My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine, R1 special edition DVD. 1981. The picture quality's great, 16:9 no black bars, the unrated footage which you can watch as part of the film?, that's not so great, but it's still perfectly watchable. Manic miner starts offing the townsfolk just in time for the big valentines day/night dance. Naturally after a few drinks you're going to want a crafty after hours tour of the mine!. Way above average horror high jinx, excellent & bloody fx that make some horror films look tame. A massive thank you for the reviewer(s) for this next bit of info- get the Lionsgate special edition, it's the one with the miner holding the heart shaped chocolate/candy box, the other version, the one with the red thin hand drawn heart on the cover is apparently cut. Run time 90min (not sure if that's with the extra footage). Extras:Bloodlust-My Bloody Valentine & the rise of the slasher film- -Bloodlines, an interactive horror film history- deleted footage with introductions.

Forget the re-make, this is the original and best. It's a "Friday The 13th" style slasher movie set in a small mining town that many years ago suffered a tradgedy concerning miners trapped down below after an explosion on Valentines day. The only survivor was rescued weeks later, completely insane after having to eat the bodies of his co workers to stay alive, and escapes from the looney bin to disappear for years but not before he puts a curse on the town warning them to never celebrate Valentines day again. Present day and guess what?, the local youngsters decide it's time to forget old curses and have a Valentines dance, but get this, they hold it in the mine where all the trouble began. The bodies soon start to litter the place and what you end up with is a great game of cat and mouse deep underground in the spooky tunnels and shafts of the abandoned areas but who is doing the killing?, a copycat killer or has the original fruit cake returned?. This is an excellent horror movie with it's tongue firmly wedged in it's cheek, check out the really awful poems the killer sends his victims in Valentines cards before the big mine climax.

This is a very good presentation of the original My Bloody Valentine. The picture is sharp and the extras are very good. There's a 5.1 DD soundtrack and a original-mono-soundtrack as well. You can watch the film in the pg-like-rated theatrical version, which has nearly no gory scenes at all or in the extended cut with all the famous special effects, which in fact are pretty good. You can also watch the deleted footage with introductions by the film makers. Then there's a not so very interesting 20-min film about the slasher film, which you can watch or just not. There are English and Spanish subtitles as well. The Aspect Ratio is 1.78:1 not: 16:9 - 2.35:1 as wrongly stated. With the original aspect ratio being 1.85 : 1, this is just fine.

Years ago a criminally insane murderer is locked up after being aggressively fuelled by Valentine's Day disappointments. In the present day, as the same festive period approaches, it would appear he's back and rather peeved about things, venting his homicidal frustration on the locals of the mining town where his morbid history lies. A group of resident teens in the same town hold a Valentine's party against the wishes of the local authorities - they try to shut down any celebrations after warning messages turn up (accompanied by a couple of corpses). After the police fail to prevent the party from going ahead, the miner-suited nutcase goes on the rampage, knocking off the teens one by one. Slasher movie that doesn't deviate from the rules (do any of them?). It is pretty well put together, however, and strengthened by a dramatic love triangle at the centre of it all (involving the amazingly nubile Lori Hallier). The teens are typically idiotic (hell, was I that bad?) and generally deserving of what comes to some of them - this is part of the fun with these kinds of movies. The murders are (depending on which version you watch - there are two cuts on the disc) surprisingly brutal for the period, aided by strong gore effects that Tom Savini would have been proud of. Whilst it plods along for the most part setting up its characters and locations, the film's winning card is the mine shaft sequence during the final act of the film. Utilising a genuine mine, the place is scary enough without the stupid teens going down there for a little loving, but then the killer obviously follows them too, leading us to a great showdown preceded by atmospheric wanderings around. Like any good slasher, My Bloody Valentine is not a masterpiece and is confined by the very genre it sits in, but it is one of the better examples and will give you a reasonable evening's viewing. The Blu-ray presents a very surprising image - in full HD (at 1.78:1) this movie looks superb, a lot better than one would have expected. Clarity is excellent, detail is high, and colours bold - definitely the one to go for rather than plain old DVD. Sound does not fair so well and is clearly limited by the period - you get choices of DTS HD surround, or the original mono track (I went for the latter, seeing as this is how the movie was originally screened). You can watch the theatrical cut as it is or with the deleted scenes splice back in. The quality of these shots is a little inferior to the rest of the movie, however, I would urge horror fans to watch this longer cut - it really is a much more gory and potent offering! The disc also comes with an average twenty minute featurette, looking at both My Bloody Valentine movies, along with a few other slashers in a bid to contextualise this one in its genre. The deleted scenes can also be watched separate to the movie. There is in addition a trailer for the film, a Lionsgate promotional section, plus a large text-based feature on the history of horror movies - this is interactive so you can pick and choose different eras/genres to read about. Not quite deserving of the special edition tag, this Blu-ray is nevertheless a great buy for slasher fans and lovers of 80s horror on the strength of its transfer, and bloody uncut status.

