Other than the 3D aspect this movie has absolutely nothing going for it.
I now have two films already on my worst of 2009 list, The Unborn and now My Bloody Valentine. Really there is not a whole lot to the plot. Basically in a small town a mine collasped and killed all of the workers except for one. Everyone blames him for the killings and years later he gets his revenge. He kills many innocent teens down in the mines but ends up getting killed. Now 10 years later everyone has tried to forget what happened on that night. Soon enough people start getting killed by a guy dressed in a miners uniform. Everyone assumes it’s the same guy from before but their are suspicions that it could either be the town sheriff (Kerr Smith) or the guy who was almost killed 10 years ago (Jensen Ackles). No matter who it is the outcome is not a good one for either.
This movie couldn’t even live up to the low hype that was built up for it. I didn’t expect much from this but I thought maybe I would be wrong and this would be a horror movie that actually scared me, I was wrong there. Every performance in this movie was atrocious. Jensen Ackles, Kerr Smith, Jaime King, Besty Rue, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, just everyone gives a really bad performance which is pretty common in horror movies but not for the entire cast. This had a bad story and is not the right movie to bring a date too believe me.
Overall this is definitely better than the garbage that was The Unborn, but this is still one of the worse horror movies to come out and just keeps me thinking will there ever be another good horror movie anytime soon? If studios keep making movies like these then the answer is a definite no.
I do not agree with the review since I have seen both the 1981 original version and the recent 2009 version. I have said that if it was only a 2-D version it would npt have done as well but all in all I believe that the remake revamped the story line so that today’s generations would have a film that is enjoyable. Yet to call the film garabage is pushing it, garbage is films like the remake of “Hills have Eyes” and “Hills have Eyes II” but even if this movie isn’t the best film in this decade, it’s still enjoyable. The actors and actresses are stated in the review but the filmmakers and additional information is not available.
I didn’t call this movie garbage I said it was better than the garbage that was The Unborn. Yes they may have revamped the story for today’s audiences but I don’t fit in with today’s audiences because I have a different taste in movies. This movie just did not work for me on any level and the 3-D in my opinion was just distracting. Horror movies just don’t do it for me like that use to.