My bloody
valentine is a gruesome, heart breaking story about how, because of an incident
20 years before, the youth in the small town called Valentine Bluffs are been
murdered in cold blood by a miner with a pick-axe.
The film is quick to get going, with a
blonde female – who are always the first to die it would seem – been lead on
and stabbed in the back in the opening scene.
The ways in which characters are murdered is
very inventive, with Mabel been tumble-dried and Dave drowned in a pan of boiling
sausages. The special effects team did a surprisingly convincing job with the
makeup and mangled bodies, making Sylvia’s death look very realistic for an 80’s
film, to say she received a pipe through the back of her head. You could see
the spark of life leave her eyes.
But moving away from the killing, the acting
is credible and the relationship between each of the characters is conveyed
well. I felt the casting was appropriate and the actors fit the roles they were
given. I found it amusing how the little love triangle between TJ, Axel and
Sarah brings the two guys together in order to save their love from perilous
danger.
The story of Harry Warden is a dramatic one
and naturally, all the murders that happen in the last half an hour of the film
take place down the very mine where he was trapped for several days. He picks them
off – no pun intended – one by one, with, in my opinion Hollis’ death been the
least realistic. He is shot twice in the head with a nail gun, then somehow
manages to make it back to the others with impaired vision and severe brain
damage along with blood loss from the head, as well as being in terrible agony.
I personally would have just given up and fallen to the ground.
As they start being bumped off, it starts to
become clear who the killer actually is, seen as we are told that Harry Warden
died a few years back, and a particular character dies in such a way that their
body would be impossible to recover. But, right up until that point, it does
keep you guessing. Could it be Harry? Could be Axel? Could it be TJ? Or perhaps
even a random minor – again, no pun intended – character that was just unlucky
in love?
The ending is satisfying and a nice fight scene
where TJ is fighting for his love and his life. But as usual, good prevails and
a completely ineffective and useless officer of the law arrives just in the
nick of time to arrest the villain. However, ‘My Bloody Valentine’ sets it up
perfectly for a sequel by letting their deranged psychopath get away.
Unfortunately, no sequel ever came, which disappointed me. Pretty cutting edge
stuff for the time with a done to death, predictable story, but somehow, it
kept me interested right to the very end. 5 stars!
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