Valentine, 2001

This is a slasher film of director Jamie Blanks. It is from the novel of similar title by Mr. Tom Savage. This movie follows a crowd of ladies in San Francisco that had been stalked by the murderer wearing that Cupid mask during the days that lead to Valentine’s Day.

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Story Outline

At the junior high school, the St. Valentine’s Day dancing in 1988 in San Francisco, the outcast student, Jeremy Melton, asked the four famous girls to dance. These first three girls, Paige, Shelley, and Lily rejected him cruelly, whereas Kate, the fourth girl, politely responded, “Maybe later”. The rich friend Dorothy accepted Jeremy’s invitation, and then they proceed to kiss at the back of the bleachers. When Joe, the school bully and his friends discover them, Dorothy mistakenly claimed Jeremy attacked her. Then Joe and his friends harshly beat him and then his nose bleed from distress. Jeremy was expelled and was transferred to the reform school with juvenile hall, because of Lily, Paige, Joe, Dorothy, and Shelly, and all testifying to that unwanted sexual advances; then Joe ended up in the mental institution.

After 13 years, Shelley, become a medical student, receive a frightening Valentine’s card and was being attacked by somebody in a Cupid mask and trench coat. Ultimately, Shelley has her throat cut by the killer, and then the killer’s nose bleed as she dies. Then at the funeral of Shelley, Paige, Dorothy, Kate, and were questioned by a detective. Then Dorothy, Paige, and Lily receive frightening Valentine’s cards too, each being signed as “JM” and Kate saw the cupid mask in the elevator inside her apartment.

Meanwhile, Campbell, Dorothy’s boyfriend, lost his apartment and momentarily moves in to her at the mansion of his father. The girls attended the exhibit of Max, Lily’s artist boyfriend and meet Ruthie, the one that accused Campbell of being one con artist. The murderer traps Lily in an exhibit shoots her constantly with arrows until Lily fell into the dumpster and died. Detective Vaughn disclosed that the parents of Jeremy were engulfed in the house fire, and then Kate finds all data about Jeremy’s old personality being erased. As these girls start to believe that it is Jeremy being the killer, Dorothy admitted to Paige and Kate that she lied regarding Jeremy 13 years past to avoid embarrassment.

Writer’s Observation

This slasher packs terror, gory killing, suspense, and beautiful girls. This movie main excitement lies in witnessing what spectacular and new death may be executed by a cruel murderer that seemed to dispatches some of the new victim each few minutes of the runtime. The picture takes restless tension, horror, shocks and takes accent being the suspense and also the terror when a gory murder happens.

It’s all frightening and entertaining, if predictable however, we have watched the previous movie, and also its predictability has redeemed in role by a wonderful protagonists. The movie displays a multihued cinematography by Bota and with adequate music scored by Don Davis. Its motion picture had been professionally directed by Mr. Jamie Blanks, he is a director and a composer. The film is like a psycho-killer genre keen but takes some twisted ending and a decent scare.

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