Starring: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, and Kerr Smith
Directed by: Patrick Lussier
Written by: Todd Farmer and Zane Smith based on the story by Stephen Miller and script by John Beaird
Production Company: Lionsgate
Release Date: January 16, 2009
I've never been a big fan of 3D movies. I appreciate what they are trying to do, but it seems like more time is allotted for the set-up of shots to have things coming out at the audience than just setting up cool shots, and it can turn predictable. Now, granted, I didn't see My Bloody Valentine
in 3D, and I haven't seen a 3D movie in 3D since Jaws 3
, so maybe 3D has improved and I'd be more impressed. But conversion to flat TV seems to hurt 3D films.
But where the original victims were teenagers trying to return their town to normalcy by celebrating Valentine's Day, the new film focuses on young adults character Tom returning to town following the death of his father in order to sell his inheritance, the Kanniger Mine, on which the town depends. Valentine's Day was less of a focus for this film, just being mentioned more in passing.
When someone in mining gear begins killing people, rumors start circulating that Harry Warden, who had supposedly died in a mine cave in after being pursued by the police during his crime spree, had not actually died in that mine, and he had returned.
The ending does a pretty good job of keeping you guessing who the killer is amongst two main characters and, a little less likely but still out there as a possibility, Harry Warden.
I was puzzled, however, that Valentine's Day wasn't used more. Human hearts removed from bodies and placed in heart shaped candy boxes were a signature in the original, while in this remake it was hardly used. It was easy to forget it was Valentine's Day. And the large collection of Valentine's Day heart boxes, empty, found to incriminate the killer didn't match the few times we found hearts removed. It was more of an after thought. Similar to Axel's mistress Megan being pregnant. Mentioned in one scene and nary mentioned again, even after her death.
In the end I find it to be a less than favorable reimagining, although with some full frontal nudity where the original avoided breasts. It had many promising points, but the final looked more like a jagged connect-the-dots heart with sharp angles rather than smooth curves...except for Betsy Rue, our beautiful, smoothly curved, naked victim.
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