Among them are TJ, the mayor’s son who left town some time ago and has recently returned, Sarah, TJ’s former girlfriend, and Axel, Sarah’s new boyfriend. My Bloody Valentine was the subject of much controversy prior to its 1981 release. Considered an example of the low-budget cult films reminiscent of popular slasher films such as Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th(1980), the movie was filmed on location in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia Canada. Sarah Palmer (also known as Sarah Mercer)is a main protagonist who appears in the 1981 and 2009 films My Bloody Valentine and My Bloody Valentine 3D, struggling to deal with her feelings for both Axel Palmer, her current boyfriend, and Tom Hanniger, the son of the mayor and her former love interest. John DunningAndré LinkStephen A. Miller The miner is revealed to be Axel, who faked his demise. 90 min Now, a group of young adults decides to hold another dance, despite warnings. Paul Zaza Playing the harmonica
There are some passing attempts at comic relief, but most of the yuks are inadvertent. [5] Prior to the production's arrival to the mine, the owners cleaned up the location significantly, leaving it described as a "clean and colourful Disneyland-like set. Mihalka was asked to direct a horror-slasher story, presented to Dunning by Stephen Miller in mid-1980, and, after Mihalka agreed to direct, John Beaird was bought in to write the screenplay. Saturday, and the party gets started in the mine’s recreation room. A flashback shows that Axel's father was one of the supervisors. Failing to notice a corpse in the fridge, John grabs some beers and heads back to his girl, Sylvia, only to find her impaled on a shower pipe, while across town, the Chief has a bad feeling. Director Mihalka, cast members Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Helene Udy, and Carl Marotte, composer Paul Zaza and make-up artists Thomas Burman and Ken Diaz are all involved.
My Bloody Valentine does all that. Canada "[25], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, My Bloody Valentine holds a 54% approval rating based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 5.38/10. Finishing their shift, the boys from the Hanniger mine head into town to meet up with their girls. Axel Palmer is the main antagonist of the original 1981 slasher film My Bloody Valentine.
Sarah, Axel, and the mayor's son T.J. are involved in a tense love triangle.
When the woman performs a striptease, the miner pushes her onto a mining pickaxe, killing her. Popular filmmaker Quentin Tarantino called it his all-time favorite slasher film. IMDb rating of 6.2 It is thought that the remaining footage appears to be composed of expository scenes, such as dialogue and other non-violence related material. Follow on Twitter at twitter.com/Dr_Terror or enter your email address below to receive updates. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [13] The budget was approximately $2.3 million. The DVD gives viewers the option to watch the R-rated version of the movie or with the original violent scenes spliced back into the film. The man sticks his pick axe in the wall beside her as she does a strip tease, fondling the man's mask and breathing tubes in a sexual manner. After they leave, the remaining kids finally figure out what’s going on, and flee the party. My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 slasher film released in the wake of the popularity of the slasher genre that had overtaken the 1970s. "[13], The crew kept the identity of the killer a secret to the cast members until the end of production, when the final scene was shot, in order to assure the actors played their parts in an ambiguous manner. This early 80's horror flick is one of the best of the slasher genre.
Unfortunately, there’s an uninvited guest… One guy gets his head rammed into a pot of boiling water, and his heart left behind for the girls to find later. There's a big valentine-party planned in the little coal mining town of Valentine Bluffs, Nova Scotia. He killed the two supervisors who had left their posts the year before, then he cut out their hearts and stuffed them into heart-shaped candy boxes. Dave: Horror Film Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. ( Log Out / Considered an example of the low-budget cult films reminiscent of popular slasher films such as Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th(1980), the movie was filmed on location in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia Canada.
That evening, resident Mabel is murdered by a mining-geared killer in a laundromat, and her heart removed. Horrified, Howard flees. Down below, Mike and Harriet wander off from the others for some alone time, but end up both being impaled on an industrial drill.
Valentine's Day is coming around and the young people of the small mining town of Valentine's BLuffs are organising a party. [38] This version integrates the cut footage back into the film and features two featurettes and optional introductory sequences to the previously missing murder sequences. Murdering with his pickaxeNavigating minesBrute strengthBrawling Unlike the Lionsgate release, Shout! Paul KelmanLori HallierNeil AffleckDon FrancksCynthia DaleAlf Humphreys "[25] However, she conceded that the film's cinematography is "sharp", and the musical score "portentous. [10], Lori Hallier was cast as Sarah, the girlfriend of Axel and ex-girlfriend of T.J.[11] Hallier arrived to the set several weeks after the other actors, as she had prior obligations at the National Theatre School of Canada where she was studying at the time; director Mihalka, intent on casting her in the role, convinced her academic advisors to allow her to finish the semester early in order to appear in the film.
But a Valentine party is held in its place... at the coal mine, and it isn't long before the town's young people begin dying violently. Movies. One of the miners removes her mask and pulls down her overalls.
Undeterred, the kids plan another party, which TJ suggests they hold at the mine. Tommy Whitcomb: It has been suggested that Paramount Pictures was keen to remove the offending footage due to the backlash they had received from releasing Friday the 13th the previous year.
A year afterward, Harry Warden - the only survivor of the accident - retaliated by killing the two supervisors, and leaving a terrifying warning never to hold another Valentine's Day dance. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground.
The production company decided on the Sydney Mines location due to "the exterior [being] a dreary, cold and dusty area [with] no other buildings around it so it looked like it was totally in the middle of nowhere. Cinematography "[2] This resulted in the production team spending an estimated $30,000 to paint portions of the mine to achieve a darker atmosphere, akin to how it had appeared in its original state. "[19], Several reviewers were highly critical of the film's partial financing by the Canadian Film Development Corporation, which used taxed income from Canadian provinces to help fund its production: Among them were John Dodd of the Edmonton Journal, who lambasted the film as a "rip off" of Halloween (1978), adding: "All this perverted gore is brought to you thanks to the financial help of the Canadian Film Development Corp. which uses your own tax money to help greedy, talentless producers make a killing, you should pardon the expression. "[23], Writing for The Atlanta Constitution, Richard Zoglin noted that the film "floats along effortlessly in the current flood of schlock-horror films unleashed by John Carpenter's Halloween.
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