There is no way to describe how much I prefer this to the sappy remake. Here, the kills are amazing, the feel is one of insanity and the suspense is an actual thing. Highly recommend.

Favourite horror movie of all time. Still doesn't get enough love.

Very pleased with the purchase and received dvd before the delivery date. Many thanks

Didn't come with slip cover as advertised when I bought it

Au milieu de tous les "slashers" de la période 1978 ("Halloween" initie le genre cette année-là) jusqu'en 1985, cette série B horrifique de 1981 figure largement dans le peloton de tête. Moins renommé que les "Vendredi 13", "Halloween" et "Les griffes de la nuit", il en atteint pourtant le niveau. Bien interprété (bien que sans vedette de premier plan), passionnant et effrayant tout à la fois, avec un décor des plus photogéniques (une mine de charbon), un scénario qui se tient sans être tout à fait original, une fin ouverte... Une vraie réussite!

One of my favourite horror films, has some of the best horror kills made, screens were cut in original showing, but have been added back in this set, well worth to add to your horror collection.

To paraphrase the quote from its director George Mihalka that introduces this release, it is a testament to the work of the producers, the cinematographers, and cast and crew of "My Bloody Valentine" that this film has stood the test of time and has been adored by horror movie fans ever since its release in 1981. To me, one of the key draws of a good slasher film is the use of attractive females in peril, and in that regard "My Bloody Valentine" is a visual delight for the senses. The opening scene is classic, where a gorgeous blond girl with a really hot body and wearing a silky bra suggestively fondles an unknown miner's gas mask tube as he breathes heavily, as if he was making an obscene phone call to her or something. This girl is one of three really beautiful blondes in this movie that always keep my eyes transfixed on the screen every time I watch it. The others are Gretchen (Gina Dick) and of course principle player Sara (Lori Hallier). And the thing is, all these women are 100% Canadian. To me, this movie did for Canada what "Slaughter High" did for Great Britain -- it proved that other parts of the world could produce slasher movies (and hot girls) every bit as choice as their American counterparts. "My Bloody Valentine" is probably the most proudly Canadian slasher flick of all time; all the characters speak with a heavy Canuck drawl (no surprise; it was filmed in parts of Quebec and Nova Scotia) and their favorite brew to down at the local bar is Moosehead Canadian beer (what else?). And the music is provided by Paul Zaza, also a native Canadian, who contributed the excellent score to 1980's "Prom Night" (another Canuck slasher classic). This 2009 Lionsgate version is the definitive release of this film to have, as it features the long shelved footage of explicit gore that the censors snipped out in 1981 for who knows what reason. Seeing the movie with the deleted footage reinserted is like rediscovering it all over again. Yes, the picture quality for the deleted scenes is raw and unpolished, but you have to realize that the film reels had probably sat in some drawer for the last 28 years and may have been periodically taken out to view by its owners during the interim (and who could blame them -- it rules) and thus it has decayed with the inevitable passage of time. I think this actually gives a raw grittiness to the proceedings, something like seeing "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984) (another classic) on DVD with its own cut footage added back in. Yet even before the deleted scenes were made available again, this film has always had a level of class to it that is rarely seen in the slasher genre (hence the reason that even the more tame theatrical cut had long had a sizable cult following) -- it is beautifully photographed, with rich, vibrant color (especially the traditional decor of the small, old fashioned town of Valentine Bluffs, where the story is set). As well, the acting is way above what you would usually find in a slasher movie and even includes a heart-wrenching (no pun intended) scene of bittersweet love, filmed at a lakefront, between leads Lori Hallier and Paul Kelman (as T.J.). Lori lets her hair down in this scene and looks absolutely gorgeous when the breeze by the ocean makes it shimmer. All in all, there will always be a special place in the hearts of slasher movie buffs (and I consider myself one of them) for "My Bloody Valentine." Highly recommended.

Esta película canadiense tiene todos los elementos del género slasher, los cuales encajan a la perfección en la cinta, y aunque no fue un éxito en cines en su momento, hoy en día es más conocida de lo que fue en los 80’s. Después de su limitado paso por cines, fue agarrando status de culto en formato VHS, y posteriormente fue reconocida y presentada para algunos nuevos espectadores cuando salió el remake. Es una pena que ya no hagan películas cómo está. Y aunque esta es una re edición de Shout Factory, es -por mucho- una mejor edición que la lanzada por LionsGate hace algunos años, tiene toneladas de extras además de una excelente remasterizacion de la Unrated Version, aquí cada edición -de cine y unrated- vienen por separado, cada una en un disco. El Blu-ray de Shout Factory tiene idioma en inglés y subtítulo en inglés. NO tiene audio ni subtítulo en español.

ce film n'a pas vieilli d'un pouce et c'est avec plaisir que je me le suis regardé, qualité/prix parfait et rapidité d'envoi au top