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Five women are stalked by an unknown assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day. Friday the 13th Prom Night I Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Tom Hanniger Jaime King Sarah Palmer Kerr Smith Axel Palmer Betsy Rue Deputy Martin Tom Atkins Ben Foley Megan Boone Deputy Ferris Joy de la Paz Frank the Trucker Jeff Hochendoner Officer Hinch Liam Rhodes Edit Storyline In the mining town of Harmony, a drilling accident is caused by the son of the owner, Tom Hanniger.
Edit Did You Know? Goofs In Pennsylvania, sheriffs are county elected officials who are agents of the court and have no law enforcement power in any way. You and me both, Hinch. Harry Warden's in a coma. Guess he woke up. Connections Referenced in Slice and Dice: Frequently Asked Questions Q: Was this film released in 3D? What ever happened to the planned "My Bloody Valentine" sequel?
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Top 30 Highest-Grossing Horror Remakes. After his arrest, Grant admitted to strangling his wife and dismembering her body. My Bloody Valentine celebrates the sinister side of romance. The new Review Guidelines have been posted on the Flames Rising website. The Mary Poppins Returns star shares her favorite new movie, and the docuseries she's obsessed with. Regardless of their sordid histories, Grant found Kukla irresistible and he began writing her impassioned love letters — — which Kukla promptly turned over to authorities. New York Daily News — via Newspapers.
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The remaining four try to climb to the top with a ladder, but discover a dead beheaded Howard. While finding their way out, Axel and Patty are killed by the miner. The miner chases T. The miner is revealed to be Axel, who faked his demise. A flashback shows that Axel's father was one of the supervisors. As a child, Axel witnessed Harry Warden murdering his father, which traumatized him. The tunnel begins to collapse from the fight, and traps Axel while Newby and the police arrive to rescue T.
It is revealed that Harry Warden had died five years earlier.
Sarah sees an insane Axel freeing himself from the debris by amputating his trapped arm. Mihalka was asked to direct a horror-slasher story, presented to Dunning by Stephen Miller in mid, and, after Mihalka agreed to direct, John Beaird was bought in to write the screenplay. The film was originally entitled The Secret ; however, the producers decided to change it to My Bloody Valentine , so to overtly reference the holiday serial killer trend [6] with which the slasher genre was becoming increasingly popular, through films such as Black Christmas , Halloween and Friday the 13th 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.
Upon arrival at the town for principal photography, the crew found that the townspeople, unbeknownst to them, had redecorated the mine so to make it more presentable, thus destroying the dark atmosphere that had convinced the production company to base the film there. The cast therefore spent a few days staying in Sydney Mines, encouraged by the director to get a feel for the small-town location.
Mihalka has said since making the movie that the most difficult element of My Bloody Valentine was filming in the mines. Also, due to the methane levels, lighting had to be carefully planned as the number of bulbs that could be safely utilised was limited. Upon its release, My Bloody Valentine received numerous reviews criticizing it for its depiction of violence and gore. Bruce Bailey of the Montreal Gazette noted the film as having an "awkward script," adding: A pickax to the belly, a penny nail through the forehead, a granite drill through the back.
There are some passing attempts at comic relief, but most of the yuks are inadvertent.
My Bloody Valentine does all that. 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 , adding: Ed Blank of the Pittsburgh Press faulted the film's cinematography and mine setting, writing that its "novelty, for the worse as it happens, is that the principal setting is a coal mine where most of the male characters work.
Shooting scenes in the mine, brightened only by the miners' hats, permits Mihalka to play without a full deck. You can't tell what's going on. 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. But it is more restrained — even tasteful — than most.
The camera averts its eyes from much of the blood and gore, and women are treated somewhat better than usual that is, they are generally allowed to keep their clothes on before being dispatched. In a March 30, issue of Entertainment Weekly , the film was ranked 17 in a list of guilty pleasures, listed among such films as Dawn of the Dead and Escape from New York , and called "the most criminally underappreciated of the slasher genre.
In another retrospective assessment by scholar Jim Harper in his book Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies , he notes that the film distinguishes itself from other slashers by moving outside the "typical teen based scenario," instead focusing on a group of twenty-something adults in a working class community, and relying on a notable "atmosphere dread. My Bloody Valentine was significantly censored in North America upon its theatrical release. And, given the amount of respect Hamilton garnered in the community, it appeared as though he might just get away with murder!
But I do love you. Have a good day. But, that meant that Bevel would have to do his own analysis of the evidence. Hamilton was sentenced to life in prison. He claimed she walked outside and that was the last time he saw her. Eventually all eyes turned toward Grant as the main suspect and a search warrant was executed on the Grant family home. It was there that the police found the torso of a woman in the Grant garage.