My Bloody Valentine (2009) Review
Director: Patrick Lussier
Stars: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith
Newspaper Headline: 6 Still trapped in Valentine’s Day mine collapse! Five minors died, one survived. The mine owner’s son was at fault. The survivor killed the others to conserve his own air, but he’s in a coma.
Harry Warden, the survivor, wakes up. It’s been a year since the accident. He kills everyone in the hospital, with half-bodies all over the place.
Meanwhile, there’s a party in the old mine shaft. Tom, the owner’s son, is nervous about going inside. Tom’s girlfriend almost immediately gets separated from the group and watches a guy get his eye stabbed out. The killer chases her, and she trips over a few bodies on the way out. She watches as another party-goer gets a pickaxe to the face and another gets a shovel through the face. The girl and two friends get away, and the Sheriff saves Tom from the killer. They shoot the killer several times, but he runs back into the mine shaft and vanishes.
TEN Years Later, (about 15 minutes in)
Sarah and Axel have gotten married, and now-Sheriff Axel is having an affair with Megan, who is pregnant with his child. Tom is preparing to sell the mine and has some kind of PTSD.
There’s a couple at the motel making a porno, and the unseen killer kills the man with a pick through the head. The girl and the motel clerk get the pick next. The girl is Irene, who was one of the survivors of the initial attack.
The killer attacks Tom in the mine and kills a worker there.
It turns out that old Harry didn’t die in the mine, the villagers tracked him down and killed him later. His bones, however, are missing. More deaths occur. Tom claims Axel is behind the murders. Axel claims Tom is the guilty one.
Is Tom insane or is he possessed? Or could the killer be… someone else?
Comments:
Lots of obvious 3-D effects, even in 2D. There are several suspects from the beginning who all have a motive, but those get whittled down pretty fast. The “Whodunit” aspect does make this a lot more interesting than a plain serial killer story. Lots of mining puns here… “Be MINE forever.”