Director: George Mihalka
Writer: John Beard
Starring: Paul Kelman and Lori Hallier
Body Count: 10
Review: My Bloody Valentine was created to try capture some of the Friday the 13th revenue and generate an entirely new franchise. It didn't work.
But that doesn't mean that the film is bad. In fact, Valentine is a really kick-ass, brutal slasher movie, with blood galore, and lots of cool deaths--for the time (after all, this is still 1981--before the Friday Series started using sleeping bags as weapons). There's also a lot of other cool stuff; a subplot involving a dysfunctional love triangle, a creepy mine setting, and a spooky old man (I think this is the same guy from the bar scene in Pee Wee's Big Adventure) who tells us the legend of the Valentine Bluffs curse.
The ending is obviously there in the hopes that the series will take off as a franchise, but even though no one ever made a My Bloody Valentine 2, this ending is still really effective by leaving the impression that the story is far from over. Just really creepy, or at least I thought so.
