My Bloody Valentine

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Call Number: Blu-ray Horror My
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Horror My	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Horror My	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally released as a motion picture in 1981.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck.
When supervisors abandoned their posts to attend a small town's annual holiday dance, a tragedy claimed the lives of five miners. The sole survivor, Harry Warden, was institutionalized but returned for a vengeful massacre on the disaster's first anniversary. Nineteen years later, the town is gearing up for another Valentine's party. Teen sweethearts T.J. And Sarah and their friend Axel are among the excited partygoers.
Blu-ray, region A, wide screen (1.85:1); requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great Classic Slasher submitted by orangecreamdaydream on October 12, 2024, 3:22pm 80s slashers can kind of be split into two camps - the serious camp and the self-aware camp. As the decade went on, things seemed to become more and more self-aware (See Friday the 13th Part 2 vs. Part 6)(an aside: this is mirrored in Schwarzenegger movies as well, so maybe its something about the 80s in general) and I feel like this campier strain of movie (unfortunately) informs our cultural memory of the 80s slasher. We forget that, as well as being fun and cheesy, these movies were often grim.

My Bloody Valentine is a grim one! Plays it all straight. Something I love about it is how it leans into its particularities. It is unabashedly Canadian! The twenty somethings are playing twenty somethings!

This Scream Factory disc might be the uncut version, which is rad, because the theatrical version is definitely, obviously trimmed. My only complaint about the movie is that the ending is...abrupt. That's all I'll say about it!