Remakes, remakes, remakes abound! My God there is this trend in remakes that I dunno – makes me wonder if there are ANY new ideas out there. I know there are because I actually have a screenplay I’m writing that IS different, new, scary, funny AND interesting! Don’t get me wrong because not all remakes blow chunks. Halloween was tops in my book and Friday the 13th – well – hell yeah.
My Bloody Valentine is a remake from the 80’s of a really crappy Canadian movie. As many know Canadians aren’t known for making great movies in any genre. I don’t know if it’s poor taste or just really lousy judgment but at least we can use their locales to film great movies and TV shows we make here.
Miners have a tough job – it’s a roughneck position and there aren’t many mines still active in the United States. In My Bloody Valentine an accident leads to a cave-in on Valentine’s Day. What happens next is kind of cloudy because a miner goes crazy and kills a bunch of people. He winds up in a coma and then awakens in the hospital. Mr. Deranged Man goes on a killing spree and basically wipes out the entire hospital. It was a very well constructed death scene with some great prosthetics, blood work and the like. I was very impressed by the detail.
So here we are – Valentine’s Day and the little sex-starved children want to go “light it up” and apparently the mine is the place to do it. So the poor bastard that caused the cave-in, also the son of the owner of the mine and Jensen Ackles from Supernatural, gives them access. He’s a bit hesitant about going in let alone being around people that blame him – for good reason. When it came down to it The Miner was busy taking apart the partygoers. He really puts the laughter in slaughter as his pickaxe finds its mark.
A couple people survive the ordeal, the Miner is shot but tracks off down the mine, and ten years later we begin again. Those kids are all grown up. Mine owner is dead and his son ran away. Now he’s returned to sell the mine.
My Bloody Valentine gives you a lot of twists and turns, many great sequences and the acting between Kerr Smith (from Roswell) and Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) was great. Chris Carnel as the miner was foreboding and genuinely scary. This is another remake that far surpasses its original (and hell, it’s in 3D!) although that wasn’t really all that hard – they kind of just had to show up.
If you get the chance to see it in 3D you do it because it’s worth it and Real 3D has come a LOOOOONG way since the red and blue glasses from Jaws 3D. I was pulling off a mighty fine Roy Orbison impersonation and they do make snazzy sunglasses. And if you want to be HRG from Heroes you get down with your bad self. So you get a two-for.. a really well-crafted movie with good scares, great blood scenes, a scary as hell antagonist AND a pair of snazzy shades.
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http://www.mybloodyvalentinein3d.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179891
