4/5 More fun than a pick-axe in the face!
  by JJ LoveBeast (The House Beside the Last House on the Edge of Dead End Park)
Old-school, blood n' boobs slasher thrills meets sexy, new-age 3-D technology in one of the most entertaining theatrical experiences I've had in ages.
The 3-D may not be as effective in the home, but even as a 2-D feature, this one is a lot of goofy, gore-soaked, guilty fun that harkens back to the glory days of body-count slash-a-thons.
More remakes should be made with this degree of respect for the source material.

1/5 I Wish No Stars Was An Option...
  by Sean Stark (Denver, CO United States)
This is hands down the absolute worst piece of crap movie I have ever seen...and believe me I have seen a lot of bad films in my time. There is about 3-5 minutes of this movie that are even worth watching and about 3 of those are a fully naked girl running around. (What can I say, that part was enjoyable to watch). If that's not your thing, well, I can't say there's much worth watching except a few super gory shots here and there. Of course, that does not excuse the audacity this film has to suck in new ways and inconceivable ways. Seriously though, there is absolutely nothing good I can say about this movie. The plot is god awful and makes NO sense whatsoever. The majority of the "talent" in the movie are clearly only to make young teenagers swoon by their good looks, the rest must have fallen on hard times and will do anything for a paycheck. I think the makers/distributors of this film assume the viewer is so stupid and shallow they will not even care if it follows any logic because hey, there's some hotties in it! (Shame on you, Lionsgate). Apparently that's what this genre is being reduced to though. Sad times. Please, save yourself some brain cells and avoid this stinker like the plague. I wish I had known before it was too late.

PS The 3-D sucks, the lines are off in every other shot and I finally just switched to regular ol' 2-D.
I Wish No Stars Was An Option... This is hands down the absolute worst piece of crap movie I have ever seen...and believe me I have seen a lot of bad films in my time. There is about 3-5 minutes of this movie that are even worth watching and about 3 of those are a fully naked girl running around. (What can I say, that part was enjoyable to watch). If that's not your thing, well, I can't say there's much worth watching except a few super gory shots here and there. Of course, that does not excuse the audacity this film has to suck in new ways and inconceivable ways. Seriously though, there is absolutely nothing good I can say about this movie. The plot is god awful and makes NO sense whatsoever. The majority of the "talent" in the movie are clearly only to make young teenagers swoon by their good looks, the rest must have fallen on hard times and will do anything for a paycheck. I think the makers/distributors of this film assume the viewer is so stupid and shallow they will not even care if it follows any logic because hey, there's some hotties in it! (Shame on you, Lionsgate). Apparently that's what this genre is being reduced to though. Sad times. Please, save yourself some brain cells and avoid this stinker like the plague. I wish I had known before it was too late.

PS The 3-D sucks, the lines are off in every other shot and I finally just switched to regular ol' 2-D.
clear rating


4/5 better than the original
  by horror fan (U.S.)
I never thought much of the original other than it was a typical cookie-cutter slasher flick, so when I saw the remake, I wasn't expecting much at all. Well, aside from the ending (which I won't spoil) I loved this flick. It was a throwback to '80s slashers. It had great gore, female nudity, and lots of action. I recommend this movie to any '80s slasher fan.

4/5 Excellent 3D on your HD TV
  by rehabber (Cut & Shoot, TX)
One reviewer said there was not any big names in this movie..SORRY but Jensen Ackles from Supernatural is plenty big enough for me. I was truly amazed at the quality of 3D, never thought I would live long enough to see this on a TV. Several people have watched it and I love watching them dodge the pickax..fun. Now I need to find more 3D BD movies. I am going to see Avatar and hope it comes out in 3D BD. If I was just giving a rating on the 3D quality it would have gotten 5 stars, but as a movie in general just a 3, so I split the difference and give it a 4.

2/5 At Least the 3D was Cool
  by Inept Editor (New York, NY)
Not since Friday the 13th Part 3 have I remembered so vividly a 3D horror movie. Now, with the release of a My Bloody Valentine remake in 3D, Lionsgate raises the bar, at least in production value.


When I first heard that My Bloody Valentine was being refilmed, I thought to myself, "Huh?" I had never seen the original, so it took a bit of research to find out what the movie was all about.

Apparently in the original , directed by George Mihalka, a disgruntled miner named Harry Warden(played by Peter Cowper) goes on a killing spree, killing fellow miners by cutting out their hearts. Cutting to present day, a group of teenagers get the bright idea to hold a Valentine's Day party in the mine where the murders took place. It proves to be a fantastic idea, as the party-goers are dispatched one by one. Is Harry Warden back from the dead with his trusty miner's helmet? Possibly. The movie was reminiscient of those good old 80s slasher movies that we all loved. It was filmed in Canada(how about those Canucks?), and had 19 minutes of edited footage that was cut due to excessive gore, which was only included recently in a re-release by Lionsgate.

Now, Harry Warden is back. AGAIN. Lionsgate revisited the sleepy mining town of terror by recreating the movie, but this time in 3D. And that is where the story goes bad.

The original storyline is well intact. We have the flashback of Harry Warden(now played by Rich Walters) going crazy in a hospital a year after the original mining incident, which we never see but are told was a "mining accident". We also don't know why he started killing everybody. We can only guess it has to do with some workers union disagreement. What we do know is that he returns to the mines after leaving the hospital, and happens on a group of teenagers who got the bright idea to hold a Valentine's Day party in the mine where the accident took place. After dispatching many of the teenagers, Harry Warden attacks Tom Hanniger(played by Jensen Ackles), but is held off by the police, who apparently shoot and kill Warden, and Tom is left a gibbering idiot.

Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to take over the mining company after the death of his father(this fact was left out until now) after being in a mental institution. When he arrives, murders begin. Is Harry Warden back from the dead? Probably. Slasher stars never stay down for long(see Jason Voorhees, Freddy Kreuger, Michael Myers, etc.). The town thinks Tom is responsible. Tom isn't so sure(obviously.) The hunt ensues to uncover the truth, before the whole town ends up dead, or the mine is sold to Germans.

The Good: My Bloody Valentine is brutal in the gore factor. It's in 3D, and not like Friday the 13th Part 3. The theater gave us these big Buddy Holly glasses, and I'm glad I kept mine on. When a woman gets half her head severed with a shovel, and the 3D has the head slide forward at you, that's good use of 3D. When a miner throws a pick-axe from fifty yards away straight at the audience, and it sticks into a car's windshield, that's good use of 3D. This movie played the 3D card for every grisly scene, as well as they should. There wasn't much else holding this movie together. Besides the drunken old men playing caricatures of old mining men.

The Bad: Everything else. The storyline was annoyingly vague, which doesn't work too well with a basic slasher movie. It's as if the movie is meant to be watched after seeing the original to get the storyline straight. I hadn't seen the original at the time, so I was stuck. The twist ending made me, and half the theater, throw up their arms in anguish, since it wasn't suspenseful so much as, "So wait, why did this all happen?" Granted, it's a slasher movie, but usually a storyline of "killer on the loose" doesn't have so many scenes that you look back on and scratch your head about.