My Bloody Valentine 3D, 2009
This is an American 3D slasher movie of director and the co-editor Patrick Lussier, and with the writers Zane Smith and Todd Farmer. This is the remake of the Canadian film of 1981 with similar name. The movie concentrates on the dwellers of the little town that was plagued by the serial murderer in a mining gear during Valentine’s Day, who has been thought to be the similar killer who was believed to have passed away a decade prior.
The Cast Lists
Jensen Ackles acted as Tom Hanniger
Megan Boone acted as Megan
Chris Carnel acted as The Miner
Todd Farmer acted as Frank, a Trucker
Jeff Hochendoner acted as “Red” William Kirkpatrick
Marc Macaulay acted as Marc Riggs
Selene Luna acted as Selene
Kerr Smith acted as the Sheriff Axel Palmer
Richard John Walters acted as Harry Warden / A Miner
Tom Atkins acted as the Sheriff Jim Burke
Karen Baum acted as Deputy Ferris
Joy de la Paz acted as Rosa
Edi Gathegi acted as Deputy Martin
Jaime King acted being Sarah Mercer-Palmer
Bingo O’Malley acted as Officer Hinch
Betsy Rue acted as Irene
Kevin Tighe acted as Ben Foley
Story Outline
On Valentine’s Day of 1997, six miners were trapped underground by the explosion at Hanniger mine in a small mining community in Harmony. By the moment the rescuers reached the miners, they saw only the comatose Harry Warden being alive. Further investigation revealed that the Warden murdered the other miners for oxygen conservation. Tom Hanniger, the son of a mine’s owner was blamed for the explosions as he overlook to vent a methane line that caused its fall.
After one year, Warden had get up from his being in a coma and is murdering now as a form of his revenge. He begins by killing many staffs and patients in a hospital where he had been a patient, leaving the victim’s heart inside the chocolate box. While Tom, Sarah, his girlfriend and their friends Axel and Irene, and some other teenager had a party in the mine, the Warden – wearing a gas mask and a mining gear– attacks them with the pickaxe. Axel, Sarah, and Irene, escape but Tom was being left behind together with Warden. The Sheriff Burke arrived and shot Warden before he may kill the harshly Tom, but Warden staggered away deeper in the mine.
After ten years, Tom returned to Harmony right after the death of his father. He was selling the mine that angered Ben Foley, the mine manager. The town’s sheriff now is Axel, who is married Sarah but had been having a love affair with Megan, his coworker. In a motel where Tom had been staying, the masked assailant kills Irene and the two other people. The camera footage from a scene revealed the murderer clothe as a miner, beginning rumors that Warden already returned. Axel took the chocolate box that has the heart of Irene. Meanwhile, Tom reconnected with Sarah and apologized for his 10 year absence.
Writer’s Observation
The movie is the throwback to a maniac serial murderer the eighties but with modern touches. The 3D effects had been fairly good particularly with the pickaxes and the fences. The problem is just the colors were not as good as the 2D edition that is available on DVD/Blu-Ray.
The movie is a pretty average slasher, with the deranged miner with a gas mask and a costume as the protagonist, however, it begins the carnage very quick without much of its buildup except for most kind of tale recap background as when it was the direct sequel, but it is not. It’s never scary because the things happen really fast and because the guy in the miner suit is not that horrifying. As a side message, most of the tale does not take place in the mines. The mystery about who the maniac man behind that mask is enjoyable and it was well offered with the few false leads. However, there is no clear motivation that had offered for that maniac. The finale with the trio was also dramatic and strong.
