the guilty crew members, leaving a warning that the same would happen if the town ever again held a Valentine's Day celebration. When a group of young miners and their girlfriends decide that the town has gone without a party long enough, a murderous maniac in mining gear begins dispatching townsfolk in bloody and creative ways.

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Actor Role
Paul Kelman Jessie 'T.J.' Hanniger
Lori Hallier Sarah
Neil Affleck Axel Palmer
Keith Knight Hollis
Alf Humphreys Howard Landers
Cynthia Dale Patty
Helene Udy Sylvia
Rob Stein John
Thomas Kovacs Mike Stavinski
Terry Waterland Harriet
Carl Marotte Dave
Jim Murchison Tommy Whitcomb
Gina Dick Gretchen
Peter Cowper The Miner & Harry Warden
Don Francks Chief Jake Newby

[edit] Popularity

In a March 30, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly, the film was ranked 17 in a list of guilty pleasures, listed among such films as Dawn of the Dead and Escape from New York, and called "the most criminally underappreciated of the [slasher] genre." Popular filmmaker Quentin Tarantino calls it his all-time favorite slasher film [1]

[edit] Remake

Lionsgate is currently shooting a remake of My Bloody Valentine.

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