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My Bloody Valentine 3D
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPatrick Lussier
Screenplay byZane Smith
Todd Farmer
John Beaird (1981 screenplay)
Story byStephen Miller
(1981 story)
Produced byJack L. Murray
StarringJensen Ackles
Jaime King
Kerr Smith
Kevin Tighe
CinematographyBrian Pearson
Edited byPatrick Lussier
Cynthia Ludwig
Music byMichael Wandmacher
Production
company
Distributed byLionsgate
Release date
  • January 16, 2009 (2009-01-16)
Running time
101 minutes
CountriesCanada
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14 million[1]
Box office$102.7 million (worldwide)
$21.6 million (domestic DVD sales)[1]

My Bloody Valentine 3D is a 2009 American horror film, and a remake of the 1981 slasher film of the same name. The film was directed and edited by Patrick Lussier, and stars Jensen Ackles, Jaime King and Kerr Smith. The film had a 3D theatrical release;[2] it was released on January 16, 2009 by Lionsgate to generally mixed reviews but nevertheless a box office success. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 19, 2009.

Plot

A cave-in on the north side of a Hanninger mine trapped six miners. Rescue teams found five dead miners and the comatose Harry Warden (Richard John Walters), who survived by killing the other miners with a pickaxe, allowing himself to breathe. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), the mine owner's son, was blamed for the mine disaster because he forgot to vent the methane lines and caused a cave-in, but also Harry Warden for killing the miners.

Tom's father, from whom Tom has been estranged, dies and Tom inherits the mine. Tom returns to town after his father's funeral to sell the mine, having vanished since the incident and it was unknown where he was, since he was devastated by the events and unable to see Axel and Sarah after they had abandoned him in the mine to die. Axel is now sheriff and married to Sarah and they have a son, but he is cheating on her with Megan (Megan Boone), who works with Sarah at Sarah's grocery store.

After Megan and Axel have sex at his family's old house in the woods, Megan gives Axel a Valentine's Day card and a box of candy and tells him that she is pregnant with his child. Meanwhile, at the motel where Tom is staying, Irene is having sex with a local trucker named Frank (Todd Farmer). After they finish, Frank reveals that he has been filming her. Irene goes out completely naked and angry about the events, drawing a gun on him. After he reveals that the gun is empty, she hits him, but he ignores her. Just as he enters the truck, he is impaled with a pickaxe through the head by a man in full miner garb, face completely covered by his mask.

He returns to his office, where he sees a video of the miner following Irene. Axel and his partner Martin talk about how it can't be Warden despite the rumors. Then Axel receives a candy box with Irene's heart inside, just like Warden had done to the nurse's 10 years ago. Meanwhile, Tom is visiting his newly inherited mine. In the mine, 'Warden' traps Tom in a cage while William "Red" Kirkpatrick is calling for Ben, who is an old friend of the Hannigers.

Meanwhile, Sarah is with Megan at the store when 'Warden' arrives. He chases them through the store, but they lock themselves in the office. The window is locked, but Megan finds the key while Sarah is blocking the door with a table. Just as 'Warden' breaks a hole in the door and unlocks it, Megan goes through the window and Sarah, who is right behind her turns around and notices that 'Warden' has disappeared from the office door and quickly tries to pull Megan back into the office,knowing that 'Warden' is going to the outside window, but she's too late as 'Warden' reaches the outside the window and grabs Megan. Sarah runs back through the store and encounters Axel outside.

Tom gives himself away when he points out that the message over Megan's dead body ("Be Mine 4 Ever") was the same as what Megan wrote to Axel in the Valentines card, revealing that he knows Megan is dead which is information only Axel and Sarah knew. Tom begins to hallucinate when what seems to be Warden appears in the mine with them. Tom tries to warn Sarah but Axel points his flashlight into the area that Tom is pointing to and shakes his head no, she tells him that nothing is there. We see rescue teams in the mine, searching for the survivors. One lone rescuer finds Tom, barely conscious and covered in debris and planks of wood. He tells Tom not to worry, help is coming, when Tom suddenly grabs his pickaxe and impales the rescuer through his mask. We then see Sarah and Axel get out, and Axel is taken away in an ambulance while Sarah is taken by Martin. Then a miner holding his injured side is seen exiting the mine. It is revealed to be Tom as he takes off the mask and walks away.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in South Western Pennsylvania, taking advantage of the state's tax incentives for film productions as well as the topographical and architectural versatility of the Pittsburgh Metro area. Filming began on May 11, 2008 in Armstrong County along the Route 28 corridor, in locations including Sprankle's Market in Kittanning, the Ford City police station, and the exterior of the Logansport Mine in Bethel.[3] Kittanning served as main street in the film's fictional town of Harmony. The production spent 13 days filming scenes in the Tour-Ed Mines in the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, a mine that has been out of production since the 1960s and now operates as a museum.[4]

The inside of Valliant's Diner in Ross Township was used as a location for one scene,[5] and a house on Hulton Road in Oakmont, a suburb of Pittsburgh, was also used as a location.[6]

The film was shot entirely digitally in 4K resolution. The filmmakers used the Red One from Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, and the SI-2K Digital Cinema Camera by Silicon Imaging as digital cameras. Max Penner, the film's stereographer, found these lighter and smaller cameras easier to use.[7]

3D aspect

My Bloody Valentine is the first R-rated film to be projected in RealD technology and to have a wide release (1,000 locations) in 3D-enabled theaters.[8][9] The film was also available in 2D for theaters that were not equipped to process digital 3D technology.

