You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another crappy remake.
Posted: Mar 13, 2021 9:29 AM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
1981’s My Bloody Valentine is a good movie. 2009’s My Bloody Valentine 3D stinks out loud. How is that possible? The first was a cheaply made Canadian horror flick made at that moment when the 70s were exhausted but the 80s had yet to fully form and with a villain possessed of quite possibly the most laugh-out-loud preoccupation in the genre’s history. The second was created almost 3 decades later, with all those years of improvements in filmmaking technology and technique to utilize and the successful pattern of its predecessor to follow. How do you so royally screw that up? Imagine if the U.S. government asked a defense contractor to build a new and better version of a P-51 Mustang and what they get is a kite made out of lead. At what point in the process could things go so terribly wrong?
Horror History: MY BLOODY VALENTINE Was Released Back in 1981
Today in horror history, George Mihalka s slasher classic My Bloody Valentine with Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, and Neil Affleck opened in 1981. By Mike Sprague
My Bloody Valentine with Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, and Neil Affleck was released in 1981. John Beaird penned the script. It tells the tale of a small mining town organizing a party for Valentine’s Day. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground. One, Harry Warden, survived, though in a deranged state. Warden is sent to a mental hospital but escapes and murders those he deems responsible for the mine accident. Now people are being brutally murdered again, and the townsfolk suspect that it is the work of Harry Warden.