Ten years later, Tom returns from a mental hospital to sell his dad's mine and finds his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Jaime King) is now married to Axel (now the Sheriff), while Axel is having an affair with checkout girl Megan. The miner starts to kill again on Valentine's Day and all fingers point to Tom.
Despite the tepid script by Todd Farmer, My Bloody Valentine ticks all the boxes when it comes to a good slasher movie. (You can laugh at Kerr Smith talking about how deep his character is on the behind the scenes stuff later).
The 3-D effects don't work in 2-D, but they still place you nicely in the middle of the action purely by the unusual positioning of the camera. Witness a naked girl (and we mean naked) hiding behind a bed frame while the killer thrusts his pick-axe through the bars at her, or the trailer shot of said axe being thrown at a car windscreen. You just wish you could see these shots in proper 3-D as they were intended and not through a red/green blur.
Director Patrick Lussier has been directing trashy, straight-to-DVD horror for years, but at least his post-production experience on Wes Craven's Scream trilogy made him a competent editor. From a technical standpoint, My Bloody Valentine mostly works as a solid blood n' guts movie. The prosthetics are suitably gross and when they're combined with subtle CGI Lussier produces some inventive death scenes.
Even with the best Blu-ray and HD 1080p television the free 3-D glasses won't work. Unfortunately this may put people off 3-D cinema, which is a shame as the two are completely different. To clarify: 3-D cinema glasses work. The free cardboard glasses with this DVD do not, so there's no point buying My Bloody Valentine unless you're happy to sit through the 2-D version.
DVD & Blu-ray Special Features
Audio Commentary with Patrick Lussier and co-writer Todd Farmer
Deep Inside My Bloody Valentine (7 mins)
Sex, Blood and Screams (5 mins)
Deleted Scenes (Blu-ray only)
Gag Reel (Blu-ray only)
- Suitably gross make-up effects
- 2-D version of film included
- Nicely shot with 3-D angles in mind
- For a while it works as a 'Scream' style whodunit
- Dumb script
- Bland performances
- The free 3-D glasses don't work
- Will put people off trying proper 3-D films at the cinema