Reception

The film received generally mixed to positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 57% of 90 critics gave the film a positive review, with a rating average of 5.8 out of 10.[10] On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 51 based on 11 reviews.[11]

Joe Leydon of Variety said, "director and co-editor Lussier (a frequent Wes Craven collaborator) plays the 3-D gimmick for all it's worth: Everything from tree branches and gun barrels to bloody pickaxes and bloodier body parts appears to jump off the screen. He also makes effective use of the depth-of-field illusion, allowing audiences long views of various chest cavities from which hearts have been rudely ripped. At the very least, the overall tech package is a great deal more impactful than that of the 3-D-lensed Friday the 13th Part III (1982)". He added, in spite of the "state-of-the-art 3-D camera trickery, which helmer Patrick Lussier shamelessly exploits to goose the audience with cheap thrills and full-bore gore, My Bloody Valentine is at heart an unabashedly retro work, reveling in the cliches and conventions of the slasher horror pics that proliferated in the early 1980s".[12]

Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times said, the implemented 3-D technology enables "startling effects, but after a while the minor thrill of the trick is gone. Advances in digital technology have allowed the filmmakers to largely avoid the physical headaches that are perhaps the biggest hallmark of the cyclical attempts at 3-D moviemaking". He added, "wooden performances by forgettable, generic actors -- again, just like in the original -- don't aid in making things any less leaden", concluding My Bloody Valentine 3D is "just good enough to not be annoying".[13]

Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times said, "the creaky screenplay (by Todd Farmer and Zane Smith) is mercilessly at odds with the director's fine sense of pacing. From the moment you duck a flying mandible and gaze, mesmerized, at a severed hand oozing two inches from your nose, you'll be convinced that the extra dimension was worth seeking out. A strange synergy of old and new, My Bloody Valentine 3D blends cutting-edge technology and old-school prosthetics to produce something both familiar and alien: gore you can believe in".[14]

Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly graded the film a C+ and said that it "starts in spectacular fashion. But what really leaps out at you about My Bloody Valentine 3-D is its lack of imagination".[15] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter felt, "While the concept of adding 3-D to the horror genre is hardly new ... Patrick Lussier's film is the most accomplished example. The 3-D effects come fast and furious, rendered with a technical skill and humor that gives this otherwise strictly formulaic slasher picture whatever entertainment value it possesses." He added, "the three leads actually manage to invest their roles with some depth, but the real acting treats come courtesy of veteran character actors Kevin Tighe and Atkins, whose presence provides a comforting bridge to horror films past. Special mention must also be made of supporting actress Betsy Rue, a real trouper who treats the target male audience to one of the longest and most unabashedly gratuitous full-frontal nude scenes in horror film history".[16]

Box office

On its 4-day opening weekend, the film grossed $24.1 million, ranking #3 for the weekend, behind Gran Torino at #2, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop at #1.[17] In its second weekend, the movie grossed estimated $10.1 million, ranking number 6 at the domestic box office.[18] The film grossed $51,545,952 in the United States and Canada, and $49,188,766 in other markets for a worldwide total of $100,734,718.[19]

Home media

My Bloody Valentine 3D was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 19, 2009 and has grossed in excess of $19.7 million,[20] with DVD sales and theater gross revenue totaling over $119.9 million.

Both home release versions have both a standard 2D version and the 3D version on the same disc using seamless branching.[21] However, a special Blu-ray version was also created specifically for online rental chains like Netflix and Blockbuster.[citation needed]

On October 5, 2010, Lionsgate Home Entertainment released My Bloody Valentine 3D on Blu-ray 3D which requires a 3D-capable HDTV, 3D Blu-ray player and 3D glasses. The disc also includes a 2D version of the film and all bonus materials included in the 2D Blu-ray version released after the film's initial theater run.

References

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  2. ^ 'My Bloody Valentine' Moves Dates, Goes 3-D!
  3. ^ Fryer, Mitch (April 30, 2008). "Producers, crew scout area for horror film". Leader Times. Retrieved on January 14, 2008.
  4. ^ Owen, Rob (June 17, 2008). "Film production mines Tour-Ed's realistic setting". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved on January 14, 2008.
  5. ^ Morgan, Kyle (July 12, 2010. "About Valliant's Diner". Valliant's Diner. Retrieved on July 12, 2010.
  6. ^ Usher, Holly (May 22, 2008). "Horror flick to be filmed at house on Hulton Road". YourTwinBoros. Retrieved on January 14, 2008.
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  11. ^ "My Bloody Valentine 3-D (2009): Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  12. ^ Leydon, Joe (January 16, 2009). "My Bloody Valentine". Variety. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
  13. ^ Olsen, Mark (January 17, 2009). "Review: 'My Bloody Valentine 3-D'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
  14. ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette (January 17, 2009). "Watch Out for That Pickax; It's Hurtling From the Screen". The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
  15. ^ Collis, Clark (January 21, 2009). "Movie Review My Bloody Valentine 3-D (2009)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
  16. ^ Scheck, Frank (January 18, 2009). "Film Review: My Bloody Valentine 3-D". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
  17. ^ "Weekend Box Office Results from January 16–19, 2009". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
  18. ^ McClintock, Pamela (January 25, 2009). "'Mall Cop' still tops at box office". Variety. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
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