Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."My Bloody Valentine" (R - 1981 - US)Sub-Genre: SlasherMy Score: 6.2Cast=4 Acting=4 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=5 Scare=6 Jump=7 F/X=7 Blood=8 Twist=6A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead. "Roses are red, violets are blue, one is dead, and so are you." Maybe a lesser known title from those 80's campy slasher flicks, but still one to watch. I didn't think it held up as well as maybe ANOES or ISOYG, but no one can use a pick like this guy...at least not until "Cold Prey". With silly scary nursery rhymes like, "It happened once, it happened twice. Cancel the dance, or it'll happen thrice" and "Beware of having a party at all on Saturday night! You may not live to see daylight!"...you may gag or chuckle a bit. One thing's for sure, the kills do hold up pretty well...Happy Valentine's Day!

'My Bloody Valentine.' A slasher. There's not an awful lot more to say. If you've grown up over recent years and are generally interested in the genre, you'll find that this little offering from 1981 is pretty tame in comparison to what's released today. However, back when 'video nasties' were just taking off, this was pretty strong stuff! A small-time mining town in America has a legend (don't they all?) – this one tells of a miner who went berserk years ago on Valentine's day and killed a bunch of people. Now, several years later – guess what – it looks like he's back.Normally, this is where I say that the cast is made up of oversexed, annoyingly attractive teenagers. But not this time. Here we have oversexed, annoying UGLY teenagers. Don't ask me why (and I promise you that I'm no oil painting!) but this must be the ugliest group of leading actors every assembled to be chopped up by a nut-job with a gas mask and pick axe. I guess we can blame it on the eighties. Or the lack of budget needed to bring bigger (and more physically attractive) stars on board.Yes, one by one our facially-challenged heroes are chopped up in various hideous ways. Nothing too new there, apart from the fact that the death scenes seem a little more violent for the time than your average Friday 13th film. Notice I don't say 'gruesome' – only violent. I mentioned the budget earlier and it seems like they didn't really have enough money for expert make-up and prosthetics needed for the gore. I suppose it's the way it's filmed that makes it so violent. There seems like there's a real sense of nastiness in the deaths.Not that you'll care much about those getting sliced and diced. They really are pretty irritating. If Jar-Jar Binks was a little less computer-generated and a little more eighties then those are the people getting murdered here.Perhaps one thing that the film does have going for it is that you don't actually know who's under the gas mask. In that was it's more akin to the 'Scream' franchise in as much as like a who-done-it.There's not much new here (especially nearly forty years later!), but if you're into the slasher genre in general and like to see where this type of film found its roots, then give this a try. The gore isn't really there and the violence – although strong for the time – has also diminished, the mystery element may make it worth an hour and a half of your time.

This 1981 horror film stars Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Don Francks and Peter Cowper. The town of Valentine Bluffs is about to celebrate Valentine's Day, but is in for a nightmare when a killer repeats gruesome murders that happened 20 years prior. It began during the town's Valentine's dance and 5 mine workers were trapped underground after an accident. Harry Warden (Cowper) was the only survivor who eventually killed the ones responsible for the mishap and was committed after. Soon, The killer warns the town of not having a dance, but takes out the ones that ignore him. Is Harry continuing his killing spree or is it someone else? Kelman plays T.J., Hallier plays his ex-girlfriend, Sarah whom he still loves, Affleck plays her boyfriend, Axel and Francks plays Chief Newby. This isn't a bad 80's slasher flick, but you must watch the uncut version if you're a fan of the genre.

By 1981 the slasher film craze started by John Carpenter's influential "Halloween" could be felt throughout the genre and everyone was jumping on the bandwagon. From independent films to big studios every holiday on the calendar was being used as an excuse to have a crazed killer stalking, usually teenagers. Paramount studios already struck gold with "Friday the 13th" and then moved on to Valentine's Day with this offering. Even though it is essentially the same plot, this one offered up a different setting and more adult characters which would help a lot. Set in the small town of Valentine's Bluff, a mining accident kills a group of men while the town was celebrating a Valentine's Day dance and party. The lone survivor, named Harry Warden (Peter Cowper), warns the town to never have another valentine dance or party, or else. Jump ahead twenty years and guess what? The town is getting ready for a Valentine's Day dance. The Sheriff receives two heart shaped candy boxes with real hearts in them! The party's coordinator Mabel (Patricia Hamilton) is killed (In one of the movie's scariest scenes of serious stalk and slash) and her body is stuffed into a dryer until she is a crispy corpse. The Sheriff and town officials quickly cancel the party. This doesn't stop the group of hard working miners and their girlfriends of having a private party in the mine itself. The party is crashed by an angry killer wearing a gas mask and picks them off in gory fashion mostly by pick ax. It's refreshing to see adult characters instead of the idiot teenagers that usually fill these films. Somehow all of this is a little more believable. Even though they are killed off in the same manner, the film has a realistic feel to it. Add the fact that Director George Mihalka delivers solid suspense, an aggressive killer, some bloody and inventive kills; and My Bloody Valentine turns into everything a slasher film fan can ask for. The mine setting, with its underground tunnels has a closed in look that ads unexpected atmosphere. The killer has a memorable appearance in full miners gear making him one of the more intimidating killers from these types of films. The killer is particularly vicious and this movie has gory scenes that are memorable. Mihalka takes a simple scenario of a girl waiting for her boyfriend to come back with beer and milks it for solid scares which end in a wicked impalement of the girl on a shower head. They die by the numbers but it's the getting there is where the fun lies and this film delivers.